||<>|| = Introduction = Acer Laptop Ubuntu Team : * test, configure, adapt and ease the use of a Acer laptop with a U/KU/XU ... buntu system. = Contact = You can contact us : * mumbly_58 AT yahoo DOT fr *[[https://launchpad.net/people/acer-laptop-ubuntu|ubuntu team page]] = How to contribute = We are waiting for your feed back about the way you use your Acer laptop : * how did you manage to get the wifi work ? * how did you manage to get the 3D graphic card work ? * what problems did you face to install this software or this distribution (Edgy ...) ? * are you using a 64 bits or 32 bits distribution ? * have you found a bug or a "mal-function" in a Dapper, Edgy, or newer ubuntu release ? * have you written a tutorial or documentation about Acer laptop and Ubuntu ? Please let us know ! * ... you can make a translation of a tutorial or documentation ... Please let us know ! = Projects = ## List currently the team's current projects and tasks as well as status and contact persons for each one. Make it easy for new people to know who to ask and where to go to get involved with a specific project. - please visit https://wiki.ubuntu.com/acerlaptop-wifi for news about the '''acerlaptop-wifi''' project which aims at creating and maintaining a .deb package for acer_acpi ... Also, you can visit https://launchpad.net/acerlaptop-wifi/ for package and work details ... '''[UPDATE] : 2007-04-12 - Please see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/105881''' = Tips = '''''september 2006''''' With Edgy knot 3 and Beta, please be sure to put The Option MonitorLayout line in your xorg.conf to get your laptop work and bypass the "blackscreen" problem. {{{ Section "Device" Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon Mobility X700 (RV410)" Driver "ati" Option "MonitorLayout" "LVDS, TMDS" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection}}} '''''avril 2007''''' With Feisty Beta (7.04), when you install, you still have the "black screen" problem. Please update (sudo apt-get update) and it will install a new ati-xorg driver which will do the trick perfectly, without any other configuration (no "Option "MonitorLayout" "LVDS, TMDS" is needed no more !) = Tutorials and docs = '''Network : wifi''' * [[http://www.mumblyworld.info/index.php?2007/04/04/111-wifi-et-portable-acer-aspire-sous-ubuntu-feisty-fawn-704|wifi with bcm43xx-fwcutter Feisty Fawn (7.04)]] (french) * [[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx/Dapper?highlight=%28WifiDocs%2FDriver%29|wifi BCM43xx dapper/Edgy]] * [[http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?id=60870|Wifi bcm43xx-fwcutter Dapper/Edgy (2) (french)]] * [[http://www.s2ii.com/blog/index.php?2006/04/05/78-wifi-sous-ubuntu-dapper-drake-64-bits-avec-un-acer-aspire-5024|Wifi install (french)]] == Individual machine documentation == * [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AcerLaptopUbuntu/1652NWLMi|Acer Aspire 1652 NWLMi]] * [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AcerLaptopUbuntu/Aspire1520|Acer Aspire 1520]] * [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AcerLaptopUbuntu/TimelineX1830T|Acer TimelineX 1830T]] '''Graphic''' * [[http://www.s2ii.com/blog/index.php?2006/09/14/90-installer-xgl-sur-une-ubuntu-606-et-une-carte-ati-radeon-x700-le-retour||XGL install (french)]] * [[http://www.s2ii.com/blog/index.php?2006/10/08/92-aiglx-beryl-carte-ati-x700-mobility-pcie-sous-ubuntu-edgy-eft-beta|AIGLX,|Beryl, Ati Radeon Mobility X700 PCIE on Ubuntu EDGY (beta) (french)]] '''Acer Laptop Testing Teams''' * [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/Acer|Acer laptop testing teams list]] '''More to come ...''' == Comments == Why don't you integrate your laptop howtos with those on LaptopTestingTeam/Acer? -- AzraelNightwalker <> ---- '''Sub-pages :''' <> ---- ---- CategoryUbuntuTeams CategoryLaptop