Acer Aspire 5101 Turion 64

[Nigel Ridley]

ac wrote:
> Nigel Ridley wrote:
>> Joan Tur wrote:
>>> Es Divendres, 2 de Març de 2007, en Nigel Ridley va escriure: |
>>> I checked on the web but couldn't find much in English :-( about
>>> installing | Linux on an Acer Aspire 5101 laptop (AMD Turion 64).
>>>  | | Anybody had any joy in installing *ubuntu (or have any info
>>> about any Linux | distro) on this machine. At
>>> http://tuxmobil.org/acer.html you'll find a few 51xx entries
>>> (5100, 5102 and 5112), that will probably match your hardware.
>>>
>>> Hope that helps  ;)
>>>
>>>
>> Thanks but I had already checked out what was there and, apart from
>> a French 'link' (which, as far as I could tell, had nothing to do
>> with the Acer laptop) there wasn't any other useful information. 
>> There was something on Linux Laptops [http://linux-laptop.net/]
>> installing Debian on an Acer Aspire 5102WLMi but the guy had some
>> problems with sound and some other things. Another one 
>> [http://linux-laptop.net/hosted/Fedora-Ubuntu-Acer-Aspire-5102WLMi.html]
>> couldn't even get any of the several distros that he tried to
>> install.
>>
>> So perhaps I will put up the extra cash and get a Lenevo - Kubuntu
>> does install OK on them - yes?
> 
> I saw an adverse comment about linux on a lenovo recently - from a
> student who was disappointed.
> 
> Sorry I cannot find the detailcomment. Just that lenovo are not
> necessarily as committed to linux as ibm were, so I would continue
> checking stuff out if you can, and or use a live CD at least, before
> purchase. I did this in a high street camera shop, one camera did not
> set up easily (live CD kubuntu 6.10, my laptop) another did straight
> away, Bought it! Done! I gave the live CD to the shop assistant.

Back to the drawing board - again!

Blessings,

Nigel

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