Acer Aspire 6920G
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Setting up a Workstation on Acer Aspire 6920G. (The next one who reads this, Please correct my grammar spelling. English is not my Native Language =D)
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LAN
Owners of this Notebook have an Ethernet LAN chip, which is not supported in kernel 2.6.x (6/November/08 at the time of this writing). They tried a module for the chipset but it's not currently working. The module is called atl1, In latest Arch Linux Release, that module is corrected and is working by default. So If that's you're case you can skip this part. =D.
You need to download the driver and compile it. Here are the links
-- http://www.sunlightrider.net/share/LinuxDrivers.zip -- http://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socket775/P5KPL-CM/LinuxDrivers.zip
Decompress the file and cd into L1e_LAN/src . Since there were some changes at some point in the 2.6 kernel series, this wont compile using just make. Instead use:
KBUILD_NOPEDANTIC=1 make
KBUILD_NOPEDANTIC=1 make install
Then do insmod of the module, to insert it into the running kernel.
insmod atl1e modprobe atl1e
if you check the output of ifconfig -a, the LAN adapter should be there, now you should get it up by using ifconfig ethX up. And Finally we edit /etc/rc.conf to load the module at startup.
MODULES=(... atl1e ...)
Wireless
Try to use the module which comes with the Linux Kernel called iwl3945, Because ipw3945 is not supported by WPA_supplicant.
See Wireless Setup
Multimedia Buttons
As for Multimedia Buttons, I will explain How to make them work using Keytouch. I will share my config file incase you're lazy. xD .
See Keytouch
nVidia Warnings =
If you look down, you can see and nVidia sticker wich says GeForce 9500M GS. Now, I've been trying every nVidia driver version, but still they all have one problem. When you're running X, you can't go back to the tty's . It will just show a black screen, pressing ctrl+alt+f7 will get you back to X Windows. I Tried to report this bug, but it's hard to be listened on those forums. They're total chaos .
You can still enjoy those pretty 3D graphics!. (Please if you get to fix this e-mail me at jsanchezsilvera[at]gmail[dot]com) .
For Installing and Configuration Instructions See Keytouch
Sound
We. 6920G owners, seem to have a realtek ALC889 chipset. By default it won't work. You need to pass a parameter to snd-hda-intel module, and run a program at startup. ONLY SPEAKERS WORK. If you get other things to work, well alsa made some improvements over this chipset, Please Edit =D . I first tried OSS4 as sound system, but i had little volume since the chipset was recognized as a generic Intel. That was months ago though, so you may check it out. Im happy with just speakers.
For Alsa setup see ALSA.
- edit /etc/modprobe.d/sound and add the following line.
options snd-hda-intel model=acer-aspire
- Download hda-verb and compile it.
link Suse-FTP link SunlightRider
Unzip.
gcc hda-verb.c cp hda-verb /usr/bin
Next, edit /etc/rc.local and add the following line. This will make the program run at startup with the parameters needed for making sound work.
hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D0 0x15 SET_EAPD_BTLENABLE 2
- Reboot and enjoy you're Multimedia. I Don't have a 5.1 speaker system. If you do, please complete.