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Broadcom card-reader BCM57765/BCM57785 doesn't work on ubuntu `12.04 LTS

I'm having a hard time with this one. I have an ACER ASPIRE ONE 756 and installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on it. Everything works (with a little tweaking here and there), but unfortunately the build-in ...
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Laptop screen stays blank after lid is reopened

I have an Acer Aspire One KAV60. Beginning with 11.10 through 12.10, every version of Ubuntu causes the screen to stay blank after I open the lid. The only way I can get out of the problem is a hard ...
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Where can I find a driver for the AMD ATI HD 7290 video card on my Aspire One725?

I'm pretty bad with Linux, but I've been using it for five years now, because there's some incredible free software and Open Source is good and all that stuff, and if I ever ran into a problem I could ...
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elf header smaller than expected

I have an aspire one laptop with Ubuntu on it (installed by a friend). It worked fine and I loved it! One day I tried to boot my laptop and the message on the screen was: Elf header smaller than ...
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impossible to make ubuntu go to sleep when battery is low

I have a bit of a problem with my acer aspire one 725 (Ubuntu 16.04) when the battery gets low. At first, I get a message at 10% battery (as expected), and everything is working fine. When my battery ...
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How to remove splash screen from my acer aspire laptop running ubuntu 16.10

I have a Acer laptop running ubuntu 16.10 . I got this laptop from government for my good marks but every time I boot my laptop I have to see a creepy image of our chief minister after this image ...
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How can I set a display resolution of 1366x768 in a Acer Aspire One ZG5?

How can I set a display resolution of 1366x768 in a Acer Aspire One ZG5 within Ubuntu 12.04? The only resolutions available are 1280x768 and 800x600.
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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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Acer laptop brightness and sound(Dolby Home theater) issues

My small problem on my Acer laptop (ASPIRE series), is that the sound seems low and sounds like a crashed-like sound. OS: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Model: Aspire 4736Z. Here it is @DavidFoster Please click ...
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Cannot play media on Acer Aspire One AO751h

I am having problems with playing media on my Acer Aspire One AO751h on Linux. All media is laggy and jumpy, even MP3s and XVid-encoded video. I know that the laptop IS capable of at least playing ...
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Graphics Problem with cedarview and log-in screen

I've recently encountered problems with my netbook when I dabbled with the graphics driver. I recently tried to install the "Cedar Trail in DKMS Format" through Additional Drivers in system settings ...
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Automatic Mute Speakers When Headphones are Unplugged

I listen to music almost any time I am on my computer. I often accidentally unplug my headphones. This has resulted in disturbing others around me. Does any one know of a way to mute the speakers (and ...
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Wifi not working on Acer Aspire One D270 (Broadcom BCM4313 wifi adapter) [duplicate]

brand new baby linux user here, never used Ubuntu or any other linux OS before, so be gentle and use short words! I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my new Acer Aspire One D270-F61C/KF netbook (it's a ...
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Acer Aspire ES1 311 freezes regularly on Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 [duplicate]

I have upgraded the kernel to linux 4.2.5-040205-generic,this problem will not cease to bug me I am currently running my laptop on the nomodeset kernel parameter,and am not able to do anything ...
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wifi not working... driver issues

I'm trying to run Lubuntu 14.04 from a USB boot disk but not getting any wireless network access. I've looked through this forum and it seems to be a fairly common issue but haven't been able to find ...
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How do I install ubuntu on an Acer Aspire 10?

