Ubuntu 7.10 on a Acer Aspire 5315 Gemstone

[Moey]

Thanks for your response.

I am also having one more problem. When it trys to install Ubuntu off the cd, it spits out the error "cannot access tty". After doing some google work, I think my CD may have an error, so im re-downloading the iso. Does anyone have any more insight on this?

[monte48lowes]

Thanks for the help with the sound Mike. Now I have everything working on my cheap Wal-mart special. I am using kubuntu gutsy, so some of the items were different, but I have found this thread very helpful.

Someone asked about the touch pad... it sucks in vista as well. I think it's just the way it's built.

Mike

[iffydonatello]

Thanks everyone for all your help. After trying and trying and...well you get it, I wasn't able to get the sound to work. I did everything you told me to Mike. After doing all that, I got the Gstreamer message when trying to use the volume controller. I decided to see if there were anything else out there about the sound card in this laptop and I found this post:

yep this one

And it it worked right away! Anyway thanks for all the help the last few days of struggle. I learned a ton about ubuntu, because of this problem. And to think I was about to reinstall Vista! Thanks again all

[gcastell]

Mike,

I've the instruction on that thread and it didn't work for me, can you please tell me which of all drivers did you use? and did you use the version 1.49 for ndiswrapper?

The first time I install it I was able to see the wireless networks but I was unable to connect, then I decided to start over and I reinstall gutsy follow the instruction and it seems that the problem is that the hardware is not being initialized because I can't see it using lspci, any idea?

Thanks for all your help, I am new to Ubuntu and since I installed it successfully in an old laptop I thought it will be just as easy on this new laptop.. not so far

Originally Posted by KriKit Here's what I did to get the following missing features for my cheap Walmart Asus 5315-2153 to work on Ubuntu. Enabling Wireless these directions worked for me: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=512828 Enabling Sound follow the directions in this link https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HdaIntelSoundHowto 1. When the above directions ask you to edit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base to add the model add the following to the last line of the file: options snd-hda-intel model=acer 2. Save then restart. Enabling Visual Effects use the following link: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...3&postcount=20. 1. run sudo gedit /usr/bin/compiz 2. find and comment string T="$T 8086:2982 8086:2992 8086:29a2 8086:2a02 8086:2a12" # intel 965 by adding # in front of the line 3. Goto 'System' > 'Preferences' > 'Appearance', Choose 'Visual Effects' and select 'Extra' *Please note it appears that enabling Visual Effects will cause video playback issues, Totem, VLC, and other media players kept crashing immediately until I disabled Visual Effects* I love this little laptop! It doesn't run hot on my lap, the design doesn't say "steal me", it runs quite, the monitors bright, and it feels like it could take a spill from a drop.

[mikeserv]

Iffy -

Sweet! That set of instructions worked? That looks much easier than all the **** I went through... Man, I wish I had tried that instead...

G -

I had the same problem. The first time I installed I was on the verge of getting wireless to work when, in my ignorance, I screwed something up royally (though I can't remember off hand what it was). So I installed again, and, unlike the first time I installed, I didn't receive any Atheros HAL (the drivers that Ubuntu erroneously tries to use to control our WIFI) messages. As it turned out, the card wasn't showing up in lspci, either - not even the wrong Atheros AR5006 it tried to install the first time. After installing ndiswrapper and trying to get it to work, the system still wouldn't recognize my card.

But, as they say, the third time is the charm. I say this because the third time I installed Ubuntu it did try the HAL drivers and I was able to install ndiswrapper (yes, version 1.49, along with the latest version of net5211.inf), and, this having been my third try, I was experienced enough to keep it running right.

So, while I know my saying "reinstall" sounds like a cop-out, I'm only telling you to do what I did. The truth is it did seem awfully weird to me that Ubuntu would see my wireless card only some of the time, but that seems to be what happened.

-Mike

[bboypoprocks]

i followed the directions from the link above to solve my sound problem and got cut short

poprocks@poprocks-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install build-essential ncurses-dev gettext
[sudo] password for poprocks:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package ncurses-dev

i've tried multiple other sound "remedies" and always recieve the same feedback, packages missing. whats up with that? where could i find them?

also tryed
E: Couldn't find package libncurses5-dev

[mikeserv]

bobby:

I think you need to make sure that you have all of your sources checked. If you're using Gutsy (which you should be) go to System > Administration > Software Sources and check all boxes, especially "Source Code."

Everyone:

I lost my sound today. I received an update that included "linux-headers-yadayadayada" after which I had to restart. Upon restart, I realized that my volume icon was back to the "Mute" position and when I tried to unmute it I received the old "No sound card" message. So I went through monte's instructions above (post #101) in Section F and only had to make it to the first restart before I heard the Ubuntu drums.

-Mike

[awang44]

I still could not get the sound card to work.

when I do "cat /proc/asound/cards"
it tells me " no sound card"

seems like I have to activate the card somehow.

[mikeserv]

Awang:

When you press the "Vol +" and "Vol -" buttons on the keyboard do you see anything on the screen?

-Mike

[mikeserv]

Compiz -

I got it working - but not the same way that other guy did. I did this:

1.

sudo mkdir ~/.config/compiz
sudo touch ~/.config/compiz/compiz-manager
echo "SKIP_CHECKS=yes" | sudo tee -a ~/.config/compiz/compiz-manager

2. And then, in order to make sure video still worked I ran (with ALT+F2) the program gstreamer-properties. I clicked on the Video tab and, I chose X Windows System (No Xv) for my Default Output plugin.

I will note that I had to use this for both users on the laptop.

-Mike