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Acer laptops review?

DISCUSSION Adrian Cioclu 4 participants 4 messages Sep 11, 2003 – Oct 6, 2003

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Hello,

Does anybody have experience with Acer laptops? Are them of any good? Do they work properly in Linux?

Thanks,
Adrian

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In article <[email protected]>,
Robert Zwerus <[email protected]> wrote:

| On Thursday 11 September 2003 14:21, Adrian Cioclu wrote:
| > Are them of any good? Do they work properly in Linux?
| 
| http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/acer.html
| http://www.linux.org/hardware/laptop.html
| http://tuxmobil.org/acer.html

I just wish the information at l-o-l was organized for a search on something other than brand, since brand is sometimes that target rather than the key, in very general terms.

I was looking for a laptop which had Centrino/pentium-M for battery life and which worked with 2.6 kernels. Spent a lot of time and either there isn't one or someone with more time than I will have to find it.

Given the state of 2.6 power management, I have no trouble finding units which won't boot, or suspend, or have disfunctional parts, but I haven't identified the one which actually works :-(

I'll go look at the other links, but I think they are optimized for search by brand as well.

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In reply to Adrian Cioclu

Hello,

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Does anybody have experience with Acer laptops? Are them of any good? Do they work properly in Linux?

I have an Acer Aspire 1203VX, and it runs perfectly under SuSE Linux 8.2.

The Hardware:
Intel Celeron 1300MHz, 256MB RAM, 20GB HDD, 8xDVD-ROM, 3,5"-FDD, Via PM133 Twister Chipset with S3 Savage4 graphics controller integrated

regards,

mike