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On Tuesday 22 February 2011 21:51:43 walt wrote: |
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> On 02/22/2011 09:51 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> > I finally got my Acer 4551 100% functional under 64-bit Gentoo linux. |
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> Congratulations :) |
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> > Thanks to various people on various linux forums who spelled out the |
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> > answers, and also to "Mr. Google" for helping me find them. There are |
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> > several tweaks that are required to get things working... |
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> Thank you for the excellent write-up. I still don't have a laptop or a |
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> notebook just because I expect to suffer a lot of pain before I could |
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> actually use it for anything, and you've just confirmed my suspicions :) |
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> By the time I read the last of your 'several' tweaks, my blood pressure |
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> must have been 250 because I can definitely feel your pain. |
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> Thanks for sharing :) |
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Thanks indeed to Walter for providing such a detailed howto - now time to |
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repeat in the wiki ;-) |
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I don't think that it is particularly painful to get a laptop to work (well, |
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most of the time). You can get a laptop up and running with a full desktop |
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within a day or so, but it will of course take longer to troubleshoot pesky |
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devices/drivers and bespoke configurations. That can happen over a period of |
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days/weeks when free time is available. The frustration of course comes when |
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you want to use something urgently, which you have not configured yet! :-)) |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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