AcerAspire5024WLMi
Contact: bmhm
- Brand: Acer
- Make : Acer
- Model: Aspire 5024 WLMi
- Website: www.acer.de
- S/N: n/a
Known Issues
Current Issues
none!
Archived Issues
With Kernel 2.6.17-x the first keystroke won't respond. However, it seems to be fixed since kernel 2.6.18, so this won't occure in upcoming releases anymore.
After resuming from hibernate, the screen may stay blank. This is because of the buggy ATI-drivers. Use a driver version which is equal or higher than 8.34.3
System Info
bios-version:V1.18 system-manufactor:Acer system-product-name:Aspire 5020 system-version:-1
Hardware details
|
in Edgy 6.10 |
in Feisty 7.04 |
in 9.04 Jaunty |
Installation works? |
Yes |
Alternate only |
Yes |
Hardware Information |
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Screen & Monitors |
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Device |
Works? |
Bug # |
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in Edgy 6.10 |
in Feisty 7.04 |
in 9.04 Jaunty |
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Screen |
Yes |
Yes, see notes |
Yes |
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Correct resolution? |
Yes (1280x800) |
Yes (1280x800) |
Yes |
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Correct refresh rate? |
Yes (60 Hz) |
Yes (60 Hz) |
Yes |
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3D Acceleration |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes, slow with oss driver |
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External monitor works? |
no |
no |
Yes, FN+F5 works |
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External monitor - mirrors |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes, cycle with FN+F5 |
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External monitor - extend desktop |
Untested |
Untested |
Yes, cycle with FN+F5 |
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Power Management |
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Battery detected? |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Hibernates? |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Sleep |
No |
Untested |
Yes |
|
Dim monitor on battery |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
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Blank monitor on inactivity |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Lid Close |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Cpu frequency scaling |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Sound |
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Sound works? |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Correct volume? |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Hardware volume switch |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Headphone jack |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Mic jack |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Networking |
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Wired NIC |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Wireless NIC |
see notes |
see notes |
Out of the box! |
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PCMCIA NIC |
Untested |
recognized |
recognized |
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Firewire |
Untested |
Yes |
untested |
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Bluetooth |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
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Modem |
Untested |
Untested |
recognized, untested |
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Infrared |
Untested |
Untested |
Untested |
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Touchpad & Mice |
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Touchpad |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes, two fingers |
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Touchpad - Doubletap = double click |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Touchpad - Scroll down side |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Touchpad - turned off while typing |
FN+F7 |
FN+F7 |
FN+F7 |
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External mouse - USB |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Docking Station/Port Replicator |
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No docking Station available |
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Additional Hardware |
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CD/DVD drive |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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PCMCIA cards |
Untested |
Untested |
Untested |
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Parallel Ports |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
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Card reader(s) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Function and other keys |
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Fn key |
Operation |
Keycode |
Works? |
Bug # |
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in Edgy 6.10 |
in Feisty 7.04 |
in 9.04 Jaunty |
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+ F2 |
? |
|
Untested |
Untested |
Untested |
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+ F3 |
? |
|
Untested |
Untested |
Untested |
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+ F4 |
sleep/S3 |
|
Yes |
Untested |
Untested |
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+ F5 |
Cycle Mon. Modes |
|
Untested |
Untested |
Untested |
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+ F6 |
Backlight On/Off |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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+ F7 |
Switch Touchpad |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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+ F8 |
Switch Sound |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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+ F11 |
|
Yes |
Untested |
Yes |
|
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+ F12 |
Scroll Lock |
|
Yes |
Untested |
Yes |
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+ Arrow↑ |
Volume Up |
|
Yes |
Untested |
Yes |
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+ Arrow↓ |
Volume Down |
|
Yes |
Untested |
Yes |
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+ Arrow← |
Dim Display |
|
Yes |
Untested |
Yes |
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+ Arrow→ |
Lighten Display |
|
Yes |
Untested |
Yes |
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+ Pg↑ |
Previous Track |
|
No |
Untested |
Untested |
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+ Pg↓ |
Next Track |
|
No |
Untested |
Untested |
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Other special keys |
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Key |
Operation |
Keycode |
Works? |
Bug # |
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in Edgy 6.10 |
in Feisty 7.04 |
in 9.04 Jaunty |
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$ next to Arrow↑ |
$ |
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not mapped |
Untested |
Not mapped |
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€ next to Arrow↑ |
€ |
|
not mapped |
Untested |
Not mapped |
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Mail-Button |
starts Mail Client |
|
Yes |
Untested |
Yes |
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Internet-Button |
starts Browser |
|
Yes |
Untested |
Yes |
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Acer e-Button |
can be mapped |
|
Yes |
Untested |
Yes |
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"P"-Button |
can be mapped |
|
Yes |
Untested |
Yes |
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Notes
This notebook runs very well on Jaunty. Hardware detection works for _all_ devices. You can map four extra buttons above the keyboard which are labeled as:
- Mail Client
- Browser
- Acer e-Button
- P-Button
To map them, just go to you Gnome preferences, select an action and press the desired button.
