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    Re: Acer Timeline 3810T

    Quote Originally Posted by muadnu View Post
    I'm considering buying a 3810T, and there's one thing I'm not sure about from all the posts (maybe it's there and I missed it). How does the touchpad work? Do the multitouch functions work? In particular, is there any way to get vertical scrolling working?
    Vertical Scroll works out of the box. It can be done by dragging your finger on the right hand side (I originally assumed that it doesn't have one since there's no markings). Touchpad works fine and I don't see myself using the multi-touch functions (There's a way to enable this on X.org). There's a little annoyance though, the button for enabling/disabling the touchpad doesn't work yet on 2.6.30. My USB mouse and touchpad is enabled at the same time but it doesn't hinder my user experience though.

    As for the BIOS, I dual-booted mine with Windows 7 RC to play some old school games. Flashing BIOS in windows was a breeze.

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    Re: Acer Timeline 3810T

    I already wrote about this in another post, but I think this is the right place.

    I bought the acer Timeline 4810T and not work the CD/DVD recorder.

    Recognized but when I insert a cd or dvd says there is no media.
    This is the dmesg output

    [ 20.210145] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
    [ 20.210190] sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
    [ 20.212379] scsi 4:0:0:0: CD-ROM TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-U633A AC01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
    [ 20.217927] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
    [ 20.217931] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
    [ 20.218017] sr 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
    [ 20.218057] sr 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5
    [ 20.218702] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
    [ 20.218721] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: PCI INT D -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
    [ 20.218736] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: setting latency timer to 64
    [ 20.218740] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: EHCI Host Controller
    [ 20.218801] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1

    When I insert a cd / dvd does not recognize that there is one in the recorder.

    and this when I trying to mount it manually

    me@me-laptop:~$ sudo mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom0
    [sudo] password for me:
    montar: no se encontro medio en /dev/sr0
    me@me-laptop:~$ sudo mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0
    montar: no se encontro medio en /dev/sr0 [no media found]

    Windows works properly, it recognizes the disk and reads and writes well.

    Sorry for my horrible English.
    Last edited by mopay; July 13th, 2009 at 06:29 AM.

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    Re: Acer Timeline 3810T

    Okay, I need some help.

    I Bought this laptop a few days ago and with the help of this thread I have got pretty much everything I want working. Not suspend and resume but that can wait for now.

    My specs are

    Acer Timeline 3810T core 2 solo
    Ubuntu 9.0.4
    Result of uname -a "Linux linuxbox 2.6.28-13-server #45-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 30 20:51:10 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux"

    My problem is that whenever I use a video media player, say for instance mplayer or vlc, they are fine playing at the default resolution for that video, as soon as I maximise or move the original video around the screen with any sort of pace, my gnome session shows a few crazy colors (like the number of colors has gone down) and then blows up and restarts at the login.

    I have tried various things. Using Gnome, xfce, fluxbox, but still the same result.

    I renamed my home directory and created a fresh one just to see if that had anything to do with it same result.

    I can't even ctrl-alt-f[1-8] to a console because it does this freezing thing until I come back to the f7 console.

    It has only happened when I use video, I have gone crazy with compiz doing the effect where you zoom in and out to show all desktops and all sorts of things that will put the processor under stress but that didn't cause the problem to happen.

    So, before I drive myself crazy does anyone know why this might be happening? Maybe the server Kernel perhaps? Not sure. I am going to give the generic kernel a try and see if that changes anything, although I won't have my 4 GB of RAM available to me.

    Anyway, like I said, anyone can shed some light on this I would love to hear it. In the mean time I will try the generic kernel and see what that does.

    Thanks

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    Re: Acer Timeline 3810T

    So quick update/answer to my own post, using generic kernel did fix things.

    Now does anyone know how I can get my 4GB of ram back?

    Also does anyone know why the server kernel did that? It would be good to know.

    Quote Originally Posted by pmaciver View Post
    Okay, I need some help.

    I Bought this laptop a few days ago and with the help of this thread I have got pretty much everything I want working. Not suspend and resume but that can wait for now.

    My specs are

    Acer Timeline 3810T core 2 solo
    Ubuntu 9.0.4
    Result of uname -a "Linux linuxbox 2.6.28-13-server #45-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 30 20:51:10 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux"

    My problem is that whenever I use a video media player, say for instance mplayer or vlc, they are fine playing at the default resolution for that video, as soon as I maximise or move the original video around the screen with any sort of pace, my gnome session shows a few crazy colors (like the number of colors has gone down) and then blows up and restarts at the login.

    I have tried various things. Using Gnome, xfce, fluxbox, but still the same result.

    I renamed my home directory and created a fresh one just to see if that had anything to do with it same result.

    I can't even ctrl-alt-f[1-8] to a console because it does this freezing thing until I come back to the f7 console.

    It has only happened when I use video, I have gone crazy with compiz doing the effect where you zoom in and out to show all desktops and all sorts of things that will put the processor under stress but that didn't cause the problem to happen.

    So, before I drive myself crazy does anyone know why this might be happening? Maybe the server Kernel perhaps? Not sure. I am going to give the generic kernel a try and see if that changes anything, although I won't have my 4 GB of RAM available to me.

    Anyway, like I said, anyone can shed some light on this I would love to hear it. In the mean time I will try the generic kernel and see what that does.

