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• Contact: Grant Bowman (grantbow et ubuntu döt com)
• Make: Acer
• Model: Aspire "Timeline" 4810TZ

• Website: us.acer.com Aspire 4810

• related: support.acer.com, help.ubuntu.com with great links too, Debian report, LaptopTestingTeam/AcerTimeline4810TG, new from amazon.com, Grantbow notes

Karmic

Current issues:

• The Screen brightness setting special keys show the notification properly but it has no effect - can require BIOS update plus configuration

• DVD issues https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/412527 though one BIOS workaround changing from AHCI to IDE seems to work for some

Problematic hardware:

• Wireless connection disconnecting - Stefan Bader's PPA solved the problems!

• Synaptics Touchpad on/off switch not working - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/374459 - fixed by changing GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" to "i8042.nomux quiet splash"

• Synaptics Touchpad does not disable while typing - fixed by creating an xorg.conf with "sudo X -configure" and adding the following to Section "InputDevice" -- Option "SHMConfig" "on"

System Info

$ sudo dmidecode -s system-manufacturer
Acer

$ sudo dmidecode -s system-product-name
Aspire 4810T

$ sudo dmidecode -s system-version
V1.15

$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M-E LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) Thermal Subsystem (rev 03)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. Device 1063 (rev c0)
02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)

Notes

I got this machine at Radio Shack last minute before UDS-L in Dallas, TX after my thinkpad's video card died. I saw another one at Radio Shack in California.

On the 4810TG page bug 435906 is referenced. In the lspci above there are two listings for graphics cards as 00:02.0 and 00:02.1 but I don't know how to check if they are powered on or not.

A primary forum thread for this laptop: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1211009

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