[Mageia-discuss] mageia 1 on acer aspire one 722

[Luca Olivetti]

Al 23/01/12 18:03, En/na Frank Griffin ha escrit:
> On 01/08/2012 11:37 AM, Luca Olivetti wrote:
>> This is just a quick report (though I don't mind if somebody will chime in with some help)
>> on the issues I had installing mageia 1 on this netbook.
> I recently bought this same machine for my wife.  I had put her previous laptop on Mageia 1, and thought to do the same here, but immediately ran into the wireless issue, and moved right to Cauldron.
> 
> Cauldron works fine on this box, so there is light at the end of the tunnel for you :-)

So are there no problem enabling wired and wireless at the same time?
i.e. is this bug solved?
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3398
Are you using fglrx, or the open driver? Does it come back correctly after a suspend to ram?

> 
> One "gotcha": As delivered, I was getting intermittent machine checks, citing L1 cache corruption.  I couldn't replicate it under load, and it seemed only to happen when my wife was doing light surfing, about once a day.
> 
> I shipped the box back to Acer, who claimed they couldn't reproduce it and shipped it back, BUT they also updated the BIOS, and I haven't seen another machine check.
> 
> So, definitely update the BIOS.  It didn't occur to me that a BIOS error could produce a machine check in a running Linux system, but it could have something to do with the DSDT, I suppose.

I'll check if is there an update available, thank you.

Bye
-- 
Luca