Fedora on laptop Acer Aspire 5000

[fbarsoba]

Hi all,

I just bought an Acer Aspire series 5000, and I installed Fedora on it. I anticipate lots of problems.. but for starters:

Neither LAN nor Wireless seem to work. I thought at least the drivers for LAN were going to work on this new machine.. but it doesn't seem so. With the Wireless adapter I have the same problem (Broadcom 802.11b/g)

Also, the resolution I get is 800x600.. and this machine has wide screen with obviously much higher resolution. Fedora seems to detect the graphic card though.. an SiS ..

I'd appreciate any advice or comment.

thanks,

Fernando

[Johnny Fist]

I don't know too much about the networking issue, but what display type did you use when you installed Fedora? You can go in and manually change it by going into the Main Menu>System Settings> and then chnage the resolution settings. You may also have to check the hardware tab first and pick a different monitor type. Usually you can get get by with a generic CRT or LCD if you can't find your particular monitor in the list.

Hope this helps!

[sailor]

I have a Acer Aspire 3000 and had to use acpi=ht in the kernel line of /boot/grub/grub.conf in order to connect to net...the wireless I was never able to get working. My acer has a button to enable/disable wifi which is not on by default. I have looked into the acerhk application which is supposed to be a solution.
A place to start looking is http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~tauber/acerhk/
I have a D-link pcmcia card which has the atheros chipset, which I understand is easy to setup with the madwifi drivers. http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi/ I think I am just going to use it rather than experimenting with the other solutions for the built in card.

My resolution is 1280x800 (wide screen)which I was able to set...I think I used generic LCD in the dialog like Johnny was saying....I unfortunently do not run FC4 on my laptop anymore or I would send you the xorg.conf entries to look at..

Another method is to manually edit the /etc/x11/xorg.conf file. At the commandline use
gtf 1280 800 60 -v to get the modeline settings for your monitor/lcd (this is an example for my 1280x800 @ 60 Hz refresh lcd screen) Add the the new resolutions in the xorg.conf following the other entries as examples.
What kind of video card do you have? You may need to install drivers?

[fbarsoba]

Thanks for your hel, guys.. Here's where I'm now:

Originally Posted by sailor

I have a Acer Aspire 3000 and had to use acpi=ht in the kernel line of /boot/grub/grub.conf

I tried that with no success... very strange..

Originally Posted by sailor

My resolution is 1280x800 (wide screen)which I was able to set...I think I used generic LCD in the dialog like Johnny was saying....I unfortunently do not run FC4 on my laptop anymore or I would send you the xorg.conf entries to look at..

Another method is to manually edit the /etc/x11/xorg.conf file. At the commandline use
gtf 1280 800 60 -v to get the modeline settings for your monitor/lcd (this is an example for my 1280x800 @ 60 Hz refresh lcd screen) Add the the new resolutions in the xorg.conf following the other entries as examples.
What kind of video card do you have? You may need to install drivers?

I tried this.. and I coud get the desired resolution. However, two nasty bands appear on top and on the middle of the screen. Here's the content of my files:

>After executing gtf 1280 800 60 -v
1: [H PIXELS RND] : 1280.000000
2: [V LINES RND] : 800.000000
3: [V FIELD RATE RQD] : 60.000000
4: [TOP MARGIN (LINES)] : 0.000000
5: [BOT MARGIN (LINES)] : 0.000000
6: [INTERLACE] : 0.000000
7: [H PERIOD EST] : 20.120682
8: [V SYNC+BP] : 27.000000
9: [V BACK PORCH] : 24.000000
10: [TOTAL V LINES] : 828.000000
11: [V FIELD RATE EST] : 60.024281
12: [H PERIOD] : 20.128824
13: [V FIELD RATE] : 60.000000
14: [V FRAME RATE] : 60.000000
15: [LEFT MARGIN (PIXELS)] : 0.000000
16: [RIGHT MARGIN (PIXELS)] : 0.000000
17: [TOTAL ACTIVE PIXELS] : 1280.000000
18: [IDEAL DUTY CYCLE] : 23.961353
19: [H BLANK (PIXELS)] : 400.000000
20: [TOTAL PIXELS] : 1680.000000
21: [PIXEL FREQ] : 83.462402
22: [H FREQ] : 49.680000
17: [H SYNC (PIXELS)] : 136.000000
18: [H FRONT PORCH (PIXELS)] : 64.000000
36: [V ODD FRONT PORCH(LINES)] : 1.000000

# 1280x800 @ 60.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 49.68 kHz; pclk: 83.46 MHz
Modeline "1280x800_60.00" 83.46 1280 1344 1480 1680 800 801 804 828 -HSync +Vsync

And the content of /etc/x11/xorg.conf: (What parameters should I change??)

Thanks!,

fernando

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Synaptics" "AlwaysCore"
EndSection

Section "Files"

# RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally
# no need to change the default.
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
Load "synaptics"
Load "dri"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
# Option "Xleds" "1 2 3"
# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
# Option "XkbDisable"
# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
# Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
# Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# or:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"
# Or if you just want both to be control, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
#
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "LCD Panel 1280x800"
HorizSync 49.68
VertRefresh 60.0 - 60.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "sis"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "SiS 660/661FX/M661FX/M661MX/741/741GX/M741/760/M760"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x800" "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection

[fbarsoba]

Ok, I could get the desired resolution. I don't see much possibilities on the wireless front.. but I'll try to set up the LAN connection..

Thanks,

Fernando