Acer 4520 and Ubuntu hardy

I’m Using 2 OS Windows XP and Ubuntu Hardy Heron On My Acer 4520
The Specification :
AMD Turion X2 Dual Core 2.0GHz
DDR2 Memory 2 GB
HDD 12GB SATA - VGA nVIDIA 256MB
WiFi - DVDR/W Super Multi - Bluetooth 2.0+EDR
1.3 Mpx Camera - Card Reader
14.1" Wide XGA - Weight 2.49 Kg

I Have Installed Windows XP first and Then Ubuntu.

I’m Using Ubuntu8.04 amd64 for my Laptop. Wired Network, Sound Card is Otomatically Detected. For Nvidia Accelerated Driver, I Installed it from System - Administration - Hardware Driver. Then i make check for Nvidia Accelerated Driver. after that it will download the .deb package and require restart.
After That my Screen resolution become 1280*800.
If it doesn’t work you can use commadn in Terminal :

#sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-new

For Using Crystal Eye Webcam

#sudo apt-get install cheese

For Using Wifi ( I am using Broadcom )
You can use my experience on my latest article
For another broadcom version you can follow this article

There is one problem that i’m not yet find for the solution. My Modem still can’t Work ( I am using Agere Modem )
If you have any solution, please reply to this article

Install Another aplication :

Internet Explorer for Linux - Make sure you have installed cabextract

wget http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
tar zxvf ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
cd ies4linux-*
./ies4linux

Install Flash Player

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

Add important Repository ( From this repository, you can install realplayer, mplayer, googleearth and another important package )

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update

1 Response to “Acer 4520 and Ubuntu hardy”


  1. Gravatar Icon 1 tuteh

    wedew…nggak ngerti huehehehehe :D Comment posted using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 on Windows Windows XP

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