[ubuntu-uk] Acer Laptop

[Robert McWilliam]

On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 16:18:51 +0000
"Celia Lawton-Livingstone" <lawli56 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm interested in putting Ubuntu 6.10 on my Acer laptop, probably as
> a dual boot to begin with.  How do I find out whether the hardware is
> compatible and will i need to download a program to control power
> management?

Look here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/Acer

If the exact model you have isn't listed there might be other models
with the same components so you can check with them. 

With respect to power management gnome-power-manager will be installed
by default on ubuntu.

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