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Models covered
Acer Aspire Timeline 4810T

Sub-models (LIST OF MODEL REFERENCE NUMBER) options :
- Video card: Intel GMA 4500MHD
- Screen size: 14" wide HD LED LCD
- Wireless card: Acer Nplify 802.11 a/b/g/Draft-N
- Disk: Hitachi HTS54503 320GB Sata
- Ram: 4GB DDR3
- Optical Device: TSSTcorp DVD+-RW TS-U633A
- Bluetooth: BCM2046 Bluetooth Wireless
- ?WebCam: Suyin Corp. HD Video ?WebCam
- Other options, like fingerprint reader, bluetooth...

Overall Status

Core Components
Boot Standard Kernel:
LAN network card:
Detect CD/DVD:
Detect hard drives:
Extra Features
CPU Frequency Scaling
Hibernation
Sleep / Suspend
Xorg
- OpenGL
- Resize-and-Rotate(randr)	[?]
Switch to External Screen	[?]
Mouse
- Built-in (Trackpoint)	[-]
- Built-in (Touchpad)
Modem	[-]
Wireless/Wifi
Keyboard's Hotkeys	[?]

Legend :
= OK ; Unsupported(No Driver) ; $/!\$ = Error (Couldn't get it working); [?] Unknown, Not Test ; [-] Not-applicable
= Configuration Required; = Only works with a non-free driver and or firmware

Important Note

First thing to do is load into the BIOS and change the SCSI setup from AHCI to IDE, this is especially needed if you plan to use Dual booting with the pre installed Vista. I have found that this is needed even just running Linux for the CDROM to work correctly.

All testing has been done under Debian 5.0.3 with Kernel version 2.6.30-1-amd64 #1 SMP Sat Aug 15 18:09:19 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Not Working

When going from battery to AC or AC to battery backlight does not adjust, Gnome will show a notification that it is changing the brightness but the brightness does not change.
Showing the correct time of battery power left in Gnome Power Manager, as theses laptop are suppose to have 8+ battery life. And by the looks of it ACPI seems to be off as well.
Touchpad on/off button

turning touchpad off

Oct 12 18:35:33 laptop kernel: [30928.812863] atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xf2 on isa0060/serio0).
Oct 12 18:35:33 laptop kernel: [30928.812872] atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e072 ' to make it known.
Oct 12 18:35:33 laptop kernel: [30928.824395] atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0xf2 on isa0060/serio0).
Oct 12 18:35:33 laptop kernel: [30928.824403] atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e072 ' to make it known.

turning touchpad on

Oct 12 18:35:37 laptop kernel: [30932.842002] atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xf1 on isa0060/serio0).
Oct 12 18:35:37 laptop kernel: [30932.842010] atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e071 ' to make it known.
Oct 12 18:35:37 laptop kernel: [30932.849929] atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0xf1 on isa0060/serio0).
Oct 12 18:35:37 laptop kernel: [30932.849938] atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e071 ' to make it known.

Configuration

Display

(not covered yet)

Audio

(not covered yet)

Mouse

(not covered yet)

Power Management

Backlight function keys, refer to http://quail.southernvaleslug.org/webblog/archives/168

WiFi

Refer to http://wiki.debian.org/iwlagn

Ethernet

Refer to http://quail.southernvaleslug.org/webblog/archives/105

Modem

(not covered yet)

System Summary

lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a40] (rev 07)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a42] (rev 07)
00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a43] (rev 07)
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:2937] (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [8086:2938] (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:293c] (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:293e] (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:2940] (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:2942] (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:2934] (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:2935] (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:2936] (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 [8086:2939] (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 [8086:293a] (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation ICH9M-E LPC Interface Controller [8086:2917] (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller [8086:2929] (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:2930] (rev 03)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) Thermal Subsystem [8086:2932] (rev 03)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Attansic Technology Corp. Device [1969:1063] (rev c0)
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Wireless WiFi Link 5100 [8086:4232]

lsusb

lsusb -v | grep -E '\<(Bus|iProduct|bDeviceClass|bDeviceProtocol)' 2>/dev/null

Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceProtocol         0 Full speed (or root) hub
  iProduct                2 UHCI Host Controller
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceProtocol         0 Full speed (or root) hub
  iProduct                2 UHCI Host Controller
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceProtocol         0 Full speed (or root) hub
  iProduct                2 UHCI Host Controller
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceProtocol         0 Full speed (or root) hub
  iProduct                2 UHCI Host Controller
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 064e:a133 Suyin Corp. 
  bDeviceClass          239 Miscellaneous Device
  bDeviceProtocol         1 Interface Association
  iProduct                1 HD Video WebCam
      (Bus Powered)
  bDeviceClass          239 Miscellaneous Device
  bDeviceProtocol         1 Interface Association
  (Bus Powered)
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceProtocol         0 Full speed (or root) hub
  iProduct                2 EHCI Host Controller
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceProtocol         0 Full speed (or root) hub
  iProduct                2 UHCI Host Controller
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceProtocol         0 Full speed (or root) hub
  iProduct                2 EHCI Host Controller
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0a5c:2151 Broadcom Corp. 
  bDeviceClass          224 Wireless
  bDeviceProtocol         1 Bluetooth
  iProduct                2 BCM2046 Bluetooth Device
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceProtocol         0 Full speed (or root) hub
  iProduct                2 UHCI Host Controller

USB Host controllers entries (without OHCI, UHCI, EHCI) are removed too.

Resources

Attachments

Some configuration files and sample outputs.

Useful Links

Acer Timeline 3810T http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1165087 <= this thread is a mixture of 3810T, 4810T, 5810T models
Acer Timeline 4810T http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1211009

Credits

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