    Thanks

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    Re: Acer Timeline 3810T

    Hello Pmaciver,

    The first thing to do would be to boot into the right kernel if you want suspend. If you do not care about suspend...Well I am not sure to be honest. You can install a 64 bit OS which will recognize the 4G of RAM or you can try and enable PAE in the kernel. Ideally, we would be able to get you into the 2.6.30 kernel (Suspend works in this kernel) as well as having the OS recognize the 4G of RAM. Unfortunately I have never dealt with PAE or 4G of RAM on Ubuntu so I cannot really advise on that one =/

    If you were to go with the 64 bit Ubuntu install, you can get the 4G of RAM as well as suspend functionality you would want the below.

    Code:
    $ wget -c http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.30/linux-headers-2.6.30-020630-generic_2.6.30-020630_amd64.deb http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.30/linux-headers-2.6.30-020630_2.6.30-020630_all.deb http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.30/linux-image-2.6.30-020630-generic_2.6.30-020630_amd64.deb
    $ sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-2.6.30-020630-generic_2.6.30-020630_amd64.deb linux-headers-2.6.30-020630_2.6.30-020630_all.deb linux-image-2.6.30-020630-generic_2.6.30-020630_amd64.deb
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    Re: Acer Timeline 3810T

    Thanks.

    I may give this a go tomorrow, if I can remember what turned me away from 64 bit kernels in the first place and if the reason is still valid.

    Thanks again.

    Quote Originally Posted by 2point0 View Post
    Hello Pmaciver,

    The first thing to do would be to boot into the right kernel if you want suspend. If you do not care about suspend...Well I am not sure to be honest. You can install a 64 bit OS which will recognize the 4G of RAM or you can try and enable PAE in the kernel. Ideally, we would be able to get you into the 2.6.30 kernel (Suspend works in this kernel) as well as having the OS recognize the 4G of RAM. Unfortunately I have never dealt with PAE or 4G of RAM on Ubuntu so I cannot really advise on that one =/

    If you were to go with the 64 bit Ubuntu install, you can get the 4G of RAM as well as suspend functionality you would want the below.

    Code:
    $ wget -c http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.30/linux-headers-2.6.30-020630-generic_2.6.30-020630_amd64.deb http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.30/linux-headers-2.6.30-020630_2.6.30-020630_all.deb http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.30/linux-image-2.6.30-020630-generic_2.6.30-020630_amd64.deb
    $ sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-2.6.30-020630-generic_2.6.30-020630_amd64.deb linux-headers-2.6.30-020630_2.6.30-020630_all.deb linux-image-2.6.30-020630-generic_2.6.30-020630_amd64.deb

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    Re: Acer Timeline 3810T

    I just installed 9.10 alpha 2 on my 3810t (Intel SSD version), and almost everything I tested worked out of the box - SATA (AHCI mode), LAN, WLAN, sound, FN (only brightness tested), video (INCLUDING external display - just connect and go System -> Pref -> Display, automatically detected and works amazingly), enabling and disabling touchpad (yes, I can disable it and re-enable it and disable it... all I want).

    I installed it alongside Vista (12GB vista recovery, ~30GB vista, ~35GB 9.10). Had to do "sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install ubiquity ubiquity-frontend-gtk ubiquity-ubuntu-artwork" inside the Live CD environment as per the instructions here - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...er/+bug/385995 to install GRUB 2. After that the installation worked smoothly.

    My only problem right now is resuming from suspend. It powers off instead. I've tried both the 2.6.30 and 2.6.31 kernels in the 9.10 repository, and both 1.04 and 1.08 BIOSes.

    Any ideas?

    Battery is also a little short compared to Vista (Ubuntu says 6:30 on full charge), but I think I wasn't comparing at equal screen brightness, and I have no idea if Ubuntu's estimation is accurate (didn't actually time it). But that's of a bit lesser concern for me.

    At least it's good to know that our laptops will work (at least almost) out of the box when October comes around .

    EDIT: btw, I installed using my USB drive (unetbootin).
    Last edited by cyberfish; July 14th, 2009 at 01:37 PM.

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    Re: Acer Timeline 3810T

    Quote Originally Posted by gotosk View Post
    How can I update my BIOS under Ubuntu? BIOS file on Acer website are executable file for Windows. For updating, I think I should run into DOS first, and use a usb stick, run flash.bat. Oops,It's a lot work to do... -_-
    http://www.netbooktech.com/tag/acer-...-instructions/

    Except use the proper BIOS update. Make sure to select "Live CD Only"

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    Re: Acer Timeline 3810T

    I have being trying to get resume from suspend work for the last few days (unloading various modules) without success. There's no any mentioning of the failed resumes either in /var/log/kern.log.

    I don't really want to switch to 9.04, though. Since everything else just works so perfectly with 9.10, and I don't even know if the resume issue is fixed in 9.04.

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    Re: Acer Timeline 3810T

    I am running Ubuntu 9.04 64bit version (dual-boot with Vista) on 3810t Core 2 Solo with BIOS 1.08 and the main problem remaining is the shutdown when trying to resume from suspend (hibernation works). I had to use the kernel option libata.force=noncq to be able to boot to the Linux. KVM also complains during the boot that support for it is disable from BIOS. Battery life in Ubuntu under light load with everything in powersave mode was ~6.5 hours and in Vista 32bit >8 hours. I got everything else working in Jaunty with a little tweaking and in Vista everything works out of the box.

    The resume from suspend not working is very annoying because the wakeup from hibernation takes much longer. Hopefully we can find the solution to it soon. Apart from that I am a happy owner.

    Kari

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