I found the following link for a system that may be the closest to yours. Anyhow, if you look at points 2.1 and 2.3. there may be an issue with the BIOS on that system and you will need to configure. Good luck, Curtis Here's the link: http://www.lirmm.fr/~yousfi/divers/acer/ Also check out: http://www.linux-laptop.net/ for any linux notebook questions.