<vote Acer-Aspire-5538-Rating check=ip> How do you rate this laptop with Linux? * Excellent * Good * Fair * Poor * Unusable </vote>
William Pfaff
Installed Kubuntu 10.0.4 with few problems. Only needed to click on the network icon and enable wireless. I downloaded cheese, Ekiga and GTK UVC viewer rebooted and then the camera works. Best with GTK UVC Viewer.
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Name | Acer Aspire 5538 |
Processor | AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 dual-core processor L310 (1 MB L2 cache, 1.20 GHz, DDR2 800 MHz FSB, 13 W) |
Screen | 15.6“ 1366×768 |
RAM | 4GB |
HDD | 320GB |
Optical Drive | 8X DVD-Super Multi double-layer drive |
Graphics | ATI Radeon™ HD 3200 Graphics with up to 20467 MB of HyperMemory™ (256+128 MB of dedicated system memory, up to 1662 MB of shared system memory), supporting Unified Video Decoder (UVD), OpenEXR High Dynamic-Range (HDR) technology, Shader Model 4.0, Microsoft® DirectX® 10 |
Network | AMD M780G Chipset Acer InviLink™ Nplify™2, 3 802.11b/g/Draft-N Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ network connection |
Device | Compatibility | Comments |
---|---|---|
Processor | Yes | |
Screen | Yes | |
HDD | Yes | |
Optical Drive | Yes | |
Graphics | Yes | |
Sound | Yes | |
Ethernet | Yes | |
Wireless | Yes | |
Bluetooth | Not Tested | |
56K Modem | Not Tested | |
USB | Yes | |
Card Reader | Not Tested | |
Camera | Yes |
For the most part installing and enabling the network was easy, hardest part was getting the camera to work. After installing the software you need to reboot before the camera will work.