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TravelMate
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| Model | SUSE Linux Release | Hardware Support | Remark: | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Video | Sound | Network | Bluetooth | Power Management | Other | ||||||||
| 2D | 3D | TVout | Wired | Wireless | |||||||||
| Travelmate 220 | 10.2 | | |||||||||||
| Travelmate 6292 | 10.3 | | I changed manually the xorg configuration to support 3D video. | ||||||||||
| Travelmate 613TXV | 10.0 | | |||||||||||
| Travelmate 800 | 10.0-RC1 | | |||||||||||
| Travelmate 803 | 10.0 | | |||||||||||
| Travelmate 290 | 10.2 | | | using ipw2100 driver | |||||||||
| TravelMate 2310 | 10.0 - 10.2 | using madwifi | acerhk not supported sisctrl for VGA output 3D not supported | ||||||||||
| Travelmate 2350 | 9.3 | | HDD supports udma5 (ATA100), but no matter what use udma2 (ATA33) | ||||||||||
| TravelMate 2410 | 10.0-RC1 | never tested | a little flaky at times | ndiswrapper | Neither 9.2 nor 9.3 could detect the HD, but 10.0-RC installed flawlessly and worked quite well for a year until upgrading to 10.2 | ||||||||
| TravelMate 2410 | 10.2 | not tested | works great | ndiswrapper (Linux driver supplied but requires vendor firmware) | Had to add bcm43xx driver to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist before ndiswrapper would work. | ||||||||
| TravelMate 2413NLMi | 10.1 | | using madwifi | Works like a charm minus minor hiccups. | |||||||||
| TravelMate 2413WLMi | 10.2 | | with madwifi | | Working well out of the box | ||||||||
| TravelMate 2420 | 10.1 | had to choose 3D during installation | detected but not tested | Works beautifully. | |||||||||
| TravelMate 3000 | 10.1 | detected but not tested | Installs and works beautifully. | ||||||||||
| Travelmate 3260 | 10.2 10.3 | | | using ipw3945 driver | works great | ||||||||
| Travelmate 4002LMI | 9.3/10.0 | (With ATI Driver) | Only after fixing buggy DSDT | Modem via smartlink-softmodem | Full Details(German,Suse 9.3) | ||||||||
| Travelmate 4100WMLi | 10.0 | with Driver from ATI | Suspend to Disk Power Button shutdown | 2D only works after install of "official" ATi drivers, until then you can only use Run Level 3. Install possible if you already own one, but not for beginners, avoid buying for Linux use. | |||||||||
| Travelmate 4151 | 10.0 | | I didn't deal with many things but as I think its fully supported .... | ||||||||||
| TravelMate 4152LMi | 10.2 | Seems to work(?) | 3d accel is disabled by default. When you activate it it works fine. | ||||||||||
| Travelmate 4200WMLi | 10.0 | ||||||||||||
| Travelmate 4400WMLi | 10.3 | with Driver from ATI | using acer acpi and broadcom linux module | Suspend to disk and ram is a bit buggy but works | |||||||||
| Travelmate 4600 | 10.0 | (With ATI Driver) | |||||||||||
| Travelmate 4670 | 10.1 | Used add on media for Intel wireless. | Overall this is a very functional laptop, works well with 10.1 and super quick. | ||||||||||
| Travelmate 5612 | 10.2 | for details on power management setup. | |||||||||||
| Travelmate 5623WSMi | 10.3 | See NVidia Suspend HOWTO to configure suspend to HDD | |||||||||||
| Travelmate 8204 | 10.2 | With ATI Driver | ATI Driver has problems when installing. Got with working X.org 6.8, not 7.1... | ||||||||||
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Aspire 1xxx
| Model | SUSE Linux Release | Hardware Support | Remark: | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Video | Sound | Network | Blue tooth | Power Management | Other | ||||||
| 2D | 3D | TVout | Wired | Wireless | |||||||
| Aspire 1362LC | 10.2 | | | | | | Experienced display problems (slowness, etc) after installing openSUSE 10.2. Resolved the issue by performing following steps: 1. Installed the driver for the "S3 Unichrome Pro" graphics card (available here), | ||||
| Aspire 1400 | 10.0-Beta2 | | | | | | You can say: fully supported, I guess the modem will be fixed | ||||
| Aspire 1511LMi | 10.1 | nVidia driver | ndiswrapper | ||||||||
| Aspire 1522WLMi | 10.3 | nVidia driver | Suspend to ram will work with 'nv' driver only | ||||||||
| Aspire 1524WLMi | 10.2 | nVidia driver | |||||||||
| Aspire 1642WLMi | 10.1 | | | | |||||||
| Aspire 1644WLMi | 10.2 | 3D Desktop Effects not working | | | Soft modem Conexant chip.(Major shortcomings in Linux distributions that they did not support soft modems.The modem driver of this chip set is sold by linuxant.com) | ||||||
| Aspire 1681 | 9.3 | | Only after fixing buggy DSDT | Full details | |||||||
| 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 | See below more info | | |||||||||
| Aspire 1690WLMi (DDR2) | 10.2 | (With ATi Driver) | |||||||||
| Aspire 1694WLMi | 10.0 | (With ATi Driver) | See Below | ||||||||
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Aspire >1xxx
| Model | SUSE Linux Release | Hardware Support | Remark: | ||||||||
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| Video | Sound | Network | Blue tooth | Power Management | Other | ||||||
| 2D | 3D | TVout | Wired | Wireless | |||||||
| Aspire 3002 LC | 10.0 | Only after fixing buggy DSDT | |||||||||
| Aspire 3002 LCi | 10.0 | ndiswrapper bcmwl5a.inf | |||||||||
| Aspire 3003 LC | 10.3 | ||||||||||
| Aspire 3003 LMi | 10.0-RC1 | ndiswrapper | Only after fixing buggy DSDT | ||||||||
| Aspire 3012 WTMi | 10.1 | with ipw3945 | |||||||||
| Aspire 3503 WLCi | 10.2 | ||||||||||
| Aspire 3610 | 10.1 | | using madwifi | Had to use the safe graphical mode during installation or the screen skewed. Apart from that, works great! | |||||||
| Aspire 3613WLMi | 10.3 (32bit) | with ndiswrapper | Full DVD-RW support | Everything that was compatible was detected during installation, though the wireless still needed to be configure to use ndiswrapper and now uses eth0 with the LAN port using eth1. For some reason the provided drivers don't work. This laptop also works well when connected to a Digital Projector for presentations. 3D desktop is supported out the box. | |||||||
| Aspire 3624 WXCi | 10.3 | with madwifi | Suspend to RAM Power button shutdown | Modem requires Linuxant driver | Suspend to RAM must be enabled manually. | ||||||
| 11.0 | | Suspend to RAM Power button shutdown | "Just plain works" with openSUSE 11.0. | ||||||||
| Aspire 3680-2682 | 10.3 (x86) 32bit | not yet tested | specify acer as model in sound hardware config | Madwifi 5007eg snapshot | Modem | Despite being marked as having an Atheros AR5BXB63 chip for wireless it appears that the Madwifi snapshot used for the 5007eg chip works perfectly. Use the instructions at the Madwifi site for Atheros 5007eg. Sound hardware must have option model=acer (default is null) which may be configured at install or in YaST after install. | |||||
| Aspire 5002 WLMi | 10.2 (x86) 32bit | not yet tested | Broadcom | ||||||||
