The lowest I've managed to drop power consumption to was 10 watts (per powertop) with WiFi on and screen brightness at its lowest - which is still usable, though my comfort zone resides between 30 to 40% (I can't stand brighter than that, I'm a night creature). I've read somewhere people stating that they'd been able to drop it to 9 watts, whereas Windows 7 registered 7 watts.
Install and run powertop. Kill all processes which wake the machine up often (Like Firefox, or even the wmii status bar) (0~1 Watt). Follow the hints in powertop (Enable USB auto suspend and ALPM) (1~2 Watt). Associate your wlan, don't leave it hanging (1 Watt). Enable laptop mode (echo 6000 > /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode) and spin your harddrive down (hdparm -Y /dev/sda) (1 Watt). Got it down to ~8 Watt and 5.6 hours of battery.
And read _everything_ on lesswatts.org.
The lowest I've managed to drop power consumption to was 10 watts (per powertop) with WiFi on and screen brightness at its lowest - which is still usable, though my comfort zone resides between 30 to 40% (I can't stand brighter than that, I'm a night creature). I've read somewhere people stating that they'd been able to drop it to 9 watts, whereas Windows 7 registered 7 watts.
... and Dexter IS amazing. What a season finale!
]]>As for battery life, I haven't timed it, but it's been my experience that running Linux will always get lower battery life than when running Windows for the same hardware. That Ubuntu link byzkarl provided may have some tips to get an extra 30 minutes or so of life.
I love Dexter. Season 4 was amazing
]]>On the fan, you need to use build a special module, which the ubuntu users have figured out. Check out this guide http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8409272, and look for the acerhdf part.
I run it on both Arch Linux and Slackware, and it works fine.
Thank you, very much! It did the trick. I was wondering about that one. Incredible how I didn't remember looking there
BTW, there's an entry at the AUR for that very module which you will still have to patch for your BIOS version if it is different from 0.3120
Thanks again
]]>I run it on both Arch Linux and Slackware, and it works fine.
]]>I had noticed you had updated the Wiki page, as I was going to update it myself with the info regarding the wireless driver. Just a couple o'quickies: how much battery time have you managed to squeeze out of the 1410 and what is your glxgears result? I know it's not supposed to be a benchmark, just wanted to make sure it's running as it should.
Other than that, I've also noticed my fan working pretty much most of the time. It's not going at full rpm (not the lowest speed either), but it's audible, same thing happening there? Is there any Acer specific ACPI module one should load?
I'm pretty satisfied with it, even though battery life could be a little better: I got 4 hours and 13 minutes while browsing, watching a 50 minute episode (Dexter), and listening to some music. Not bad, but nothing stellar, too. Performance is pretty surprising, though.
]]>What ethernet driver is your 1410 using? lspci doesn't even report an ethernet card. Not that I'd use it much, but when I'm home and there's a cable near, it would be good to use the Gigabit ethernet.
I had a problem with ethernet as well, but I think a recent update has fixed the issue. Make sure atl1c shows up when you run lsmod.
bladesonfire wrote:I get a lot of hard drive problems post-installation. Before installing, make sure to change SATA mode from AHCI to IDE. This will get rid of the error messages as well as speed up the time of boot. Does anyone know why this happening?
Could you post the error messages please?
Sorry, I don't have the error messages to post. I recently had my laptop returned to me from Acer after they replaced the motherboard and hard drive, and I no longer get any error messages when in SATA mode.
Some quick notes regarding the 1410: Please add your full model number to the wiki to avoid confusion.
It's a wiki, so please feel free to edit as you please. Other than that, I think it'll be easier to keep all the information in one place. I've updated the wiki to hopefully be easier to show multiple configurations.
Added a short tutorial on how to get the mic working on the wiki page.
Thanks for posting this! I just removed the entry as latest updates for alsa is 1.0.22, which is what you were compiling. Tested the internal mic and it works.
I have made other updates to the Wiki, including two posts: one that lists specifications for the different models, the other which has tips and tricks, so hopefully people find it useful.
]]>What ethernet driver is your 1410 using? lspci doesn't even report an ethernet card. Not that I'd use it much, but when I'm home and there's a cable near, it would be good to use the Gigabit ethernet.
]]>Edit: Ok got it working. First install xf86-input-synaptics and second look through these threads: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=77400 http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=77190. Im going to update the Aspire 1410 Wiki as well.
Looks like arch has set foot an yet another machine of mine.
thanks.
]]>Added a short tutorial on how to get the mic working on the wiki page.
What is the sound card chip name (it is shown in alsamixer) ?
]]>I get a lot of hard drive problems post-installation. Before installing, make sure to change SATA mode from AHCI to IDE. This will get rid of the error messages as well as speed up the time of boot. Does anyone know why this happening?
Could you post the error messages please?
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