Acer Aspire 5101 Turion 64

[Nigel Ridley]

Myriam Schweingruber wrote:
> Le Samedi, 3. Mars 2007, Nigel Ridley a écrit :
>> Joan Tur wrote:
>>> Es Divendres, 2 de Març de 2007, en Nigel Ridley va escriure:
>>> | I checked on the web but couldn't find much in English :-( about
>>> | installing Linux on an Acer Aspire 5101 laptop (AMD Turion 64).
>>> |
>>> | Anybody had any joy in installing *ubuntu (or have any info about any
>>> | Linux distro) on this machine.
>>>
>>> At http://tuxmobil.org/acer.html you'll find a few 51xx entries (5100,
>>> 5102 and 5112), that will probably match your hardware.
>>>
>>> Hope that helps  ;)
>> Thanks but I had already checked out what was there and, apart from a
>> French 'link' (which, as far as I could tell, had nothing to do with the
>> Acer laptop) there wasn't any other useful information.
> 
> Oh but it is related: the link points to a Blog so you have to search the 
> archives :-)
> 
> I can resume it for you: everything worked fine, except:
> 
> integratedOrbicam doesn't work (but keep in mind that this is the case for 
> _most_ of the integrated webcams as the manufacturer only provides drivers 
> for Windows, so it does not depend on the laptop manufacturer alone. Expect 
> similar problems with Lenovo). Check the forums for this, there is a french 
> report about managing to make it work for 30 seconds here: 
> http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?id=84203
> 
> - integrated cardreader 5in1 doesn't work (which very much surprises me as 
> usually this is not reported elsewhere, I for example use an external 
> cardreader 5in1 and never had any problems to mount it)
> 
> Keep in mind that until this date, there is not a single manufacturer who 
> optimises all its hardware for Linux. So expect drawbacks everywhere with 
> isolated hardware, Lenovo is not better than the other ones. And especially 
> with newer laptops you should not be surprised to have to do a lot of 
> searching in the forums.
> 
> BTW, do you really need an AMD64 processor? Stick with Intel, especially also 
> for the graphic cards as they are the only ones to provide free 3D drivers.
> 
> Greets, Myriam
> 

Thanks Myriam,

That is encouraging :-)

I already have a desktop AMD64 and don't miss 'Flash' much at all.
The reason that I was considering the Acer is that the price is really good but I 
will keep in mind what you said about Intel.

I'm not in a hurry as I intend to wait until Feisty Fawn is released - it's meant 
to have better support for laptops.

Blessings,

Nigel

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