Questions about Acer Incorporated (a Chinese based multinational) equipment including desktop and laptop PCs, tablet computers, servers, storage devices, displays, smartphones and peripherals.
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New computer hangs on shutdown/reboot, how to troubleshoot?
My system is working perfectly but it freezes during shutdown/reboot/suspend/hibernate: All windows and the menu bar disappear but the desktop wallpaper remains. It doesn't even show the shutdown ...
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10answers
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Screen Brightness not adjustable for Acer Aspire S3
First of all, thank you very much for providing this useful forum.
Too bad for me, there is no support for the Acer Aspire S3 yet (just came out in October)
Short Description of the Problem:
I cannot ...
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9answers
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How to control Brightness
I didn't install anything myself, but only Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on an Acer 4741g.
I use Fn+left/right to change the brightness, but failed.
How can I control the brightness levels?
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5answers
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Can't adjust brightness on my laptop
I'm having difficulty in adjusting brightness on my Acer Aspire 4740:
Screen 14.1-inch glossy LED-backlit, 1366x768 res
CPU Intel Core i5-430M 2.26-GHz
RAM 1GB DDR3
HDD 320GB
Graphics ...
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2answers
2k views
fn + arrow keys don't adjust actual brightness on an Acer Aspire 5740
I have an Aspire 5740 with an Intel Core i3, and Fn + arrow keys still call up the brightness adjuster, but have no effect on actually changing the brightness. The slider moves, but the brightness ...
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3answers
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How to get microphone to work on acer aspire one 722
I have an acer aspire 722, I recently went to use gmail/talk as well as empathy and realized that the microphone does not work. I checked the sound settings, adjusted microphone level, did a mic test ...
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5answers
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Plymouth and GRUB do not show at all [closed]
I am using Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit as my only OS on my desktop computer, which used to only run Ubuntu 10.04 LTS until I had the time to upgrade it with a fresh install. It uses integrated NVIDIA graphics ...
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4answers
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Acer Aspire 1551 Will Not Wake After Suspend
I have an Acer Aspire 1551-5448 Netbook that is running Ubuntu 10.10 64bit Desktop.
I'm loving making the move to Ubuntu but my major stopping point is waking the laptop from a suspend/hibernate ...
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3answers
2k views
Acer Aspire One D257 Laptop doesn't restart
i have Ubuntu 11.10 installed with windows 8 on my Aspire one D257. It restarts with Windows, not with this one.
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0answers
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Acer travelmate 2300 enable wireless in ubuntu 11.04 [closed]
I´ve installed ubuntu 11.04 on my acer travelmate 2300 (2301LMi) and I can´t enable wireless nor use the wireless switch.
Does anyone know a solution to my problem?
Thank´s in advance!
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1answer
3k views
Acer Aspire One 725 - missing graphic card driver for Radeon HD 7290? [closed]
For all you people who THINK they have problem with their Radeons HD.
1) Read carefully what type of Radeon HD card you have. From the internet shop, the specification said that I have a Radeon HD ...
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4answers
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How do I fix a “Wireless is disabled by hardware switch” error?
I just updated to Ubuntu 12.04 from 11.10 but soon after updating I was disappointed to see that
Wireless is disabled by hardware switch.
I can not click the button 'Enable wireless' which is ...
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5answers
2k views
How to Disable touchpad while typing on Aspire One
I want to disable the touchpad while I type on my Aspire one netbook. If I issue the command syndaemon the synaptics driver is not detected:
Unable to find a synaptics device
So, I added the ...
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1answer
1k views
Hibernation causes crashing on an Acer Aspire [closed]
Hibernation worked perfectly fine in 11.04. Ever since I upgraded to 11.10, my laptop (Acer Aspire) keeps crashing when it's hibernating. I have no clue why. Any ideas?
At first it seemed to only ...
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3answers
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Error “fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed”
I am trying to install ubuntu for the first time. (long time windows user, first time linux!)
Version = 11.04 Hardware = Acer Travelmate 4050
I can boot from USB or CD and it loads fine
I have ...
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1answer
5k views
Acer Aspire 8951G Nvidia Optimus and HDMI issues
After loooong searches it seems that linux users are pretty much screwed when it comes to Optimus.
Does anyone know of a workaround other than trying to flash the BIOS with the hack that will show an ...
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1answer
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Wifi stopped working on Acer Aspire 3680 using 11.10
A while ago the WiFi on my Acer Aspire 3680 just stopped working. The switch is on and it can see my network, but it will not connect. It has an Atheros AR2413 802.11bg NIC.
rfkill shows there are no ...
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1answer
963 views
Acer laptop, Intel 2200BG, wireless “disabled by hardware switch” irrespective of switch position
I have the problem that on my old Acer Travelmate292 the wireless hardware switch has stopped working a couple releases ago. It worked fine in Windows.
