Ubuntu on Acer AO751H

June 30, 2009

After a lot of test I’ve got an Ubuntu working on my netbook!
This is glxinfo output:
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) GMA500 20080421 – 2.2.0.32L.0027 x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 1.4 (2.0 Mesa 7.2)

What I did?
Installed Ubuntu 8.10
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

added:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mobile/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mobile/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main

to /etc/apt/sources.list

gpg –keyserver subkeys.pgp.net –recv-keys 0x99D6B21CC6598A30

gpg –armor –export 0x99D6B21CC6598A30 | sudo apt-key add -

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.27-11-generic

sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-2.6.27-11-generic

reboot

sudo apt-get install poulsbo-driver-3d poulsbo-driver-2d

reboot

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7 Responses to “Ubuntu on Acer AO751H”

  1. metalfan said

    Hi,

    for what reason did you install the backports package?

  2. Gabriel said

    Hi, I did the same as you on Dell Mini 10 but over Ubuntu 9.04. The performance of my installation is very bad, the CPU work to hard with Xorg process. Did you have the same results or is only about dell hardware?

    • bris8 said

      We should define “bad” … :-)
      I’m not happy with the performance. It’s really slow to scroll web pages with Firefox and glxgear obtain 200 fps.
      Is it the same for you?

      • Gabriel said

        I have had similar results, 210~240 fps. But, the most important is that, the graphic interface (xorg) was hung, at least once a day.

      • Gabriel said

        The problem is 3d support. I remove the 3d support, don’t have more crashes on Xorg and glxgears results is 270~300fps :)

  3. SC said

    The AO751h is now fully supported by jaunty (ubuntu 9.04)…

    have a look @ :

    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne
    (ยง Alternate Configuration for AO751h )

    The french wiki-page is also interesting : http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/acer_aspire_one_751

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