Talk:Acer Extensa 5220

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[edit] CPUfreq

Do you know if it is possible to use cpufreq with this processor? As far as I found out, it does not support speedstep, but maybe I'm wrong?

It is possible but you have to apply a patch. Please see the article for further information.
--syslogd 09:12, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Keycodes

Could you explain a little bit wich keycodes i have to use with setkeycodes to get the special keys (e.g. wlan switch) running? Thanks in advance. Sonny

I got my special keys working using this tutorial.
--syslogd 09:12, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WLAN

What do you mean with "I had to use a git kernel to get wpa_supplicant to work with it.". What is a "git" kernel (sorry, english isn't my native language ;)) ?

I got the card working, with bcm43xx_fwcutter and a special firmware driver. Other versions of the firmware don't work, just produce a error message about incompatible firmware in the syslog.

Now the card works with WEP+WPA(2), but the problems you are mentioned (LED shows the wrong status, card doesn't work after suspend) are the same

The author meant that he had to checkout the latest branch of the kernel from the repository which is using the version control system (VCS) "Git".
You should use b43 instead because bcm43xx is outdated. You can follow Broadcom 43xx tutorial.
--syslogd 09:12, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] OpenGL

Do you got full hardware acceleration working? After many hours i got hw acceleration (glxgears shows framerates about 10.000 fps), but as soon as i start f.e. 3ddesktop, the whole x-server hangs (black screen, no keyboard or mouse input, but system is still running).

Which driver are you using in xorg.conf?
--syslogd 09:12, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
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