Acer Aspire S3

[winterport]

I just installed fedora 16 on my new Acer Aspire S3 notebook. Couple of problems I am facing are -

1. I am not able to control the brightness
2. The fan does not stop. I hear it running all the time
3. The touchpad is very slow and there is no option to change it

I can live with the fan running but the brightness is really bothering me. External mouse works great so I can live without the touchpad too. Earlier I found a solution but it is for ubuntu

http://www.linlap.com/wiki/acer+aspire+s3

The grub file looks different from ubuntu so I was wondering if anyone has a solution to this issue

[smr54]

You should have an /etc/default/grub, and it probably has the line

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="quiet rhgb"

Add most of what they give there, (the splash is for a splash screen which you don't need, and quiet is there.

So you change what I had above to read

GRUB_CMDLINE="quiet rhgb pcie_aspm=force i915.i915_enable_rc6=1 acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor"

As far as I know, you shouldn't need a second line saying pcie_aspm force, as you already added it.

Then, the Fedora command is somewhat different. Instead of the update-grub, run


grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

as root or using sudo, i.e., sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

[winterport]

Thanks smr54! That worked great.

I changed it from
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 KEYTABLE=us quiet SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 rhgb rd.luks=0 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd.lvm.lv=vg_xxxxxx/lv_swap rd.lvm.lv=vg_xxxxxx/lv_root"

To

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 KEYTABLE=us quiet SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 rhgb pcie_aspm=force i915.i915_enable_rc6=1 acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor rd.luks=0 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd.lvm.lv=vg_xxxxxx/lv_swap rd.lvm.lv=vg_xxxxxx/lv_root"

Then the command

# grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

It works after rebooting the box!

[smr54]

Glad it helped.