Re: Acer Turion laptops

["Tim T." <tim.timmerman@gmail.com>]

On 8/17/05, Frederik Schueler <fs@lowpingbastards.de> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> a short update on the acer wmli5024:
> 
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 12:09:51PM +0200, Frederik Schueler wrote:
> > ACPI is a mess (no battery status! (great for a laptop) nor thermal,
> > only AC and buttons)
> 
> battery status works with 2.6.12.5 and the latest acpi patch found at
> http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/lenb/acpi/patches/release/2.6.12/acpi-20050729-2.6.12.patch.bz2
> 
> and temperatures too.
> 
> > the keyboard starts working after a few key strokes
> 
> one stroke, and it is recognised (with 2.6.12.5+acpi)
> 
> > the touchpad is only recognised after rmmodding and modprobing psmouse
> > again
> 
> problem still present.
> 
> best regards
> Frederik Schueler
> 

hi Frederik,
 I;'ve tried this kernel version and the patch.. without any luck:
still no battery
(This on an ACER 5024WLMi, by the way.. what irritates me is that I just booted
 from the Ubuntu live CD, and did see the battery.. 

Would you be so kind as to post or mail your kernel configuration ? 

Also: the Ubuntu distribution has a 1280x800 resolution on this
hardware, which  I can't seem to reproduce (At least, not with the
modern Xfree config.. ) Could some one give me a pointer to a working
configuration ? (I used to be able to compute modelines by hand. Don't
see anywhere I can put a modeline these days.)

Thanks in advance

  TimT.