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• Contact: SanderSmid, ActiuInformatica

• Brand: Acer
• Model: Aspire 5315

• Product website: http://global.acer.com/products/notebook/as5315.htm

Pending issues

• Wifi only works with ndiswrapper or madwifi

Known hardware (lshw -short)

H/W path               Device      Class       Description
==========================================================
                                   system      Aspire 5315
/0                                 bus         Acadia
/0/0                               memory      1MiB BIOS
/0/18                              memory      2GiB System Memory
/0/18/0                            memory      1GiB DIMM Synchronous 533 MHz (1.9 ns)
/0/18/1                            memory      1GiB DIMM Synchronous 533 MHz (1.9 ns)
/0/20                              processor   Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU          550  @ 2.00GHz
/0/20/21                           memory      1MiB L2 cache
/0/20/23                           memory      32KiB L1 cache
/0/22                              memory      32KiB L1 cache
/0/100                             bridge      Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub
/0/100/2                           display     Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller
/0/100/2.1                         display     Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller
/0/100/1a                          bus         82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4
/0/100/1a.1                        bus         82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5
/0/100/1a.7                        bus         82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2
/0/100/1b                          multimedia  82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller
/0/100/1c                          bridge      82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1
/0/100/1c.1                        bridge      82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2
/0/100/1c.2                        bridge      82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3
/0/100/1c.2/0          eth0        network     NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express
/0/100/1c.3                        bridge      82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4
/0/100/1c.3/0          wifi0       network     AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter
/0/100/1d                          bus         82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1
/0/100/1d.1                        bus         82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2
/0/100/1d.2                        bus         82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3
/0/100/1d.7                        bus         82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1
/0/100/1e                          bridge      82801 Mobile PCI Bridge
/0/100/1f                          bridge      82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller
/0/100/1f.1            scsi3       storage     82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller
/0/100/1f.1/0.0.0      /dev/cdrom  disk        DVD-RAM UJ870QJ
/0/100/1f.2            scsi0       storage     82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0      /dev/sda    disk        120GB TOSHIBA MK1246GS
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/1    /dev/sda1   volume      9993MiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/2    /dev/sda2   volume      9766MiB Windows FAT volume
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/3    /dev/sda3   volume      92GiB Extended partition
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/3/5  /dev/sda5   volume      1953MiB Linux swap / Solaris partition
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/3/6  /dev/sda6   volume      28GiB Linux filesystem partition
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/3/7  /dev/sda7   volume      61GiB Linux filesystem partition
/0/100/1f.3                        bus         82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller
/1                                 power       Li-ion(6cell)
/2                     pan0        network     Ethernet interface

Achievements - results

(*) Notes and recipes

Graphic acceleration

• Gutsy: 3D has bugs due Intel X3100 driver (opengl z buffer error / crashes) https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mesa/+bug/120834.

Compiz/Beryl

• Gutsy: Desktop effects doesn't work out of the box (blacklisted driver due lacking Xv support).

Audio

• Gutsy: Sound doesn't work by default.

Videocamera

• Gutsy: Webcam does work but the 'video4linux 2' drivers aren't supported in much applications (yet).

Wireless NIC

Automatically offered driver doesn't run well.

1. With Synaptic, install the package "build-essential"

2. Check if Ubuntu has already detected and enabled the Atheros drivers that come with repositories, with the tool for restricted hardware drivers (jockey). Disable all elements related with Atheros.

3. Download a different MadWifi package from http://snapshots.madwifi.org/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-current.tar.gz

4. With a console, move to the directory where have downloaded the new MadWifi package

5. sudo tar -xzvf madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-current.tar.gz

6. cd madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-current/

7. sudo make

8. Install the new specific driver: sudo make install

9. Restart the computer.

10. Open again the restricted drivers manager (jockey) and enable only the wireless support for Atheros. Leave "Atheros Hardware Access Layer - HAL" disabled.

Note: The task to download the MadWifi package does not work while there is no such file on internet.

Toucpad

* By default the pointer moves very slow.

See also

• Check for an up-to-date howto to get most of the hardware on this notebook working at the ubuntuforums: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=610603

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