Sunday, May 8, 2011

Acer Aspire and Ubuntu 11.04 Issues

I've just updated Ubuntu 10.04 to 10.10 and then 11.04. I faced several issues. I didn't have time to work on them more, so I can present only quick, dirty workarounds without much explanation:

1) There was a blank screen when I tried to run Ubuntu after the upgrade

I had to run it in the safe mode (something like that - don't remember exactly the name) and enable different graphics driver.

2) When I start the laptop it always first shows just a blank screen and hangs, after I restart it again it works

3) WiFi stopped working

The interface is blocked. rfkill doesn't help. The quickest workaround is to execute the following command:

sudo rmmod acer_wmi

4) Touchpad is not working

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