I bought this laptop in the beginning of 2005. It was preloaded with a basic version(no X/GUI) of Linux – known as Linpus linux. A long time fan of fedora, I was shocked to see that my new laptop would not boot from the Fedora Core 4 DVD. The other choices I had was SuSE Linux 10.1 and Ubuntu. I went ahead with SuSE and there are no regrets. I had updated it to OpenSuse 10.2 now. Either there was inbuilt support or I was able to make things work.
Works by default
Bluetooth
Works with intervention
Infrared[SMSC-IRCC]: works with the option enabled in the BIOS. FIR does not work
Internal Modem [AC 97] works with the smartlink-softmodem driver
Suspend to disk and Suspend to RAM works with minor change to options
Untested
Wireless Lan
Doesn’t work
Acer hotkeys
Software
Google Picasa works with the ulimit=unlimited option
I will be posting detailed instructions on these later
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