So the Vista Rescue DVDs are made and I can install the “REAL” operating system on the laptop. Hurray.
Just to make it easy for searching – The laptop is a ACER Aspire 8920.
Booting up the system is not hard – just go in and Change to bootorder so that th DVD/CD is fist and the machne nice and easy boots up the kubuntu x64 DVD.
Installing the system went quickly, and no problems. The screen is not what is should be but I need to get the nvidia binary drives installed, but I kind of expected that.
Rebooting and up came kubuntu – 4 times as quick as Vista.
Network Card problem
But im missing my network and the network card is not found. Time to do some googeling.
I found a link that explains exactly the problem im having: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=770173&highlight=no+ethernet+acer
So here is what i did to solve this (more or less what they described in the thread):
- Download the driver source code from here
- Unpacked the sip files, and then unpacked the rar file with unrar
- Put the driver on a usb stick and moved it to my new laptop.
- moved the files to /usr/local/src
- cd into /usr/local(src/LinuxDrivers/L1e_Lan/l1e-l2e-linux-v1.0.0.4/src
- I founf one problem with the Makefile – it was accessing the atl1e.7 file from the directory one level up, so copy the man page there (cp atl1e.7 ..)
- Build the driver with: sudo KBUILD_NOPEDANTIC=1 make
- installed it with: sudo KBUILD_NOPEDANTIC=1 make install
- Tested the driver with: sudo modprobe atl1e
Perfect – it worked. I now tested the system by rebooting it – and perfect – its ok. So now the networks problem is solve – on to next.
nVidia Binary driver
So the next thing is to get the system toi handle the new nice 3D card so i can play all my games and probably test the compis manager to have cool effects also.
The best tool it seems to do this is Envy so time to install that.
sudo apt-get envyng-qt
This will ask for another 40 or so libs so go ahead and install that.
Well that did not work. Got some error about not finding my card.
Well the we start trying to install the nvdiadriver manually, but I still got some errors. Well its late now so lets try more later.
Hi,
thanks for your postings, they really helped me to set up my aspire 8920. The only thing I didn’t get running is sound. Does it work for you ?
thanks,
Oliver
Hi there and thanks Oliver. Yes – that was one reason for doing the blog. Helping others so they dont have to explore all the problems i had getting it to work.
And no – i haven’t gotten the sound to work yet – I have some links and notes to different sources but haven’t had time to test it. I do know that if I plug in my usb headset that im using for sip phones I do get sound on that so i think that the sound card works, but not the speakers.
But check the page for more info, and I will post more about the installation as I go along.
I hope to be able to do a full Install Howto when I have everything working.
Hail,
What is the vga card that comes with your 8920?
On my 6920 (the 16″ one), it’s a Mobile Intel.
Regards.
The networks card in the 8920 is a Nvidia GeForece 9500m
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