Feedback on Acer laptop w. Linux

[Noam Rathaus]

Hi Steve,

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 7:28 AM, Steve Litt<slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 29 August 2009 16:52:49 Boaz Rymland wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>> Can anyone provide feedback on the following Acer laptop, or any other
>> Acer Linux based laptops? (Interestingly, searching for "linux" word in
>> laptop section in zap.co.il shows almost exclusively only Acer results:
>> http://zap.co.il/models.aspx?sog=C-PCLaptop&keyword=linux).
>
> My Acer Aspire 5102WLMi runs Ubuntu 64 bit 9.04 very well.
>
>> In specific
>> - how well all hardware goodies work in linux - power
>> management/scaling,
>
> I never noticed, but I know the hard disk stops spinning and the screen goes
> black after a few minutes.
>
>> wifi,
>
> Beautifully. Atheros is a thing of beauty.
>
>> bluetooth, card reader,
>
> I never use those so I can't say.
>
>> X
>
> Beautifully with one exception. It does NOT work with most video projectors in
> X. Neither does my other Linux laptop. The fonts are very nice on the LCD
> screen.



Can you give more details, this is a crucial feature... what doesn't
work exactly?



>
>> , etc etc...
>
> Sound works very nicely. Flash specific sites work just fine. I haven't used the
> built in webcam.
>
> SteveT
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