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6th March 2012, 05:08 AM
#1
Acer Aspire S3
I just installed fedora 16 on my new Acer Aspire S3 notebook. Couple of problems I am facing are -
- I am not able to control the brightness
- The fan does not stop. I hear it running all the time
- 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
Last edited by winterport; 6th March 2012 at 05:12 AM.
Reason: Missed out another problem
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6th March 2012, 12:57 PM
#2
Re: Acer Aspire S3
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
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7th March 2012, 12:37 AM
#3
Re: Acer Aspire S3
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!
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7th March 2012, 02:01 AM
#4
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