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Acer Aspire One 722-0828
Introduction
The Acer Aspire One 722-0828 is a categorized as a netbook, but it is a beautiful little machine, inexpensive and with fairly good processing power. Installation of GNU/Linux (OpenSuse 11.4) on this little machine was fairly easy. The main sticking point was to get the wireless card to work without “freezing” the system.
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Specifications
| Name | Aspire One 722 (AO722-0828) |
| Processor | AMD Dual-Core C-60 1.0GHz |
| Screen | 11.6“ HD Widescreen LCD display (1366 x 768) |
| RAM | 4GB |
| HDD | 500GB |
| Optical Drive | None |
| Graphics | ATI Radeon HD 6290 |
| Network | 802.11b/g/n - 10/100 LAN |
Linux Compatibility
| Device | Compatibility | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Processor | Yes | Comments |
| Screen | Yes | Comments |
| HDD | Yes | Comments |
| Optical Drive | N/A | Comments |
| Graphics | Yes | Comments |
| Sound | Yes | Comments |
| Ethernet | Yes | Comments |
| Wireless | Yes | Comments |
| Bluetooth | N/A | Comments |
| 56K Modem | N/A | Comments |
| USB | Yes | Comments |
| Firewire | N/A | Comments |
| Card Reader | Yes/No/Partial/Not Tested | Comments |
| ExpressCard Slot | N/A | Comments |
| Camera | Yes | Comments |
Installing openSUSE 11.4 x86-64 on Acer Aspire 722-0828:
Based on my experience with Acer Aspire 1551, I decided to go directly to installing from external optical drive.
DVD install from external DVD drive:
Download DVD install image (openSUSE-11.4-DVD-x86_64.iso) from the openSUSE download site. Boot onto DVD and choose install, write acpi=off in the kernel option line. Follow installation menu as per instructions in Installation Help. After installing all packages and writing some configuration files, the system will ask to reboot. I usually install the system with root password and without automatic login. After rebooting and logging in I found that the wireless card had not been detected, this was not a problem because I was connected via a wired connection. I brought the system up to date using yast and rebooted again. Then I added extra repositories including: - ATI - Packman - VideoLan A new update installed a somewhat old proprietary ATI graphic driver.
… To Be Continued … Update January 19th 2014 I am back after a short while :)
Installation of Linux Mint 16 “Petra” KDE version works out of the box with no hardware issues
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Summary
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