On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Kapil Hari Paranjape <kapil@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The page http://wiki.debian.org/DebianAcerOne describes how to set
lenny up on this netbook. I followed the instructions on that page
with some details as below. (You can ignore their instructions for
additional modules except for madwifi; I also ignored all SSD related
instructions as I have a 120G HDD model).
As you will note from my comment on the Debian Wiki page, I could not
get the internal mic to work. Please let me know if some more recent
version of alsa makes this work for you.
One additional (and frightening!) problem I faced was that two days
after I got the machine it stopped booting! It turns out that Acer
has an essential BIOS update that many vendors have not implemented.
I followed the instructions at
http://macles.blogspot.com/2008/08/acer-aspire-one-bios-recovery.html
which shows how the bios of a non-booting(!) Acer Aspire One can be
replaced. Get the latest bios update from the Acer site while you are
at it.