Star Review: Acer Aspire One
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 31st Oct 2008 08:46 UTC
Hardware, Embedded Systems Geeks.com, known for their cheap laptops, sent us the Acer Aspire One for a review. Thom wrote a review of the popular laptop recently, but here's my take on it. Update: After this review went up, and within two hours, I installed Ubuntu 8.10 (time is 4:10 AM here, couldn't sleep until I had Ubuntu in there). Using this very nice tutorial, I have everything up and running.
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xD card reader working w/ Ubuntu?
by bosco_bearbank on Fri 31st Oct 2008 11:27 UTC
bosco_bearbank
Member since:
2005-10-12

Eugenia - You claimed you have everything (emphasis mine) up and running with Ubuntu 8.10. Does that include the xD card reader capabilities of the right-hand slot? My experience is that the Linpus kernel is the only kernel with the appropriate drivers.

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Eugenia Member since:
2005-06-28

I tried some cards on both slots, and it worked, but only after following the tutorial to modify fstab AND boot with the SD cards in. If you boot Ubuntu with them on the slot, then it mounts them.

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bogomipz Member since:
2005-07-11

Then surely it is possible to get it working after boot as well. You probably just need to modprobe one or two kernel modules. I'm not an Ubuntu user myself, though.

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