Acer AspireOne ZG5 (AAO 150)

Most common functionalities are working out of the box on Ubuntu.

10.04 LTS

Works out of the box

Minor problems

This functions don't work with the mentioned versions, but update fixes all issues.

RH Card Reader hot-plug

a combination of adding these pciehp options to /etc/default/grub:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="pciehp.pciehp_force=1 pciehp.pciehp_poll=1 elevator=noop quiet splash"

and the advice from an older version of these pages:

Create a file /etc/modprobe.d/aspireone.conf with the following content:

####################################################################
# Module options for the Acer AspireOne
#
# Enable USB card reader
options pciehp pciehp_force=1
install sdhci for i in 2381 2382 2383 2384; do /usr/bin/setpci -d 197b:$i AE=47; done; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install sdhci

Add the following line to the end of you existing /etc/modules file:

pciehp

..seems to have fixed the RH Card Reader hotplug for me on 10.04

10.10

Works out of the box

Minor problems

Recommendations

Add this to your /etc/rc.local to enable Acer Aspire One Fan driver fan control:

11.04

Works out of the box

Minor problems

Recommendations

Configure modprobe options to enable Acer Aspire One Fan driver fan control:

echo "options acerhdf kernelmode=1" >> /etc/modprobe.d/local.conf
modprobe -r acerhdf
modprobe acerhdf

You can also specify the fanon and fanoff temperatures as well as the polling interval of the temperature sensor with the following options to acerhdf:

You can check the temperature reported by the sensor with

cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp

12.04

Works out of the box

Not working

Minor problems

Recommendations

Configure modprobe options to enable Acer Aspire One Fan driver fan control:

echo "options acerhdf kernelmode=1" >> /etc/modprobe.d/local.conf
modprobe -r acerhdf
modprobe acerhdf

You can also specify the fanon and fanoff temperatures as well as the polling interval of the temperature sensor with the following options to acerhdf:

You can check the temperature reported by the sensor with

cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp

12.10

Works out of the box

Recommendations

Configure modprobe options to enable Acer Aspire One Fan driver fan control:

echo "options acerhdf kernelmode=1" >> /etc/modprobe.d/local.conf
modprobe -r acerhdf
modprobe acerhdf

You can also specify the fanon and fanoff temperatures as well as the polling interval of the temperature sensor with the following options to acerhdf:

You can check the temperature reported by the sensor with

cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp

See Also

External Links


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AspireOne/AOA150 (last edited 2015-01-02 02:14:16 by 67-221-101-46)