Acer Aspire AS1410
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Overview
The Acer Aspire AS1410 is an inexpensive but full-featured small laptop. It's distinguished from Acer's netbooks by having a larger screen (11.6", 1366 x 768 pixels) and Windows Vista Home Premium, and from Acer/Gateway's other 11.6" laptops by having somewhat beefier compute specs (Intel Core Solo SU3500 CPU, Intel 4500MHD GPU).
There is a similar but more expensive model with a Core Duo processor. Aside from the price, the Duo has a TDP of about 10W instead of 5W, and some other small spec differences -- as well as two cores.
Debian GNU/Linux / Ubuntu on the Acer Aspire AS1410
Works Great
I installed Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 Desktop 64-bit in a dual-boot configuration. It works great, after the Hitachi SATA / kernel workaround described below.
Working flawlessly:
- suspend to RAM
- hibernate to disk
- sound
- Fn-key volume and brightness controls
- WiFi
- battery indicator
- VirtualBox
Hitachi SATA / Kernel Workaround
Using the live version on a USB stick worked flawlessly. There was a SATA problem booting with the hard disk after I installed to the hard disk; it turned out to be a compatibility issue between the kernel and the Hitachi HTS543225L9A300 hard drive. The workaround is to add "libata.force=noncq" to the kernel options. For instance, in /boot/grub/menu.lst, change the defoptions line to:
# defoptions=quiet libata.force=noncq
and make sure "libata.force=noncq" is added to the ends of the existing kernel lines.
References for the SATA error fix:
- (Acertimeline) AHCI mode for 3810T with Hitachi Disk HTS545032B9A300
- Bug #379831 is not in Ubuntu: “ata2 exception EMask delays/prevents booting 9.04 & 8.10”
- AspireTimeline/Fixes - Community Ubuntu Documentation
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