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in Edgy (current stable)?

in Feisty (current development)?

Installation works?

Yes (Ubiquity)

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Hardware Information

Screen & Monitors

Device

Works?

Bug #

in Edgy (current stable)?

in Feisty (current development)?

Screen

Yes (32-bit color)

Untested

Correct resolution?

Yes (1280x800)

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Correct refresh rate?

Yes (60Hz)

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3D Acceleration

Yes (Intel 915GM)

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External monitor works?

Untested

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External monitor - mirrors

Untested

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External monitor - extend desktop

Untested

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Power Management

Battery detected?

Yes

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Hibernates?

Yes (Flawless)

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Sleep

Yes (Flawless)

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Dim monitor on battery

NO

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Blank monitor on inactivity

Yes (DPMI)

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Lid Close

Yes (Flawless)

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Cpu frequency scaling

Yes (Manually add 'p4-clockmod' to /etc/modules)

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Sound

Sound works?

Yes

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Correct volume?

Yes

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Hardware volume switch

Yes

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Headphone jack

Yes

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Mic jack

Yes

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Networking

Wired NIC

Yes

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Wireless NIC

Yes (Atheros AR5BMB5)

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PCMCIA NIC

Untested

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Firewire

N/A

N/A

Bluetooth

N/A

N/A

Modem

Untested

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Infrared

N/A

N/A

Touchpad & Mice

Touchpad

Yes

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Touchpad - Doubletap = double click

Yes

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Touchpad - Scroll down side

Yes

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Touchpad - turned off while typing

Yes (Manually install 'syndaemon')

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External mouse - USB

Yes

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External mouse - Serial

N/A

N/A

Additional Hardware

Fingerprint reader

N/A

N/A

CD/DVD drive

Yes (CD/DVD Burner is Flawless)

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PCMCIA cards

Untested

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Parallel Ports

N/A

N/A

Card reader(s)

N/A

N/A

Function and other keys

Fn key

Operation

Keycode

Works?

Bug #

in Edgy (current stable)?

in Feisty (current development)?

+ F1

Ubuntu Help Centre

Yes

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+ F2

Acer Proprietary Program

e026 (dmesg)

NO

Untested

+ F3

Acer Proprietary Program

e027 (dmesg)

NO

Untested

+ F4

Sleep

Yes

Untested

+ F5

External Monitor

Untested

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+ F6

Turn Off LCD Backlight

Yes

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+ F7

Turn Off Touchscreen

Yes

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+ F8

Mute Sound

Yes

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+ F9

N/A

N/A

N/A

+ F10

N/A

N/A

N/A

+ F11

Numlock

Yes

Untested

+ F12

Scroll Lock

Yes

Untested

+ Arrow Up

Volume Up

Yes

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+ Arrow Down

Voume Down

Yes

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+ Arrow Right

LCD Brightness Up

Yes

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+ Arrow Left

LCD Brightness Down

Yes

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+ Home

Play/Pause

Yes (Totem Xine)

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+ Page Up

Stop

NO (Totem Xine)

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+ Page Down

Previous Track

NO (Totem Xine)

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+ End

Next Track

NO (Totem Xine)

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Other special keys

Key

Operation

Keycode

Works?

Bug #

in Edgy (current stable)?

in Feisty (current development)?

Bluetooth Switch on Front

Turn Bluetooth ON/OFF

e058 (dmesg)

Bluetooth N/A

Bluetooth N/A

Wireless Switch on Front

Turn Wireless ON/OFF

e055 (dmesg)

NO

Untested

Mail Button

Launch Default E-Mail Client

Yes

Untested

Web Button

Launch Default Web Browser

Yes

Untested

"E" Button

Launch Acer Proprietary Program

NO

Untested

"P" Button

Launch Acer Proprietary Program

NO

Untested

Euro Symbol near Arrow Keys

Display Euro Symbol

e033 (dmesg)

NO

Untested

Dollar Symbol near Arrow Keys

Display Dollar Symbol

e034 (dmesg)

NO

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