How do I install ubuntu on an Acer Aspire 10 which has windows 8.1 at the moment. The drive is unbootable in my bios, and I really need a working operating system.
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Screen darkens, greys out, and freezes when running sofware centre or update manager

I'm running Ubuntu 15.04 on an acer aspire one 522 netbook. I do have a problem that a month of searching this Q&A Site still hasn't answered. Launching the Ubuntu or Lubuntu software centre or ...
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Poor video playback performance on Aspire One 752

I recently "upgraded" from windows 7 on the Acer Aspire One 752 my wife bought a few years back. Given the state of that particular windows installation the machine is performing a lot better now that ...
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Acer Aspire One runs Ubuntu 14.04 slow

I own a Acer Aspire One that has previously run slow on Microsoft 7, then on Microsoft XP. It now runs Ubuntu 14.04 and it's just as lagging. I'm currently wondering whether the machine is too old ...
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Help to create a script to run on system startup

I have an Acer Aspire One 725. Turning it everything is fine except that the touchpad is not automatically activated. I dislike manually activate ... I want the command "sudo psmode" alone is ...
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Sound lag on Xubuntu

I am having some problems with the audio on my computer, it sounds laggie playing anything (YouTube, VLC, gmusicbrowser), Music or Video. Drivers: PCI Devices Host bridge Intel Corporation System ...
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aod255 netbook wireless connection legitimation problem

Following problem: I tried to install ubuntu 14.04 lts on an Acer Aspire One D255 because the pre-installed windows 7 starter was running annoyingly slow. ubuntu is way faster, but now I got a new ...
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Acer Aspire One, system slow. Graphics problem?

I have a Acer Aspire One Intel Atom CPU N280 1.66GHz 2gb RAM Video: Intel Mobile 945GSE Express Integrated Graphics Controller It was running Windows Vista before, and was very slow. I tried to ...
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Ubuntu unusably slow on Acer Aspire One [duplicate]

It's a dual core Atom 1.33Ghz processor (2G ram). Bought it with Windows 7 illegally installed, but it always ran extremely slow anyway, so I wiped it and installed 14.04. I expected it to be slow, ...
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Acer Aspire One 725

I recently got an Acer Aspire One 725 and I want to install Ubuntu on it. I tried Ubuntu 13.10 32-bit and 64-bit, but I got a lot of errors, and it is running a little slowly. Has anyone tried to ...
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ACER ASPIRE ONE, WIFI Atheros Communications Inc. AR9462 problem with 12.10

I have an Acer Aspire One AO756-Series, equipped with a wifi controller Atheros Communications Inc. AR9462 Everything worked fine on 12.04, but when I upgraded to 12.10 I experimented some issues : ...
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How to boot Ubuntu alongside Windows 8 on Aspire One 765 [duplicate]

I can't seem to get Ubuntu 12.04 or 13.04 installed properly alongside Windows 8 on a netbook Acer Aspire One 765. First thing I tried was with a live usb/bootable usb. This failed after disabling ...
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Atheros AR9485 12.04 wifi problem not solved by hwcrypt

Following a routine update to Ubuntu 12.04, my wireless no longer works - it is constantly seeking a connection but not accepting my password. This has been documented elsewhere, with a fix involving ...
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iPhone 4S won't mount on my laptop running Ubuntu 12.04?

My laptop is an Acer Aspire D257. I have tried a couple commands but I can't get my iPhone 4S to mount, it charges and shows up but just wont mount. Is there any way to get music into my iPhone at all ...
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Windows too large on netbook

I am running ubuntu 12.04 desktop on an Acer Aspire One D255 netbook. Certain windows are too tall for the screen. For example save windows will have the "save" button off the bottom of the screen. ...
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What is the command for sleep/hibernate? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I suspend/hibernate from command line? I have an Acre Aspire One and this netbook does not have a sleep function on the key board and with the removal of the hibernate ...
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Cannot install Ubuntu on an Acer Aspire One 756

I have used Ubuntu before, in virtual machines, but today I decided to make the leap and I bought a netbook to install Ubuntu as a "real" OS alongside Windows. The netbook I bought is an Acer Aspire ...
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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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Manual intervention required for booting - How do I automate this?

