01 July, 2014

Linux Mint up and running on Acer E1-570



Installing linux on the Acer was not exactly easy. Apparantly there was some kind of error on the harddisk. The steps in order to install Linux Mint were:

  1. Download SystemRescueCD.
  2. Boot Acer e1-570 in Legacy mode (change the bios settings. When you see the "Acer" during boot press F2. Then change the boot mode to Legacy.)
  3. Delete all partitions on the harddisk and make some new ones: boot / home and swap.
  4. Download Linux Mint .iso - I have chosen the 64bit Cinnamon version.
  5. Install the .iso to a USB drive via dd.
  6. Boot and install Linux Mint from the external harddisk.
  7. I have chosen to install Linux Mint on the entire harddisk. 
And then ... everything worked. Even the ethernet and the wifi and the trackpad. After all Linux seems to work like a charm on this system. Well that is everything apart from the brightness of the screen. And I'd like an option like killing the oversentitive trackpad. I guess these minor things are a matter of tweaks.

But killing Windows 8 was not easy.

By bye Windows ... ;-)

2 comments:

Maki said...

I'm running crunchbang linux and simply edited the following lines from my openbox autostart. They work in terminal as well, so you can drop them in a .sh or something. These settings make the trackpad bearable, disables tap-to-click, and I can simply turn the trackpad on and off with Fn + F7 in Linux. No problems there. Your mileage may vary.


## Detect and configure touchpad. See 'man synclient' for more info.
if egrep -iq 'touchpad' /proc/bus/input/devices; then
synclient VertEdgeScroll=0 &
synclient TapButton1=0 &
synclient VertTwoFingerScroll=0 &
synclient HorizTwoFingerScroll=0 &
fi

Per Thykjær Jensen said...

Thanx - I'll try your "recipe". On my system Fn + F7 worked out of the box.

But the fingerscroll-thing is new - I'll try to activate that ;-)

I have two Mint-related problems: sometimes the system freezes - and waking the system from hibernation is not possible.

After writing my blog post, I marked "disable touchpad when writing" - and this setting is actually a very good solution.