From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PtHzU-0006aL-Re for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 11:07:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 56CAB1C06B for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 11:07:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D717F1C01B for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 10:30:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwb29 with SMTP id 29so189067wwb.10 for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 02:30:01 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent :references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=J8263/MqD7rAfJ9TQf6yreDYGqB5bIx/qGgmGzOhqzg=; b=H4aeJtnGaJwPgg8MaEyrYpk+YvmpDTXuGrOKofko7rF8c9retWvQXOo8bEzTqmMGXs 5bqzqvgR88iG+tvLk1g0MIbdhV3QQy1sW6O+FJjF66L6OVICLYh2p8eud73UPgUsBakv W76d2iQwPClsASc2+g/7hOHRJue6LqH5jOFcA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=C3LOX6FuWRwQPAVR2tayf5J+RwLi5JipjXH47KEAzUftVoozBmKLKq7dhplBRbRiTk mCMA+GO27B5/hxirp9SQdxK8Tv49s6JYydTue6m0WqFE8LSW31mZFgW6Rj4ng3QXK3cN +9j572iKagAhzgXuqzxI0m1d84gNxm4GwKMsk= Received: by 10.216.159.69 with SMTP id r47mr315184wek.105.1298716201201; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 02:30:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id r57sm792717wes.25.2011.02.26.02.29.58 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 26 Feb 2011 02:29:58 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got my Acer Aspire 4551 notebook 100% functional Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 10:29:59 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.36-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <20110222175158.GB11268@waltdnes.org> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3725613.fO0tW7zFXO"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201102261030.15054.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: a8ff4339817a3a871be384859161b76e --nextPart3725613.fO0tW7zFXO Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tuesday 22 February 2011 21:51:43 walt wrote: > On 02/22/2011 09:51 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: > > I finally got my Acer 4551 100% functional under 64-bit Gentoo linux. >=20 > Congratulations :) >=20 > > Thanks to various people on various linux forums who spelled out the > > answers, and also to "Mr. Google" for helping me find them. There are > > several tweaks that are required to get things working... >=20 > Thank you for the excellent write-up. I still don't have a laptop or a > notebook just because I expect to suffer a lot of pain before I could > actually use it for anything, and you've just confirmed my suspicions :) >=20 > By the time I read the last of your 'several' tweaks, my blood pressure > must have been 250 because I can definitely feel your pain. >=20 > Thanks for sharing :) Thanks indeed to Walter for providing such a detailed howto - now time to=20 repeat in the wiki ;-) I don't think that it is particularly painful to get a laptop to work (well= ,=20 most of the time). You can get a laptop up and running with a full desktop= =20 within a day or so, but it will of course take longer to troubleshoot pesky= =20 devices/drivers and bespoke configurations. That can happen over a period = of=20 days/weeks when free time is available. The frustration of course comes wh= en=20 you want to use something urgently, which you have not configured yet! :-)) =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart3725613.fO0tW7zFXO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk1o1jcACgkQVTDTR3kpaLbd7gCgp66yT5p1RYwGxzXCLz0IOxoL mAgAn0kaFnpS+7jiEgsqNmWU5/dpEJl4 =84xD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3725613.fO0tW7zFXO--