Ubuntu and Acer

Now I'm thinking of downloading the last ubuntu version and make a partition on my hdd and put it. I own an acer and I'm wondering if I would have any problems with the installation or with the drivers.
Ubuntu detect all the drivers at the moment? Because the intel wifi or the ati x700 have linux drivers?
Thanks!

 

ATI has Linux drivers but you'll have to follow these instructions to install them. Remember to choose either metod 1 or 2, don't do both at the same time.

I don't thing Ubuntu will have any problem with the rest of the hardware.

 

And with the intel's wireless card? If I only have one partition now and I put the partition magic to do another, this I have to make fat32 format?

I can't open this link, but if I go to ati's web page and download the dirver for linux that they have, it'll work fine?

 

You might want to take a look at the Linux on Laptops website. It's a great resource for answering questions like yours.

Under the Acer section, I see five links to webpages where people described their experiences installing Linux on that particular laptop. Here's a guy who installed an older version of Ubuntu (5.04) on that laptop. His writeup is in Spanish, no less! There are also a couple in English, though the only one involving the latest version of Ubuntu is in French. Do you know French?

 

You know, Ubuntu/Kubuntu have some LiveDVD's that you can burn and just stick in. If it boots up, you can see what all works, and see if there's anything you might have to tweak to get to work. I know I put a Kubuntu LiveDVD in my T43 here, and it detected everything, including the wireless, ran at native resolution, and connected to an open WAP in my neighborhood, all automagically. You can start the LiveDVD/CD, and play with the settings, see if you can get it to work, all without changing anything on your computer. If you think it's worth it, you just click an icon and install it.

For the Intel wireless, it'll probably detect it. For the ATI card, you just change some of the options on the repositories in apt (I think you just need to enable multiverse), and then apt-get install fglrx. It's really pretty straightforward... don't need to go through ATI. This isn't Windows any more, ahidalgo

 

Thanks!!!
I'll see those pages and try to install ubuntu in my computer. If I have any problem I'll put it here

 

One minor note on this... the most recent versions of Xorg do have open-source support for the x700 card including a fair level of 3d (OpenGL) acceleration. See this page for more info.

I doubt that the current version of Ubuntu has a recent enough version of Xorg to autodetect an x700 and get full 3d support out of the box, but the next version (due out in a month or so) probably will.

 

It does have Xorg 7 in Ubuntu 6.06, just probably not the CVS version.

 

Thanks!! I have downloaded it yet, so when I can partition the HDD I'll install the last ubuntu version

 

qtparded/gparted (an open-source partition resizer and formatting tool) is included in the CD's for ubuntu/kubuntu. Go ahead and stick the livecd in and play with it

 

How many GB's could I give to the new partition of linux? There is a boot loader better thant partition magic software? Windows detects linux installation?

I have some questions.
First is the installation. The latest ubuntu version has any problems? Because I read some web pages and some people said that had some problems during the instalation of ubuntu, but I think that were previous versions. For example, some problems were during the uncompresing of linux or extracting packages.

Second: The battery problem and detection of all parts. In the latest ubuntu version is fixed the battery problem? Wifi, sound, touchpad will be detected?

Thanks!

 

There always CAN be problems, just like there are with Windows. Windows XP won't install on SATA drives before SP2 Things like that.

But that's why you use the LiveCD. You can see if the wifi works, the sound, the touchpad, and if the battery is detected, all without changing ANYTHING on your computer. And for size, I'd recommend about 10GB. More if you want, but 10GB usually sits well for most people who're just starting with Linux and don't use it as a primary OS (media and such.) I personally split about 60%/40% Win/Linux on my laptop.

 

5 Gb is OK.

Ubuntu includes the GRUB and LILO boot loaders, both are very mature and stable.

Windows can read ext2/ext3 filesystems; see here.

I haven't experienced problems installing Ubuntu on four different computers, including a notebook.

You can download a live CD and boot with it to see if it detects your hardware, but except ATI and Vidia cards, I haven't experienced any other problem.

 

I don't know what I done yesterday, but I used partition magic 8 for make a new partition on my hdd. OK, I made a new partition off 5gb and said to partition magic that it was for install linux.

After rebooting the notebook it goes to blue screen of windows saying that is making the requested operations. But when it rebooted again it said: System error, SO not found ( or semthing like that) so I can't install linux (ubuntu or kubuntu) and I can't boot windows XP. After some minutes of trying thinking that I haven't lost all my hdd I tried antoher thing. I try to install XP on this new partition I have made for linux and boot XP.

When I installed XP my surprise was that my original partition wasn't there. I installed partition magic and run it again, and the program said that C: was hidden. I turned it on, and change the boot to active.
After all, I was able to rebooting my notebook with my past configuration and format the partition that I made for installing linux. I put fat32 format and leaved it.

So, now I have some questions: I don't know if I can install linux on my hdd now. If I download some boot manager. Choose what partition I want to run and try to boot this new partition and when it says that this partition doesen't have SO install here my linux.
Or left it, install VMware ( virtualization software) and run linux there.

I wanted a new partition so I can run linux without windows, and try to enjoy linux at maximum. But seeing this I would opt for my past experience and install linux using VMware.
I need some suggestions.

Thanks!!!


*EDIT* Now I'm reading some web pages to how to install linux in yous system. I think I can install kubuntu or ubuntu, but I'm not sure.
Now I have to run partition magic and make a swap partition and the 5gb partition convert to ext3 with partition magic. After that run the ubuntu cd when booting the notebook and install it ( or start with the live cd and after install it) in this ext3 partition. I hope that it is ok