Acer users?

[oxf]

Just curious. A question for anyone who uses an Acer PC. Is there any history with Bios bugs when installing Ubuntu or any other Linux distro onto Acers?

[alindgr1]

I have an Acer Aspire and I have never noticed any bugs. Everything works fine, so I have never looked for one. I am using the Lucid RC right now, and I have noticed a couple of error messages, but they have nothing to do with the BIOS, as far as I can tell. I just put them down to normal issues with a Beta or a RC release.

[Странник]

I personally have an Acer Aspire laptop and I have no problems.
Also no problems on the Travelmate as well

[oxf]

I have an Acer Aspire L100.
The reason asked is when I was running Hardy or Jaunty I'd get a "Bios Bug" error flash up when I booted. I was never sure if it had any effect though

I dont get this as such with Karmic but I do get the following error on boot:

Splash: Setting Mode 1152x864 failed
UUSplash: Using mode 1024x768

Not sure if its related but googling this seems to be an issue for some people. Just wondered if its an Acer thing?

[Странник]

I get this, but it is not fatal :

Apr 25 16:17:51 Zone kernel: [ 5.561703] acer-wmi: Acer Laptop ACPI-WMI Extras
Apr 25 16:17:51 Zone kernel: [ 5.562622] acer-wmi: Unable to detect available WMID devices


Edit: I also get the bios bug, but it's harmless

[madjr]

Acer Extensa here

no problems at all from karmic (except few things bit slow because of video driver), but in lucid everything works a lot better

[thegreenblob]

I have an Acer Aspire AM3641-EQ8200A desktop. And Jaunty, Karmic, Arch, and Fedora(11?) all work perfectly on it. I had some sound problems and some boot up problems in Lucid but since it works fine in all of the above, I doubt it's the hardware or anything.

However when I first got it I had some problems installing linux, I forget what the error was but going in to the bios and changing the OS option from "Windows" to "Other" fixed it.

[Gatemaze]

Acer Aspire... no problems...

[The Real Dave]

Acer Aspire T650, runs Ubuntu like a dream :)

[bear24rw]

Acer Revo nettop playing 1080p with vdpau here, no problems at all

[gletob]

I use my mom's Acer Aspire 5517 a lot. It's one of the cheaper one's, so it's no speed demon in Windows but it does great with Ubuntu. The Atheros wifi worked out of the box, as did the Atheros Gigabit Ethernet. (I was surprised to find it had gigabit Ethernet)

The desing quality is good nothing flimsy, good battery life, 2 hours on high performance/max brightness 3.5 on power saving.

Not many complaints, but only 2 usb ports, the DC adapter plug falls out easily, and this is on a lot of computers nowadays but I wish they'd stop trying to fit a numpad on 15 inch laptops, is just doesn't work that well.

I'd recommend them to other's and I'd buy a little bit nicer one myself.

[conradin]

Acer aspire 5570z worst computer Ive ever bought. Nothing to do with linux, acer has lousy hardware. As for the bios, Im pretty sure thats not relevant to the OS except for things like plug and play OS , etc. I do know ACER is famous for hiding things in the bios/ boot process. Like if I type alt+ space, 5 or 6 times on boot I get some other bios control. Thats not in the documentation, I had to call acer to get that.

[factotum218]

Acer Aspire 6530 here. No issues, but doesn't support virtual machines.

[palihapiz]

I get this, but it is not fatal :

Apr 25 16:17:51 Zone kernel: [ 5.561703] acer-wmi: Acer Laptop ACPI-WMI Extras
Apr 25 16:17:51 Zone kernel: [ 5.562622] acer-wmi: Unable to detect available WMID devices


Edit: I also get the bios bug, but it's harmless

i have same problem on aspire one AO532h. lucid remix and lap top version same problem. it is anything can do to fix it?