Ubuntu on the Acer Aspire Timeline Series

The Acer Aspire Timeline is a range of laptops with focus on long battery life (up to 8 hours according to Acer).

This documentation aims to include the 3810T/3410T (13.3"), 4810T (14,1") and 5810T (15,6"). (The Acer Travelmate Timeline series is very similar, including 8371, 8471, 8571.)

Unless otherwise specified, this set of documentation refers to the most recent non-testing release of Ubuntu.

Issues & Notes

9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)

• About 6,5 hours battery life (confirmed?)
• Problems with DVD-rom?
• No suspend to ram

9.10 alpha 3 (Karmic Koala)

• Still problem with suspend
• Wireless kill switch always defaults to on on every boot (the switch is the wireless symbol right above F10, even if it does not look like a switch) - fixed in 2.6.31-5 (apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade for Karmic).

• on a clean install grub failed to include windows vista (this is not a 3810t-specific problem, and will probably be fixed in later releases - http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/karmic/alpha3#Known%20issues)

9.10 alpha 2 (Karmic Koala)

• About 7,5 hours battery life (confirmed?)
• Most issues solved
• Still no suspend to ram

Getting Started

Please visit the AspireTimeline/Installation section first.

For a general set of fixes post-install, please check AspireTimeline/Fixes.

For tips and suggestions on getting the most out of your Ubuntu install on the Timeline, please see AspireTimeline/Using.

References

This set of documentation is intended to organize and clarify the resources available for the Timeline.

• 3810T thread (the main source, thanks to Tokyahead and all the contributers for that great thread)

• 4810T thread

• 4810TG thread

• 5810T thread

• all threads tagged acertimeline

The header and general design of this set of documentation was shamelessly copied from the AA1 documentation.