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

Updated counts for the different groups:

• Sony Vaio Z-series and Linux -- 130 active memberships
• Acer Aspire Timeline 3810T/4810T and Linux -- 53 active memberships
  
• Dell Latitude E4200/E4300 and Linux -- 44 active memberships
• Lenovo ThinkPad X301 and Linux -- 40 active memberships
• Toshiba Portege R500-R600 and Linux -- 13 active memberships
• Samsung X360 and Linux -- 12 active memberships
  
• Dell Adamo and Linux -- 3 active membership

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/

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.

Updated counts for the different groups:

• Sony Vaio Z-series and Linux -- 130 active memberships
• Acer Aspire Timeline 3810T/4810T and Linux -- 50 active memberships
  
• Dell Latitude E4200/E4300 and Linux -- 44 active memberships
• Lenovo ThinkPad X301 and Linux -- 40 active memberships
• Toshiba Portege R500-R600 and Linux -- 13 active memberships
• Samsung X360 and Linux -- 12 active memberships
  
• Dell Adamo and Linux -- 3 active membership

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

Updated counts for the different groups:

• Sony Vaio Z-series and Linux -- 130 active memberships
• Acer Aspire Timeline 3810T/4810T and Linux -- 48 active memberships
  
• Dell Latitude E4200/E4300 and Linux -- 44 active memberships
• Lenovo ThinkPad X301 and Linux -- 40 active memberships
• Toshiba Portege R500-R600 and Linux -- 13 active memberships
• Samsung X360 and Linux -- 12 active memberships
  
• Dell Adamo and Linux -- 3 active membership

Saturday update

Updated counts for the different groups:

• Sony Vaio Z-series and Linux -- 130 active memberships
• Acer Aspire Timeline 3810T/4810T and Linux -- 45 active memberships
  
• Dell Latitude E4200/E4300 and Linux -- 44 active memberships
• Lenovo ThinkPad X301 and Linux -- 39 active memberships
• Toshiba Portege R500-R600 and Linux -- 13 active memberships
• Samsung X360 and Linux -- 12 active memberships
  
• Dell Adamo and Linux -- 3 active memberships

rfkill-applet update

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

Updated counts for the different groups:

• Sony Vaio Z-series and Linux -- 129 active memberships
• Acer Aspire Timeline 3810T/4810T and Linux -- 45 active memberships
  
• Dell Latitude E4200/E4300 and Linux -- 42 active memberships
• Lenovo ThinkPad X301 and Linux -- 39 active memberships
• Toshiba Portege R500-R600 and Linux -- 13 active memberships
• Samsung X360 and Linux -- 12 active memberships
  
• Dell Adamo and Linux -- 3 active memberships

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

Updated counts:

• Sony Vaio Z-series and Linux -- 129 active memberships
• Acer Aspire Timeline 3810T/4810T and Linux -- 45 active memberships
  
• Dell Latitude E4200/E4300 and Linux -- 41 active memberships
• Lenovo ThinkPad X301 and Linux -- 39 active memberships
• Toshiba Portege R500-R600 and Linux -- 13 active memberships
• Samsung X360 and Linux -- 12 active memberships
  
• Dell Adamo and Linux -- 3 active memberships

AspireTimeline wiki in ubuntu.com

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

Updated counts for the different groups:

• Sony Vaio Z-series and Linux -- 128 active memberships
• Acer Aspire Timeline 3810T/4810T and Linux -- 43 active memberships
  
• Dell Latitude E4200/E4300 and Linux -- 41 active memberships
• Lenovo ThinkPad X301 and Linux -- 38 active memberships
• Toshiba Portege R500-R600 and Linux -- 13 active memberships
• Samsung X360 and Linux -- 12 active memberships
  
• Dell Adamo and Linux -- 3 active memberships

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

Updated counts for the different groups:

• Sony Vaio Z-series and Linux -- 127 active memberships
• Acer Aspire Timeline 3810T/4810T and Linux -- 43 active memberships
  
• Dell Latitude E4200/E4300 and Linux -- 41 active memberships
• Lenovo ThinkPad X301 and Linux -- 38 active memberships
• Toshiba Portege R500-R600 and Linux -- 13 active memberships
• Samsung X360 and Linux -- 12 active memberships
  
• Dell Adamo and Linux -- 3 active memberships

Thursday count update

Updated counts for the different groups:

• Sony Vaio Z-series and Linux -- 127 active memberships
• Acer Aspire Timeline 3810T/4810T and Linux -- 43 active memberships
  
• Dell Latitude E4200/E4300 and Linux -- 41 active memberships
• Lenovo ThinkPad X301 and Linux -- 38 active memberships
• Toshiba Portege R500-R600 and Linux -- 13 active memberships
• Samsung X360 and Linux -- 12 active memberships
  
• Dell Adamo and Linux -- 3 active memberships

Sunday count update

Updated counts for the different groups:

• Sony Vaio Z-series and Linux -- 126 active memberships
• Acer Aspire Timeline 3810T/4810T and Linux -- 43 active memberships
  
• Dell Latitude E4200/E4300 and Linux -- 40 active memberships
• Lenovo ThinkPad X301 and Linux -- 38 active memberships
• Toshiba Portege R500-R600 and Linux -- 13 active memberships
• Samsung X360 and Linux -- 12 active memberships
  
• Dell Adamo and Linux -- 3 active memberships

Thursday count update

Updated counts for the different groups:

• Sony Vaio Z-series and Linux -- 124 active memberships
• Acer Aspire Timeline 3810T/4810T and Linux -- 41 active memberships
  
• Dell Latitude E4200/E4300 and Linux -- 40 active memberships
• Lenovo ThinkPad X301 and Linux -- 38 active memberships
  
• Samsung X360 and Linux -- 12 active memberships
  
• Toshiba Portege R500-R600 and Linux -- 12 active memberships
• Dell Adamo and Linux -- 3 active memberships

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.

Updated counts for the different groups:

• Sony Vaio Z-series and Linux -- 124 active memberships
• Acer Aspire Timeline 3810T/4810T and Linux -- 40 active memberships
  
• Dell Latitude E4200/E4300 and Linux -- 40 active memberships
• Lenovo ThinkPad X301 and Linux -- 38 active memberships
  
• Samsung X360 and Linux -- 12 active memberships
  
• Toshiba Portege R500-R600 and Linux -- 12 active memberships
• Dell Adamo and Linux -- 3 active memberships

Monday count update

Updated counts for the different groups:

• Sony Vaio Z-series and Linux -- 123 active memberships
• Dell Latitude E4200/E4300 and Linux -- 39 active memberships
• Acer Aspire Timeline 3810T/4810T and Linux -- 38 active memberships
  
• Lenovo ThinkPad X301 and Linux -- 38 active memberships
  
• Samsung X360 and Linux -- 12 active memberships
  
• Toshiba Portege R500-R600 and Linux -- 12 active memberships
• Dell Adamo and Linux -- 3 active memberships

Sunday count update

Updated counts for the different groups:

• Sony Vaio Z-series and Linux -- 123 active memberships
• Dell Latitude E4200/E4300 and Linux -- 39 active memberships
• Lenovo ThinkPad X301 and Linux -- 38 active memberships
  
• Acer Aspire Timeline 3810T/4810T and Linux -- 37 active memberships
• Samsung X360 and Linux -- 12 active memberships
  
• Toshiba Portege R500-R600 and Linux -- 12 active memberships
  
• Dell Adamo and Linux -- 3 active memberships