Setting up the card reader
On jaunty, it works right away. Write into a console:
sudo modprobe tifm_sd
Since you may want to have it enabled after rebooting, add it to /etc/modules.
Graphics Card
Since Jaunty, the shipped ati-driver will work, even with 3D acceleration. However, it consumes 100% CPU all the time when desktop effects are enabled. So I recommend to install ATIs driver by going to system - system settings - hardware. You just neet to click "activate" to enable ATIs drivers.
On older versions: See BinaryDriverHowto/ATI for Instructions how to enable 3D Acceleration. Do use drivers > 8.32.x, or you will not be able to resume from suspend / hibernate. However, my Screen got stuck about every 5 seconds on a 32bit-system. Downgrading to 8.32.6 solved this problem. This bug did NOT occure on 64bit-Edgy.
Enhancing battery endurance
You can use it about two and a half hours by default. This is almost as much as you can use it with other (shipped) OSes. To save some more energy, open "/etc/default/acpi-support" and set LAPTOP_MODE=true (at the bottom). You may also open "/etc/default/fglrx" and uncomment the option inside to choke graphical performance while the laptop's lid is closed. You may do this manually, if you have ati's binary drivers installed: "aticonfig --lsp" will show you a list of available powerstates. Set one with "aticonfig --set-powerstate=x", where x is your choosen powerstate. If I set Powerstate to lowest, my screen sometime has glitches, forcing me to switch to console and back again. Use 2 instead (out of three).
Wireless
Jaunty
Wireless works right away on Jaunty. I didn't test monitor mode yet, but on Intrepid I managed to patch the driver b43, so I could use monitor mode with aircrack and/or kismet to test my wireless security.
Manual install
On older versions what you had to do is this:
Use bcm43xx to use monitor mode on your Wireless, or ndiswrapper for usual needs. WEP up to 128bits works out-of-the-box, WPA may be configured as shown in this thread: link me.
For regular use:
* Install 'acer_acpi' module, this must be done because the acer button in front of the computer doesn't work for Linux, the next steps will make the wireless card work by software like if you activate the card by pressing the button.
Download acer_acpi from : [WWW] http://code.google.com/p/aceracpi/[[BR]]
Untar (in terminal tar -xvjf package.tar.bz2) the files like you always do with Ubuntu and in the terminal go to these files directory
Execute the next commands :
- make
- sudo make install
Everytime you want to activate your Wifi, type:
sudo rmmod bcm43xx # (may also be blacklisted of cause) sudo modprobe acer_acpi sudo modprobe ndiswrapper sudo chmod 777 /proc/acpi/acer/wireless echo "enabled: 1" >/proc/acpi/acer/wireless
You may put that into a script. You need to sudo these actions.
Suspend
On Jaunty
Works right away, both Suspend to RAM (S3) and Suspend to Disk. Both drivers, ati and fglrx were tested.
Until Hardy
Suspend with fglrx drivers:
You must edit stuff in /etc/default/acpi-support
SAVE_VBE_STATE=false
POST_VIDEO=false
This changes should remove black screen of death while resuming from suspend.
LaptopTestingTeam/Old/AcerAspire5024WLMi (last edited 2010-02-27 13:30:53 by 94)