Sunday 30 August 2009

BIOS update for Acer Timeline 3410T improves power management and battery life

The Acer Timeline 3410T, with a different CPU than the 3810T, also needs its BIOS updated to have proper power management. More details in this email:
https://lists.launchpad.net/acertimeline/msg00094.html

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Friday 28 August 2009

brightness control in Acer Timeline laptops

An interesting post in the ubuntuforums about brightness control for 3810T and 4810T Acer Timeline laptops:

[ubuntu] Acer Timeline 3810T - Page 24 - Ubuntu Forums
Re: Acer Timeline 3810T
In this post[1] Salixman made reference to that the 2.6.30 kernel fixes the problems with backlight (brightness controls) and some networking probs on the 4810T. I am using the 2.6.30 Debian Kernel and I still have broken backlight controls and have to compile Ethernet drivers still.

I think they referring to the latest 2.6.31-rcX[2] kernels that fix the problems.

[1] http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7856969&postcount=29
[2] http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.31-rc7/


Thursday 27 August 2009

Linux on Acer Aspire Timeline Launchpad group reaches 50 registered users

Since the Acer Timeline Launchpad group was created 3 months ago, we've reached 50 active memberships, which is an impressing rate for the Linux on ultra-thin category of laptops. At the current rate, the Acer Timeline group will probably be as successful as the Sony Vaio Z-series sooner than later. This two laptops have substantially different characteristics: the Acer Timeline models have phenomenal battery live at the expense of not-so-powerful CPUs. They Sony Vaio Z-series is feature-rich but also substantially more expensive than the Acer Timeline models.

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Wednesday 26 August 2009

Wednesday update -- Fedora 11 on Sony Vaio Z-series and Aspire Timeline 3410

A Fedora 11 report from a Sony Vaio Z-series laptop:
https://lists.launchpad.net/sony-vaio-z-series/

And a report from an Acer Aspire Timeline 3410 (Celeron 723) running Karmic Alpha 4 64bit:
https://lists.launchpad.net/acertimeline

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Saturday 22 August 2009

Saturday update

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Friday 21 August 2009

rfkill-applet update

Updated rfkill-applet for the linux Sony Vaio Z-series laptop:
https://lists.launchpad.net/sony-vaio-z-series/msg00428.html

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Thursday 20 August 2009

nvidia powermizer and flashing BIOS without Windows on Sony Vaio Z-series

More activity in the linux on Sony Vaio Z-series launchpad mailing list:
https://lists.launchpad.net/sony-vaio-z-series/msg00437.html
https://lists.launchpad.net/sony-vaio-z-series/msg00436.html

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Tuesday 18 August 2009

AspireTimeline wiki in ubuntu.com

Here is the link to the wiki page for the AspireTimeline laptop:
http://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireTimeline

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Friday 14 August 2009

Linux Multitap with synaptic touchpad on Acer Timeline laptops

According to the instructions in the post below, the Acer Timeline laptops can now have touchpad features like two-finger scrolling:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7253159&postcount=17

this is reported to work here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7783020&postcount=193

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Thursday 13 August 2009

Thursday count update

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Sunday 9 August 2009

Sunday count update

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Thursday 6 August 2009

Thursday count update

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Wednesday 5 August 2009

Wednesday count update

In a bit more than 2 months, the Acer Aspire Timeline 3810T/4810T and Linux launchpad group has turned into the second most followed group in the ultra-thin laptops category. This Acer Aspire Timeline series is thus turning into a great seller at a much lower selling price than a lot of its competitors.

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Monday 3 August 2009

Monday count update

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Sunday 2 August 2009

Sunday count update

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