Acer AO722-BZ454
In addition, a discussion of general setup is available from the main article on the Acer Aspire One, although the hardware is quite different. A discussion of various other issues and tweaks is available in the Ubuntu forums.
Configuration
Video
The xf86-video-ati
driver is recommended, read ATI for more information.
Networking
Wireless ethernet driver brcmsmac
should automatically load at startup.
This should no longer be needed, but in the past, the modules bcma
and acer-wmi
caused conflicts and had to be blacklisted.
Setup may be further configured by reading Wireless network configuration.
Audio
Initially, audio does not work, except for beeping. The problem may be corrected by editing /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf
and replacing every instance of card 0
with card 1
. (This also works on the AO725-0488.)
As of kernel 3.1, the headphone jack is correctly supported.
HDMI Audio issue
The hdmi video display works fine out of box (as of 2014-1-1, using ATI driver), however, HDMI audio does not work. Searching the forum, there is some indication this is due to video driver issue.
Beep on Power Cord Plug-In/Out
To lower the loudness of the beep when the power cord to an acceptable level, open alsamixer ,select the HDA ATI SB sound card using F6
and mute the Beep by using arrow chars and then pressing m
Dual Boot
See Windows and Arch dual boot for general information. Note that this netbook does not come with recovery CDs. If an attempt to set up dual boot goes awry and you cannot boot the machine at all, or cannot boot into Windows, you can restore the original Windows configuration by booting into /dev/sda1, the recovery partition, as if it were an ordinary Windows installation. The recovery program says it will wipe the whole disk but will only wipe the partition on which Windows resides. (You can install grub from the Arch installation media onto a thumbdrive and take it from there.)