I have Ubuntu 12.04 running exclusively on my aspire one 756 netbook, I downloaded the 64bit iso and made my install on a usb-stick. First issue: it did not boot automatically from that stick, I had ...
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Acer Aspire One 725 unstable WiFi connection

I installed 12.10 on an Acer Aspire One 725. There were intermittent problems with the WiFi disconnecting and connecting again and again. I thought this might be an issue with 12.10. So I installed ...
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Does Wubi work on Aspire One with Windows 8 pre-installed?

I bought an Aspire One 725 pre-loaded with Windows 8 (I didn't know what I was getting into). I am a novice when it comes to installing operating systems, so I would like to use a Windows installer so ...
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(Xubuntu) no touchpad or mouse on Aspire One D270

I installed Xubuntu 12.10 on an Aspire One D270 using a Live USB. Initially, the live USB wouldn't boot, but by running sudo apt-get dist-upgrade on it (on a different machine), I upgraded the kernel ...
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Creating abootable USB for use on Acer Aspire One using a Macbook

Last night I tried to upgrade an Acer Aspire One that my granddaughter uses to Ubuntu 12.0.4 but it failed before it finished and now the machine won't start at all. I've had a look at how to create a ...
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Aspire One 722 frequently starts with illuminated black screen (64 Bit)

I installed Ubuntu 12.04 and now updated to 12.10 (64 Bit) on Acer Aspire One 722's in a whole class in school. At my own and some of the pupils computers we have boot problems: The computers start ...
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12.10 on Acer Apsire One D255

Has anyone successfully run 12.10 on an Acer aspire one D255 (I have upgraded to 2GB ram)? 12.10 kept crashing after 2 to 5 minutes on mine, so I reloaded 12.04 which works great.
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screen resolution wrong -> black screen

I've installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on my Acer Aspire One (netbook) with the help of wubi. The installation went fine, but after logging in my screen resolution was wrong. Because of that the desktop and ...
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Installing mesa-utils messes up video driver info

After I installed mesa-utils in order to get rid of the "Unknown Driver" message (see here) I got contradicting info about which driver is actually being used. "System Settings" says: Gallium 0.4 on ...
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Graphic crash after Ubuntu 12.04 minor update [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to fix “The system is running in low-graphics mode” error? My problem came after doing a normal packages update in 12.04 and then reboot to never been able to boot ...
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Wireless connected, IP fetched, but no browsing

I'm using 12.04 on an Acer 722, and just after I've installed MESA drivers to use open source graphics drivers, the wireless connection stopped working. As soon as I've removed bcm STA drivers, the ...
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Acer Aspire One 722 Touchpad Too Sensitive After Upgrade

I just recently got an AO722 and installed Ubuntu 11.10. I was aware of some of the problems with the net-book so I set about tweaking things accordingly. I followed many of the instructions here (...
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Dual boot with Windows 7 (3 partitions) on an Acer Aspire One

I have an Acer Aspire One from the AO725 series, with a 320gb hard drive, preinstalled with Windows 7 home Premium. It has the following three partitions: sda1 (ntfs) 13958 MB - the Acer recover ...
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Acer aspire incompatible with ubuntu 12.04?

Well I'm about to install ubuntu 12.04 on my laptop, which is an acer aspire. I would like to know if is there any incompatibility? I installed this version (12.04) on an acer aspire and had several ...
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Need USB drive to boot aspire one into Ubuntu

I just installed 12.04 LTS onto my Acer Aspire One from a USB thumbdrive, and I cannot reboot unless I boot from the USB drive. If I have the USB drive plugged in, it boots, and it looks like the ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 - Wake issue from suspend. Acer Aspire One 722 [closed]

Same issue as on Ubuntu 11.11 the Aspire 722 won't wake from suspension. This time the fixes for 11.11 are not applicable, Jupiter 0.1.2 isn't helping. I have tried both the Opensource drivers and ...
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Acer Aspire One D255 touchpad movement & clicking issues

After installing Ubuntu 11.10 I've got this problem. My cursor always moves to the upper right-hand corner where the power cog is every time I touch my touchpad even in 1/10 second. After that,I can ...