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  1. #21
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    Re: Acer Aspire 3935

    Quote Originally Posted by piruvato View Post
    thanks mjcritchie, I tried to do but I crashed GRUB, could you please post the exact solition you did??

    thaks in advance
    No problem. Are you talking about fixing the brightness, or the flash support?

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    Re: Acer Aspire 3935

    About the brigthness problem, thanks mjcritchie

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    Re: Acer Aspire 3935

    OK, this is what I did, based on the information here: http://swiss.ubuntuforums.org/showth...1217421&page=3

    Open up a terminal window and type:

    Code:
    gksudo gedit /etc/default/grub
    You may have to enter your administrator password.

    That should open up a text file in gedit. Look for the lines that look a bit like this:

    GRUB_DEFAULT=0
    #GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
    GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=false
    GRUB_TIMEOUT=3
    GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
    GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset acpi_backlight=vendor"
    GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=" quiet"

    The line that I've put in bold is the one I changed. I can't remember what the default value was, but if you copy and paste what I've got above, you should be fine.

    Save and close the gedit window.

    Back in your terminal type:

    Code:
    sudo update-grub
    This should update the changes you've made to grub.

    That's it!

    Let me know if it works

  4. #24
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    Re: Acer Aspire 3935

    Ok, I did exactly what you post, and now screen brightness works well adjusting xbacklight on the console but not directly on keyboard. Perhaps is due to the fact I'm using KDE 4, but this is enough for me.

    Thank-you very much for your help.

    P.D. I will look forward for the solution of the other issues and if I find something i will let you kown.

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    Re: Acer Aspire 3935

    I'm glad it, sort of, worked!

    Yes, I should have mentioned that I'm on Ubuntu 9.10. I suppose things are a bit different on Kubuntu.

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    Re: Acer Aspire 3935

    I had 9.10 running fine on my laptop (upgraded from 9.04) until the speakers died and I sent it back for fixing - Acer returned it to me with new speakers and HDD and Vista installed.

    Reinstalled 9.10 from DVD and now no sound and also no hardware keys for volume / bluetooth / wifi etc. Any ideas?

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    Re: Acer Aspire 3935

    Quote Originally Posted by madturkey View Post
    I had 9.10 running fine on my laptop (upgraded from 9.04) until the speakers died and I sent it back for fixing - Acer returned it to me with new speakers and HDD and Vista installed.

    Reinstalled 9.10 from DVD and now no sound and also no hardware keys for volume / bluetooth / wifi etc. Any ideas?
    Don't know if it's relevant, but take a look at post #62 on this thread.

  8. #28
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    Re: Acer Aspire 3935

    Hi,
    did someone tried the 10.04 beta?
    how much time do you get from the standard battery (just surfing the web, and doing light stuff)?

    Thank you

  9. #29
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    Re: Acer Aspire 3935

    Currently got 10.04 installed. Haven't really noticed any improvement in the battery life.
    Can manage three hours at a push I reckon.

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    Re: Acer Aspire 3935

    Argh. Recently the fan has been running non-stop, even though the CPU temperature never seems to go above 40°C.

    I've tried various solutions posted on these forums, but to no avail. Can anyone help?

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