Re: Acer Turion laptops
On (27/07/05 12:09), Frederik Schueler wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 08:34:56AM +0530, Mahesh T. Pai wrote:
> > Anybody knows what is required to install Debian AMD64 on on Acer
> > laptops with Turion processor?
> >
> > A friend has been asking me for help; and will be doing it tomorrow; I
> > do not want to be embarassed if the installation fails. :-)
>
> I have an acer wmli5024 and hardware support is in pretty bad shape:
>
> ACPI is a mess (no battery status! (great for a laptop) nor thermal,
> only AC and buttons)
>
> the keyboard starts working after a few key strokes
>
> the touchpad is only recognised after rmmodding and modprobing psmouse
> again
>
> the 2.6.8 based installer did not recognise the ati chipset, thus no UDMA
> (formatting 40G took one hour, installation was painfully slow with long
> disk sync intervals)
>
> the ati X700 is not recognised by XFree86 4.3, you have to mess with
> proprietary drivers - or use latest Xorg from unstable (no 3D
> acceleration then, though).
>
>
> In summary this thing was a mispurchase, the first and last time I bought
> something ATI based.
Well my partner has a 2003WLMi (Centrino) and I've got a 1524WLMi
(AMD64) and they are both running 'sid'; most things work except for
those I haven't got around to configuring. Have you tried running
Ubuntu or something similar on it?
Regards
Clive
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