Ubuntu 8.04 on the Acer Aspire 9920

[spiro mason]

2008/4/8, Jeroen Vriesman <linuxificator at gmail.com>:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> got myself a nice laptop this weekend, the acer aspire 9920, I installed
> ubuntu 8.04 beta, amd 64 on it, using software raid on the two disks.
>
> Most of it is working great, even the nvidia stuff is just a matter of
> installing the drivers from the package manager, the camera works right out
> of the box, many thanks to the ubuntu team.
>
> I have some issues, and maybe someone here wants to say something about
> it:
>
> 1) The memory.
> It's a bit weird, the machine has 2GB of memory, but the "free" command
> only shows 1G, any idea why?
> 2) The SD card reader, a TI thing (I will post lspci later). It works only
> once, doesn't matter if I just pull out the SD card or umount it, the first
> time it works, after that I need a reboot to make it work a second time.
> 3) The audio:
> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio
> Controller (rev 03)
> Works, but has very low volume, I can see all the stuff in the volume
> control, but only get reasonable volume if I set everything to max.
> But, the system beep is loud! with max volume the beep on the terminal
> wakes up everyone! (yep, these are the things I need to do in the middle of
> the night).
>
> Well, that was it, thanks in advance for any feedback.
>
>
>

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> Hi,
I've got the similar problems with sound on my acer laptop aspire 5920g
where I installed ubuntu 8.04; many of them I resolve with kmix and alsamix
settings. I wrote that only as na idea / suggestion.
many luck, Spiro
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