Acer Aspire 1353

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[edit] Overview

This is an article about running Gentoo on an Acer Aspire 1350 series laptop. My specific experience is with a 1353XC.


[edit] Laptop Specifications

  • AMD AthlonXP 2400+ Mobile CPU
    • Running at 1.80GHz
    • Powernow! Technology
    • 512kB cache
  • 256MB PC2700 DDR RAM
  • VIA KM400 Chipset
    • Integrated 64MByte S3 Unichrome Graphics
    • Integrated AC97 Audio
  • 15.4in TFT LCD Screen (Not Widescreen)
  • 20GB 4200rpm 2.5in PATA IDE Hard Disk
  • CDRW/DVDROM Combination drive
  • 4x USB ports
  • SVideo, Monitor connections for video output
  • VIA Rhine Ethernet
  • Built in 56k Modem
  • Parallel port
  • PCMCIA slot


[edit] lspci Output

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [KM400/A] Chipset Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 PCI Bridge
00:07.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 02)
00:08.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
00:11.6 Communication controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 80)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [S3 UniChrome] Integrated Video (rev 01)

[edit] Information from /proc

[edit] cpuinfo

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 6
model           : 10
model name      : Mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
stepping        : 0
cpu MHz         : 1791.396
cache size      : 512 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mp mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips        : 2525.90 

[edit] /proc/ide/hdc/model

QSI CD-RW/DVD-ROM SBW-242


[edit] Hardware Support

  • Input Devices
    • Keyboard works fine except for function keys. Screen brightness changes work, however shortcut buttons and volume controls do not.
    • Touchpad works using standard mouse drivers. synaptics package from portage allows fine tuning of the touchpad settings and requires the event interface driver in the kernel


  • Drives and Storage
    • Hard Drive controller works using VIA82CXXX IDE driver in the kernel.
    • CDRW/DVD controller works using standard kernel drivers. It has been successfully used to play DVDs, and write CDs using K3b


  • Graphics Chip
    • Works acceptably with vesa driver. Fullscreen video a bit jerky though. Much smoother although tempramental with the 'via driver. The latter worked fine in Xorg 6.9 but in the modular Xorg 7.0 I have had to use the vesa driver.


  • Network Card
    • Works great using the via rhine driver in the kernel.


  • CPU Frequency Scaling
    • Works using kernel drivers for PowerNow!


  • Sound Chip
    • Works under alsa using the VIA 82C686A/B, 8233/8235 AC97 Controller driver in the kernel, under PCI sound cards.


  • Untested Devices
    • Firewire
    • Modem (I think it is a WinModem)
    • Other Devices
      • Some 1350 range laptops come with integrated Bluetooth and/or Wireless Networking. The model I have used does not have these features so I cannot test them.


[edit] /etc/make.conf

CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
VIDEO_CARDS="via vesa fbdev"
INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse"

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