I am going to continue using this notebook for a while, and if things go well I will most likely replace my existing Aspire V5 with it. Suspend/Resume works (obviously, since the Fn-Sleep key works). The Fn-keys for audio up/down/mute, brightness up/down/off, Sleep and clickpad off all work. The Broadcom WiFi adapter is a minor pain, but all you have to do is load the 'broadcom-wl' driver and it then comes up and works ok. The clickpad works ok as long as you are willing to two-finger tap to get a right-click, and tap-and-drag rather than click-and-drag. UEFI boot was no problem, even with Secure Boot enabled. Installing Linux on this system was dead easy for the three distributions I have tried so far - openSuSE 13.2, Fedora 21 Beta and Ubuntu 14.10. The temperature seems fine, I never noticed it getting significantly warm at all. Because it has no cooling fan, it really is amazingly quiet - just about the only noise is the disk access. Having most of the ports and connections on the back is actually nice, it keeps the power cord and wired network cable out of the way, while still having one USB port and the SD card slot on the side for easy access.īased on my work with it for about a week now, I would guess that battery life will be a bit more than four hours of my "normal use". The clickpad is nearly enough by itself to rule it out for me, but not quite, thankfully. I actually like this sub-notebook quite a bit, despite it's several significant flaws and drawbacks. Hooray! So now everything is working on this nice new notebook, with all three of the Linux distributions that I have loaded. I repeated essentially the same procedure for Fedora 21, this time adding the RPMFusion repository and then adding the 'broadcom-wl' driver. That's more bother than I would like, but at least it is working now. When you install that it will also select and install the necessary dependencies, and when that finished the WiFi adapter was working. Once that is done, go to YaST/Software Management, search for 'broadcom-wl' and select that for installation. The place to get commonly used "extras" for openSuSE is the packman repository, which can easily be added to the active repository list by going to YaST/Software Repositories/Add, selecting Community Repositories, and then choosing the Packman Repository. So it's time to go back and look at them to see if I can get wireless going. Now, if I recall correctly from my previous systems with Broadcom adapters, this driver that Ubuntu calls "STA" is known on other distribusions as the "Broadcom WL" driver. I removed the ASUS USB adapter, connected to my wi-fi network via the Broadcom adapter, and everything was working just fine. I moved that item to the top of the priority list, crossed my fingers and rebooted. I didn't recall seeing that entry when I was in the Boot menu the first time. There was nothing about "openSuSE" in the list, but there was a strange new entry for "HDD: WDE WD5000LPVX-22VOTTO", which is absolutely as clear as mud. On the 'Boot' page, there is a 'Boot priority order ' list, and "Windows Boot Manager" was right at the top of that list. I rebooted again, and this time went into BIOS setup (F2). Sure enough, the boot order had been changed back to have Windows Boot Manager first. Then I checked the boot configuration again. I rebooted and used F12 to get Boot Select, then selected openSuSE from there, and it came up ok. ARRRRGGGHHHH! NO! Acer doesn't do this kind of garbage, HP/Compaq does! I have two or three other Acer laptops around here, and the boot configuration is perfectly stable on them! It was correct, with "opensuse-secureboot" defined and first in the boot sequence list. The best VR headsets right now (and they're not just from Meta)Īfter the installation process completed, and before I rebooted, I checked the UEFI boot configuration ( efibootmgr -v).
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