Acer Aspire D270

[Phil]

I have acquired one of these:

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Acer-Aspire-One-D270-26Dbb-Netbook.73534.0.html

Sorry to say it does not work with PClinuxOS KDE versions. I tried both 32 and 64 bit KDE editions on a live usb. In both cases I had to input a vga screen setting, and after some 20 minutes it got to the end of booting and stopped. No particular reason why, it would not boot. I surmise it has some weird inter internals which are mostly unsupported.

I heard the green maya distro worked:

Green with Mr & Mrs worked well, but a glitch with language default meant anything installed had it interface in a weird non-english language.

Green maya main is ok and have been running it. Wireless, screen, sound are ok.

Mic is an issue and I cannot get it to work. Fixes below did not work for me:

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sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

I added these two lines at the end of the conf file then saved it
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
options snd-hda-intel model=acer

alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
options snd-hda-intel model=acer-aspire

options snd_hda_intel model=laptop
options snd-hda-intel position_fix=1 enable=yes

 Re: Acer Aspire Mic Fix?
I don't know if this will work for you but
1. I installed pavucontrol
2. then opened Applications-> Sound & Video-> PulseAudio Volume Control.
3. I then clicked on the "input devices" tab.
4. I unlocked the sliders by clicking on the little lock icon.
5. I moved the right slider all the way to the left (muted) and the left slider I adjusted as needed. Works perfect without tweaking the system.
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Overall a nice portable machine, works with the green one, mic does not work.

CARE-I upgraded the ram, see youtube. What a pain. Slightly bent the keyboard breaking it out, and the rear cover does not return to exactly as it was. Changing the ram itself was easy, getting there poor. It runs nicely with 2 Gigs.

Hopefully internals for the machine will get better support and maybe next year will retry PClinuxOS on it.

[sling-shot]

Congratulations on your acquisition.

Do not give up on getting PCLinuxOS to run on this machine. Try with an older kernel and a newer kernel and see if that makes a difference. (You may have to spin mylivecd from an existing installation for this I guess.)

Can you get a command prompt?

LiveUSB has an option for safe boot or something. Try that.

Please do not give up

[Yankee]

I'd try a PCL LXDE-mini.    Most people would say Acer
is very easy to install, configure, etc..   I'd suspect your
KDE live usb has a bad byte or two in it somewhere.
I always start with a completely deleted and recreated
usb stick.      Perhaps the usb stick is old.

regards,

FF

[Just17]

I would be inclined to check the MD5sum of the squash file on the USB device against a know good file from a confirmed ISO.

It should eliminate some glitch in coying the file to the USB .....

[atolboo]

...In both cases I had to input a vga screen setting, and ....

Here are my remarks about the 1024x600 screen settings.
And I guess they are also valid for the Acer.

[Phil]

OK FF,

Downloaded LXDE full, md5 good, usb known to work with other distros.

10:15 Default
....10:32 stop 17 usb optical mice detected, all the same. removed usb mouse.

10:33 Default
11:00 Setting hostname localhost OK (Give up)

11:00 Safe Boot
11:03 fails, blank screen

11:06 Video safe
11:37 Setting hostname localhost OK (Give up)

This result is the same as for KDE versions. They would not load. In its defense Intel have not been forthcoming with linux drivers for this device, so will eventually be reverse engineered. Try again in a few months.

[Tuxfriend]

You need the Cedarview driver from Intel. Unfortunately, only Ubuntu builds are available. Without the driver, you can't set the screen brightness and speed when playing movies/youtube stuff is painfully slow and CPU load at 100 %.

[Phil]

Additional:

Booted another atom machine with the usb drive. Booted quickly and as expected alsa sound did not work.
Existing mini itx atom 1.8 runs KDE32 quite nicely. Alsa does not work, missing drivers. I installed oss sound from source to fix that issue.

Intel is no friend of linux, or realtec for that matter. I always expect issues with those names. AMD seems to work without problems with linux.

[Yankee]

This result is the same as for KDE versions. They would not load. In its defense Intel have not been forthcoming with linux drivers for this device, so will eventually be reverse engineered. Try again in a few months.

Hi,

Well I'm convinced, I guess.   Could you list your specs similar to
mine below ?    There's a few of those Acer's on sale at Target, Kmart,
etc..    Would help so we know exactly what to stay away from.
Best thing is to bring a full install on a usb stick to the store and
really check it.

THX

FF

[Phil]

Hi FF,

Anything recent atom wise from intel is suspect, Cedar Trail is the issue. The machine runs ok with green maya, allegedly the orange one, and the fed one.
So its recent, works with the green one bar mic and card reader, and in that respect is ok. Upgrading the ram is a pain as you are not meant to. See youtube.

The Gigabyte board issue is realtek and it is ok with oss. If I installed drivers from realtec it might also work, not tested.

Conclusion - stick to AMD and ARM.


Acer D270:
(Note Cedar Trail has no official Intel linux drivers)

Windows® 7 Starter - Intel Atom Processor N2600 (1.60GHz, 1MB L2 cache) - 2GB DDR3 SDRAM - 320GB hard drive - 10.1" TFT LCD display (1024 x 600) - Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3650 - Mobile Intel NM10 Express chipset - webcam - multigesture touchpad - 802.11b/g/n WLAN - 10/100 LAN - multi-in-1 card reader - HDMI® - USB - 6-cell battery - 1-year limited warranty. Color: espresso black

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Gigabyte 1.8 Atom GA-D525TUD :
(Note the realtec audio, perhaps alsa drivers on site, I used oss from outside repos)

CPU   

    Built in with an Intel® Dual-core Atom™ D525 processor (1.8 GHz) (Note 1)
    1M L2 cache

Chipset   

    Intel® NM10

Memory   

    2 x 1.5V DDR3 DIMM sockets supporting up to 4 GB of system memory (Note 2)
    Support for DDR3 800 MHz memory modules
(I have 2GB)

HD I cannot remember, maybe 250GB

(Go to GIGABYTE's website for the latest supported memory speeds and memory modules.)
Audio   

    Realtek ALC888B/ALC889 codec
    High Definition Audio
    2/4/5.1/7.1-channel (Note 3)

LAN   

    1 x Realtek RTL8111E chip (10/100/1000 Mbit)

Expansion Slots   

    1 x PCI slot

[Yankee]

Anything recent atom wise from intel is suspect, Cedar Trail is the issue.

Thanks a bunch, I see what you mean.    Mine's a Diamondville, 32 bit.

[loudog]

in the case of my new acer (aquired early spring) the problem was in the bios. i had to set the network boot as the first option, hd, external dev etc. if it was not then it would hang at the mouse stage during boot leaving me with a blank screen. it still does this even with the latest kernel if the bios boot order is not correct. be sure the boot from network is enabled. it will give a short network boot error then continue. give this a try.

[Serj]

In our repo latest drivers for the Intel platform updated in 2011.
The only one I think that they are obsolete?
The drivers for the NVIDIA and ATI are up to date.
I wonder what prevents update the drivers for Intel?

[Phil]

Hi Serj,

"I wonder what prevents update the drivers for Intel?"

Intel. Intel does not like playing with linux.

[bicol_willem]

Hi Serj,

"I wonder what prevents update the drivers for Intel?"

Intel. Intel does not like playing with linux.

Right, buy as less Intel as can be ...