This laptop is something in between a traditional laptop and an ultrabook, it has an optical drive but not a VGA port.
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Name | Acer Aspire TimelineUltra M5-481T-6642 |
Processor | Intel Core i5-3317M (dual-core, 1.7 GHz with Turbo Boost up to 2.6 GHz, 3 MB L3 cache) |
Screen | 14-inch 1366 x 768 pixels (HD), 16:9 aspect ratio 112 ppi pixel density Active Matrix TFT Color LCD LED backlight & CineCrystal technology |
RAM | Up to 6 GB |
HDD | 500 GB 5400 rpm HDD 20 GB SSD (Hybrid) |
Optical Drive | 8X DVDRW DL |
Graphics | Intel HD Graphics 4000 |
Network | Gigabit Ethernet(RJ-45 port) Broadcom 43228 802.11 a/g/n or Atheros AR9462 |
Device | Compatibility | Comments |
---|---|---|
Processor | Works | |
Screen | Works | |
HDD | Works | |
SSD | Works | |
Graphics Chip | Works | |
HDMI Out | Works | Audio and video :) see the notes below |
Optical Drive | Works | |
Sound | Works | |
Microphone | Works | |
Microphone Port | Not Tested | |
Headphone Port | Works | |
Ethernet | Works | |
Wireless | Works | Tested for Atheros AR9462 with the solution below |
Bluetooth | Does not work | Tested for Atheros AR9462 |
USB3 | Works | |
Card Reader | works | Tested with a micro SD card inside an adapter |
Webcam | Works | |
Keyboard | Works | even the backlight Fn+F9 works |
TouchPad | Works | Use Ctrl+Fn+F7 to enable |
Suspend/Resume | Works |
Before doing anything check your wireless card model with
lspci | grep -i wireless
(You can also tether the wifi, through usb, from an android phone)
There is a known issue (for many Atheros AR9xxx cards) related to the kernel version, see here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/40876/how-do-i-get-an-atheros-ar9287-working
My sugestion is to use
echo "options ath9k nohwcrypt=1" >> /etc/modprobe.d/ath9.conf
There is a known issue described at the bottom of this page: http://wiki.debian.org/wl, to fix this my sugestion is
apt-get install laptop-mode-tools
and then “set WIRELESS_BATT_POWER_SAVING=0 within /etc/laptop-mode/conf.d/wireless-power.conf”
The first time I tried to use the HDMI (with gnome 3 and pulseAudio) the thing didn't worked, a “dummy device” apeared, to get rid of it use (not with root, with your normal user)
pulseaudio --kill pulseaudio --start
now is working with “Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output + Analog Stereo Input” in the hardware tab of the gnome sound settings
There are two ways to enable it:
In order to make it work I had to place a card in the slot and reboot the system with the card inside.
The usb mouse freezes, to fix this what I did was to install the `laptop-mode-tools`
apt-get install laptop-mode-tools
then use
lsusb
to get the mouse USB ID, something like `abcd:1234`, and then place that in the `AUTOSUSPEND_USBID_BLACKLIST` within the file
/etc/laptop-mode/conf.d/usb-autosuspend.conf
to fix it (if you have the Atheros AR9462 card) I recommend you read this https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1024884
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