Acer Timeline 3810T

[miegiel]

Hi, sure, I'll try to help:

Download the alsa-drivers 1.0.21 from here: ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/drive...1.0.21.tar.bz2

Extract them, and to build and install:

cd path/to/extracted/folder
./configure --with-cards=hda-intel
make
sudo make install

Reboot and you should be fine. You may have to install some development tools, like build-essential and so on. If you need further assistance jus tell me, and I'll try to explain a bit better.

Didn't work on my 3810T

[jimmy the saint]

I just wanted to chime in with my 2cents

I downloaded the release candidate a few days ago and have been using it as a live USB since then. I have an 8310 with the SU 9400. It is pretty snappy with Ubuntu's default settings. I like much better than Hardy on my Thinkpad T61.

There is a deal breaker for me, however. The battery life is abysmal. There is a 4 hour difference between the Vista install and Karmic. I got more than 7 hours running Vista at school, working online and browsing the intertubes. I was shocked to see the estimated battery life in Karmic at a little over 3.5 hours. I was more shocked to see that it was actually a little under 3.5 hours doing similar tasks.

I saw a post about this issue a few pages back, and I am aware that there is usually a slight sacrifice, but it has never been like that. Even the Asus 1000HE, with special windows-centric hacks to improve battery life only gave up 2 of the 7 hours. This will not work at all. I have no idea what the deal is, and I will do a little digging, but this has to change before I will even consider Karmic. I spent a lot of money on a laptop specifically for the balance between performance and battery life. I think this needs some attention, so I posted here. I know a lot of people smarter than me are watching this thread, hopefully we can come up with something.

Edit: I forgot to mention the mousepad sensitivity. For me, I have to flip the bird in order to use it. If another finger gets within an inch of the touchpad, the thing goes nuts.

Thanks for listening/reading!

JTS

[iceman]

Jimmy, i'm agree with you in everything. Those Are the same considerations i Made...
It's not acceptable in 2009 to have not battery life and S3...

[schonni]

Didn't work on my 3810T

didn't work for me, too. to the contrary: the possibility to change the input source in alsamixer has gone now. is it possible to change it back?

[miegiel]

didn't work for me, too. to the contrary: the possibility to change the input source in alsamixer has gone now. is it possible to change it back?

I just installed the released karmic. It was time to cleanup my installation anyway. I tried removing it, but it wanted to uninstall (x)ubuntu-desktop too, though you could reinstall the desktop again.

[avilella]

Any particular improvements with the latest version? Anything you had to manually fix?

I just installed the released karmic. It was time to cleanup my installation anyway. I tried removing it, but it wanted to uninstall (x)ubuntu-desktop too, though you could reinstall the desktop again.

[miegiel]

Any particular improvements with the latest version? Anything you had to manually fix?

Now I also don't have bluetooth in my notification area or settings menu (haven't tried to fix it yet). Sound isn't muted after reboot anymore, but that only bugged me in xubuntu. I haven't used the new installation much yet, so I can't say anything about battery life. If you haven't somehow wrecked your karmic (from alpha, beta or rc) there's no reason to reinstall, not that I noticed anyway.

[avilella]

Can you run powertop on batteries and see what is the power consumption in Watts?

Now I also don't have bluetooth in my notification area or settings menu (haven't tried to fix it yet). Sound isn't muted after reboot anymore, but that only bugged me in xubuntu. I haven't used the new installation much yet, so I can't say anything about battery life. If you haven't somehow wrecked your karmic (from alpha, beta or rc) there's no reason to reinstall, not that I noticed anyway.

[miegiel]

Can you run powertop on batteries and see what is the power consumption in Watts?

I never really used powertop, didn't make a significant difference for me. Power use is the same as in the alphas and beta (judging by the mA I'm sucking out of the battery).

[Dan48p]

Hey guys, i just installed 9.10 upgrade option on my laptop. I wanted to note here that all of my external displays are working perfectly.

With both 9.04 and win7 i was unable to get these displays 1440x900 and 1680x1050 to function at native resolution. I used these displays one at a time not all at the same time.

9.10 immediately recognizes the displays and lets me add them in the "displays" option.

This is on a 3810tz (su2700, with intel graphics I believe).

Additionally, the excessive flickering at boot seem to have gone away, though I have only booted up this machine a few times.


dan