Acer Travelmate 5520 problem

[yemu]

hi,
i tried installing ubuntu feisty (both 32 and 64 bit) and installer fails just after the first screen, after choosing Start or Install Ubuntu. It shows info like "Kernel panic" and reports some info about acpi problem (I can't remember the exact message because I don't have the notebook right now with me)
does anyone has any idea is it possible to install Ubuntu on this laptop?
thanks for any help
yemu

[koshari]

could you try booting with the no acpi option?

[yemu]

i don't know haven't tried it
how can I do it?

[yemu]

i managed to boot with acpi off, and install using alternate cd, but unfortunately it seems that travelmate 5520 is really not supported in linux

wired networking doesn't work - it uses marvell chipset which is not yet supported by sky2 module (it's 88e8071 i think)

display doesn't work either - i i don't know if it's supported by vesa, i think it should work with proprietary ati driver, but as my network connetcion doesn't work i can't install this driver

wireless may work with bcm43xx driver but there's no firmware available, so it doesn't and again since i don't have working internet connection, i can't install

ahh, and of course acpi doesn't work, but that's obvious

but, i was able to get some sound of this laptop, don't know anything about microphone,camera and other things like card reader or modem

i can say that i've also tried opensuse 10.2, but the install cd hangs at the beginning, even with acpi off...it seems that ubuntu is better

so unfortunately this notebook for now will be using vista

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ps. do you think it's worth trying if gutsy will work better?

[flodins]

I've also TravellMate 5520 Feisty 7.04 and this what i do:

-Wireless

Installed with ndiswrapper from windows drivers. (GUI for ndiswrapper is ndisgtk)

-LAN

Drivers from Marvell.com

-Display x1250
Vesa not support, Use vga if you want but everything will by in 320x280 (BIG)
When you've LAN or WLAN this is no problem.

I dont know how to even check the Crystal Eye camera. Maybe someone help?

SD/xD etc. controller is working
Sound is working but in alsa I've only "General"(i gues, becouse I have polish language) and "PCM"

ACPI not work with Feisty 2.6.20-16 (cpu freq scaling, battery monitor, etc.)

In Gutsy 2.6.22 Ubuntu started without option "acpi=off" but Gutsy is for now REALY unstable.

I saw somewhere "howto" install 2.6.22 in Feisty but I losted link.

P.S. Sorry for my english (:

[Sophisto]

Yemu! How did you manage to boot with the acpi off? (im struggling)

Many thanks

[aropupu]

Sorry to bump this up, I'm having trouble with installing drivers downloaded from Marvell.com

I followed the readme until I was supposed to
./install.sh
which didn't work at all. All I got was
.install.sh: 72: Syntax error: "(" unexpected

Yes, I'm new with Ubuntu. I hope that I will soon get rid of MS

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5520G
X2 TL-58
Marvell 88e8071
Ubuntu Feisty

[Sophisto]

Hello Arupupu!

I would recomend installing the wlan drivers first in order to get internet access. Then everything else gets much easier. Ive been working with my travelmate 5520 over the weekend and everything works perfectly now (apart from acpi). Even Compiz works brilliantly which is really cool. I used this guide for the wlan https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...er/Ndiswrapper and I used this link for the windows drivers http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/s...os=228&lang=en and its the bcmwl5.sys and bcmwl5.inf you want.

Let me know if you have any more problems!

[flodins]

Originally Posted by aropupu Sorry to bump this up, I'm having trouble with installing drivers downloaded from Marvell.com I followed the readme until I was supposed to ./install.sh which didn't work at all. All I got was .install.sh: 72: Syntax error: "(" unexpected Yes, I'm new with Ubuntu. I hope that I will soon get rid of MS --- 5520G X2 TL-58 Marvell 88e8071 Ubuntu Feisty

open in gedit/kedit file install.sh and change #!/bin/sh to #!/bin/bash

[Sophisto]

Flodins, did you have to recompile the kernel to get the drivers to work or did you just install it and load the module?