Installing arch linux on an Acer Aspire One?

Richard Villa richardvilla007 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 9 09:44:16 EDT 2010


Where can one get the thumb drive image?


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From: "Terry D. Cudney" <terry.cudney at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 8:21 AM
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Installing arch linux on an Acer Aspire One?

> Hi again,
>
>   Replying to my own message...
>
>   Got some eyes and found that everything was working, just the volume was 
> set to zero on the Speaker device... Had them turn up the volume and all 
> seems to be working...
>
>   Is the default ALSA volmume 0 for the Speaker device in the iso image? 
> Doesn't seem right, since there is no speech on booting fromthe iso. You 
> have to get sighted help to adjust the volume.
>
>   Perhaps just an anomaly in my setup?
>
>   --terry
>
> On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 07:28:09AM -0400, Terry D. Cudney wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>>    First attempt to install Arch Linux from a USB stick on an Acer Aspire 
>> One fails to talk on boot. it does boot, I had some eyes here last night 
>> to say that the login prompt was on screen, but didn't get to see if 
>> there was a dmesg indication of the audio device... I assume that this is 
>> the problem, that there is no driver for the audio device in the iso on 
>> the data stick.
>>
>>    If anyone has used the Arch Linux installer  to install on an Acer 
>> Aspire One, I'd appreciate hearing how they went aboutit.
>>
>>    TIA,
>>
>>    --terry
>>
>> -- 
>> Name: Terry D. Cudney
>> Phone: 705-881-6161
>> E-mail: terry.cudney at gmail.com
>
> -- 
> Name: Terry D. Cudney
> Phone: 705-881-6161
> E-mail: terry.cudney at gmail.com
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