Acer AO721-3574 - works?

[sbraz]

well.... I managed to blow up the video.... man it is tiring fighting with video in linux.....

i understand, i've fixed things since i got this lovely laptop!

anyway, if you are stuck in text mode as i was months ago, try running this script from superuser (i've copied this from a script i've used when i was trying to fix this damn ati driver... i was rebooting like 1000 times/day lol):

/usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh  # (if it exists)
apt-get remove -y --purge fglrx*
apt-get remove -y --purge xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-radeon
apt-get install -y xserver-xorg-video-ati
apt-get install -y --reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri xserver-xorg-core
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

okay, you now should be able to boot and start the X server.

now to install fglrx, open a terminal and type "sudo -i" to get superuser privileges:
"cd /*wherever you have downloaded the ati .run file*/"
"./ati-driver-installer-11-2-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/maverick" OR "--buildpkg Ubuntu/lucid" ... depends on your distro.
"dpkg -i *.deb"

if there are no obvious errors the drivers are installed.

i don't know if it's optional or not but another command would be
"aticonfig --initial". i run this in the past, i don't know if it's necessary.

please note that you CAN select the single user runlevel called "recovery" in grub2 when booting to gain root access in case of hard-crashes caused by the video driver.

i hope this helps.

[OldGaf]

i understand, i've fixed things since i got this lovely laptop!

anyway, if you are stuck in text mode as i was months ago, try running this script from superuser (i've copied this from a script i've used when i was trying to fix this damn ati driver... i was rebooting like 1000 times/day lol):

/usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh  # (if it exists)
apt-get remove -y --purge fglrx*
apt-get remove -y --purge xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-radeon
apt-get install -y xserver-xorg-video-ati
apt-get install -y --reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri xserver-xorg-core
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

okay, you now should be able to boot and start the X server.

now to install fglrx, open a terminal and type "sudo -i" to get superuser privileges:
"cd /*wherever you have downloaded the ati .run file*/"
"./ati-driver-installer-11-2-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/maverick" OR "--buildpkg Ubuntu/lucid" ... depends on your distro.
"dpkg -i *.deb"

if there are no obvious errors the drivers are installed.

i don't know if it's optional or not but another command would be
"aticonfig --initial". i run this in the past, i don't know if it's necessary.

please note that you CAN select the single user runlevel called "recovery" in grub2 when booting to gain root access in case of hard-crashes caused by the video driver.

i hope this helps.

Wow... thanks for the help!
I did not read this until after I had installed 10.10 .... which is working VERY well so far... I did not have to do anything "extra" and everything is working.....

Still have the same issue with the bottom of the screen when running some applications in full screen mode tho (did not have the issue with opensuse).

I will just live with it for now. This nice little netbook has become my main computer.

[OldGaf]

Actually had two little tweaks... one was the KDM screen was nasty if I logged out, the other was Dolphin would show the home folder as empty until I did a refresh.

Both fixes:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1205382

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1702106