[Solved] Acer 5750G

Jobbe · 2012-10-17 13:34:36

Allright.

A month ago I installed Ubuntu on my laptop, to be used in a dual boot situation (Win7/Ubuntu 12.04) - and I must say I've been using Ubuntu 90% of the time.
I just bought a SSD to be used with my laptop, and since I'm gonna install the laptop from scratch, then I thought, why not install Debian - or another os.

I researched a little, and found that I, with Arch, can build my work environment basically from scratch - the thing is that I like installing everything myself, so I know what I got. I don't want a lot of programs preinstalled. Therefore Debian, where I basically can do that!

I would say I know the basics of Linux, and I'm willing to learn!

I just got a few questions, before I decide whether I'll install Ubuntu (Tested, and working), Debian (Tried it once, need a bit of tweaking) or Arch (Not tested)

I need to know, if anyone here have tried Arch, and can confirm it works, on an Acer 5750G laptop.

One of the most important things that I bought the laptop for is the HUAWEI Mobile Connect 3G Network Card - that must work!

I got the i3 version with Intel GFX and 3G instead of Bluetooth
http://support.acer.com/acerpanam/noteb … Gsp2.shtml

Last edited by Jobbe (2012-10-18 00:58:43)

kajman · 2012-10-17 13:57:25

Hi,

I can confirm only that it works like a charm on Acer Aspire 5740G

Since you're reinstalling anyway, why not try it? It's a great learning experience even if it won't work for some reason (I don't see why it shouldn't).

cheers,
kajman

Jobbe · 2012-10-17 15:13:55

Thanks ! Anything that needs tweaking or does it work "out of the box" ?

And that is exactly my point reinstalling anyways so yes i will definitely try arch! just want to know about any problems before I start, so I could prepare for it

kajman · 2012-10-17 15:19:15

I don't recall any hardware specific problems. I've once had some issues with touchpad physical left button, but it was more xfce then arch related.

I hope you'll have as much fun as I did when installing arch the first time. It is a really great distribution with excellent wikis. And theres always something new to tweak/learn

Jobbe · 2012-10-17 19:27:54

Thanks, i'm burning the CD right now, so soon my laptop will be running Arch linux ! I must say, there is quick response in this forum

Jobbe · 2012-10-17 21:13:58

Allright, i got to the part where i'm configuring the wireless network, i need a firmware file for the wlan card. And i'm unsure which i should get .. any suggestions ?

Thaodan · 2012-10-17 21:33:20

Yout notebook uses 'Atheros AR5B97' as wlan card or not?
If yes it shoud be inclued in the kernel since 2.6.x

Jobbe · 2012-10-17 22:13:59

i skipped the wifi part - thought i could fix it later. it seems to be the broadcom BCM43227 (according to lspci)

Jobbe · 2012-10-18 00:27:18

Oh hoy! .. Seems I allmost got it working! The only thing I need to get fixed now, is the 3G modem - but I hope I'll get that working in a bit!

Update: Yup, got it working!

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Jobbe · 2012-10-18 01:00:48

Ok. Last update.

Conclusion to my question. It works very well!

For a total Arch newbie, that I am, then it will take about 6 hours to get the Acer 5750G laptop fully working with Arch. The 3G modem was tricky but I got it working at last.

Now, next move is to install on my SSD when I get home from my vacation, and then write down everything I do, so I can repeat!

Thanks to those who replied!!

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kajman · 2012-10-18 08:44:21

I'm glad I could encourage you a little to try arch and that you made it work eventually

Jobbe · 2012-10-19 22:09:01

FYI: Before when i installed this on my HDD (to test before i installed my SSD) then the laptop booted in about 60 seconds .. Clean install. With the SSD it boots in about 15 seconds .. AMAZING!!

Thaodan · 2012-10-20 14:43:54

My Thinpad Edge E530 has an HDD but it boots in about 3seonds for BIOS/EFI + 5 seconds for Grub, 3-4 seconds for the real boot and 2 seconds for login.