BIOS is at the latest version, the switch is ...
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2answers
2k views
Acer Aspire 4741G is overheating
My laptop is Acer Aspire 4741G:
CPU: Intel Core i5 460M(2,53GHz)
6 Gb RAM (Kingston DDR3 2gb+4gb)
320 Gb HDD
NVIDIA Ge Force GT 420M (1 Gb)
Tried Ubuntu 10.04, 10.10, 11.10, 12.04, here are the ...
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2answers
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Acer emachines e725 black screen
When i try to run system (Ubuntu 11.10) from pendrive on my laptop (Acer Emachines e725) system starts but i don't see anything (Graphic - Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics ...
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2answers
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Fan runs constantly on an Acer Aspire s3
I have a new Acer Aspire S3 notebook and problems with the fan. After installing Ubuntu 11.10 (but also with the Xubuntu live-disc) the fan is running constantly. Is there any possibility to:
Stop ...
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2answers
882 views
How do you adjust screen brightness on Acer laptop?
I have an Acer Aspire one 5742 laptop. I installed Linux Ubuntu 12.10 on it. I have one problem with it. no matter how I press the Fn+ up or Fn + down keys I cannot adjust the Screen Brightness. It is ...
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4answers
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Acer Aspire One 722 broadcom 4313 wifi
I had an Acer Aspire One 722 with the Atheros Wifi card and it worked fine on 11.04. So we bought 200 of them for our school. However these all came with the Broadcom BCM4313 wireless card and there ...
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2answers
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How to disable a touchpad on an Acer Travelmate 6492?
I think it's broken because it starts working in the same way when i install their drivers in windows. It's an acer travelmate 6492.
I want to disable it because i think that is broken, however i'm ...
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2answers
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brightness settings not ajustable
I gave it a search and found this for version 11.04 on an acer aspire;
sudo gedit /etc/default/grub
Edit two lines to read as follows:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash ...
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0answers
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Brightness not working Acer Aspire One 756-2623 [duplicate]
Brightness not working Acer Aspire One 756-2623 with Ubuntu 12.04. Also the mousepad right-click isn't working ether. I'm completely new to Ubuntu and Linux in general.
How do I fix it?
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1answer
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Impossible to install ubuntu 12.10 both with wubi or regularly
I've tried installing Ubuntu 12.10 both with Wubi and from live CD (USB actually), neither of which was successful.
With Wubi, installing it inside Windows, it gives a black screen after the first ...
1
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1answer
833 views
Cannot Adjust Brightness on Acer Aspire 5332
I recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 with the Windows installer. It appears to be running fine, however the screen is extremely dull and I don't appear to be able to adjust the brightness... I entered ...
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2answers
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broadcom 43225 wireless on acer laptop is disabled
I have a acer aspire 5820T with a broadcom 43225 wireless card. I previously used ubuntu 10.10 and the wireless worked straight away, but when I updated to 11.04 the wireless stopped working.
I have ...
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2answers
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How do I change how much disk space Ubuntu has?
I installed ChruBuntu on my Chomebook Acer C7 about 2 weeks ago and I chose to allocate 10 gigs. I didn't know that that would be my amount of disk space I would be allowed to use. I want to install ...
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1answer
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Install Acer Aspire One ZG5 microphone on Ubuntu 12.10
I just installed Ubuntu 12.10 on a Acer Aspire One ZG5 (AOA 110), then Skype, and I can't make the microphone work. I tried this method with alsamixer
...
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1answer
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Can i install/run Ubuntu 12.10 on my laptop (ACER 5755G)?
I currently have a acer 5755g running windows 8 and specs are as follows:
intel core i5-2430M
nVIDIA GeForce GT540m 1GB VRAM
8GB RAM
750GB HDD
it also has intel graphics card, so is it possible to ...
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1answer
1k views
Problem with brightness settings with Acer Aspire One D255E in 12.04
I run Ubuntu 12.04 on my netbook (Acer Aspire One D255E) and I have the following problem with the brightness settings: If I want to adjust the brightness with the fn-key, I can only change between ...
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1answer
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External Mic not working but Internal Mic works on an Acer Aspiron AO722
My Acer Aspiron AO722 netbook give me a lot of problems.
My Internal microphone is working, when I connect an external microphone(headset) it still take input from internal one. In sound settings I ...
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1answer
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How do I install update the BIOS of my Acer Aspire 4820TG laptop?
The BIOS update for the Acer Aspire 4820TG is distributed as a zip file, containing a Windows executable and a DOS executable.
How do I get this installed under Ubuntu without resorting to installing ...