WonderWoofy · 2012-10-20 14:52:37

@Thaodan, could post your output of

$ systemd-analyze && systemd-analyze blame

I am very intersted to see what you got going on there. That is of course, assuming you are running systemd.

@OP, if you feel as though you might have learned enough to get a wiki page going for your specific laptop model, I encourage you to do so. To excellent documentation in our wiki is all community contributed. People like you learn something and think it would be great to help others. Don't be scared about not being an expert either, as any changes that need to be made will come, and it would be a great starting point for other contributors.

Thaodan · 2012-10-20 15:08:53

WonderWoofy wrote:

@Thaodan, could post your output of
$ systemd-analyze && systemd-analyze blame
I am very intersted to see what you got going on there. That is of course, assuming you are running systemd.
.

:

As requested:

bidar@loki:~|17:06$ systemd-analyze && systemd-analyze blame
Startup finished in 2842ms (kernel) + 10633ms (userspace) = 13476ms
  3813ms NetworkManager.service
  2325ms avahi-daemon.service
  2252ms systemd-logind.service
  1376ms lm_sensors.service
  1189ms bluetooth.service
   903ms modem-manager.service
   743ms rpc-idmapd.service
   736ms systemd-modules-load.service
   523ms systemd-vconsole-setup.service
   493ms systemd-binfmt.service
   484ms colord.service
   436ms systemd-remount-fs.service
   386ms console-kit-log-system-start.service
   351ms systemd-udevd.service
   349ms dev-mqueue.mount
   346ms systemd-udev-trigger.service
   337ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
   268ms dev-hugepages.mount
   268ms console-kit-daemon.service
   248ms sys-kernel-debug.mount
   218ms proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.mount
   199ms rc-local.service
   191ms wpa_supplicant.service
   188ms colord-sane.service
   183ms systemd-user-sessions.service
   170ms var-lib-nfs-rpc_pipefs.mount
   160ms tmp.mount
   143ms home.mount
    97ms upower.service
    52ms systemd-sysctl.service
    38ms rtkit-daemon.service
    23ms boot.mount
     5ms udisks.service
     1ms sys-fs-fuse-connections.mount

Björn

Jobbe · 2012-10-20 20:34:03

WonderWoofy wrote:

@Thaodan, could post your output of
$ systemd-analyze && systemd-analyze blame
I am very intersted to see what you got going on there. That is of course, assuming you are running systemd.
@OP, if you feel as though you might have learned enough to get a wiki page going for your specific laptop model, I encourage you to do so. To excellent documentation in our wiki is all community contributed. People like you learn something and think it would be great to help others. Don't be scared about not being an expert either, as any changes that need to be made will come, and it would be a great starting point for other contributors.

I thought of doing a wiki about my laptop, it's not really that hard to get working!
Onlt tricky party I can't documentate 100% is the 3G part .. as I grope my way to getting it working (fiddled with sakis3g untill it worked..)

also my laptops boot process:

Startup finished in 1710ms (kernel) + 2546ms (userspace) = 4256ms
  2142ms mysqld.service
   406ms NetworkManager.service
   319ms httpd.service
   197ms systemd-binfmt.service
   186ms systemd-udev-trigger.service
   145ms systemd-logind.service
   116ms console-kit-log-system-start.service
   105ms systemd-user-sessions.service
    79ms systemd-vconsole-setup.service
    79ms systemd-remount-fs.service
    74ms dev-hugepages.mount
    73ms sys-kernel-debug.mount
    60ms dev-mqueue.mount
    56ms systemd-sysctl.service
    50ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
    46ms systemd-udevd.service
    43ms colord-sane.service
    41ms rtkit-daemon.service
    32ms colord.service
    32ms udisks2.service
    24ms logmein-hamachi.service
    23ms proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.mount
    17ms wpa_supplicant.service
    15ms console-kit-daemon.service
    14ms modem-manager.service
    13ms tmp.mount
    10ms accounts-daemon.service
     9ms upower.service
     1ms sys-fs-fuse-connections.mount

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