I've just got an Acer Aspire One for my birthday coming up next week, Mrs. Saptech bought it for me. It has the 160gb hd, 1gb mem & Winxp.

I've read about the DebianAcerOne installation and would like to hear others' experience installing & using it or any other distro.

Are people using the normal distro ISO to install or a special netbook version? Did everything work out the box as expected? Do tell.

Thnx.

I think people must be using a special netbook version. Some of the Ubuntu variants are available in linuxtracker.org

I use the normal, Ubuntu 8.10 on my Aspire One... It works great. I left the restore partition there... "just in case". Using 8.10 though.. Almost everything works out of the box. Only things I'm aware of that don't, are Wireless and The mic... I don't use the mic, so I can't verify that, I've just read it elsewhere.

Install Cheese, and your webcam should run video w/ no problems.

If your device has the Atheros device (lspci shows it as AR242x), it is very easy to get working.... Post #3 should get your wireless going if you have that device... Its easiest to do if you can hook up to a wired connection for a couple of minutes, but if you can't, I believe the file is on the install disk.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=967654

Everything else, 3D graphics(compiz), sound, etc, all works w/o issue.

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Hey, thnx for the info guys. Another question. The AAO came with AT&T 3g wifi deal and if I install linux, would I still be able to use the 3g wifi? It has the builtin 3g wifi nic or whatever it's called.

I have Debian on my AAO and it works great.. Loving it.

Check the links in my sig. for install guides for other OS's and tweaks for the AAO.

I dont' see any reason the internal 3G wouldn't work with Linux..
I'm sure if you searched for the model of 3G card and Linux you would find a how-to guide..

Wrong topic.

One more that will be working: Dreamlinux 3.5 (Debian Lenny based); just testing the RC6, all hardware is supported. The final release will be around the 28.02.
cheers, @nno

Yes, Ubuntu works perfectly in the AAO. I got it up and running in less than one hour. The fan control is worse than the windows one , but it will get better, and you need to carry the ath_pci source always , because after every kernel update , you will lose your wireless. Boot up in nearly 45 seconds and shutdown in 11 , thought in my netbook it takes around 20 , because tty1 doesnt listen to the KILL signal, and the "acpid" deamon takes long to exit. (any solutions for that?) And one question: Do both wireless network lights work? Because only the right one works for me, (Even on linpus) or is it the left for the wired connection?

This is for Debian, not sure if it works for Ubuntu.

The wireless LED can be activated (in conjunction with madwifi modules) by adding to /etc/sysctl.conf the lines

dev.wifi0.ledpin=3
dev.wifi0.softled=1

and restarting sysctl (or rebooting). This fix doesn't work with the ath5k module, but a similar fix is anticipated for the ath5k module included in
the 2.6.29 kernel version.

I've finally got debian installed and wireless working. Now need to work on getting the 3g wireless working.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne

I did that, but it isnt working, nor was it working on linpus (pre-installed).for So , I will send it for service. (I got one dead , and one semi-dead pixel in the center area, and the left wifi led is broken)

I've only ever noticed one wifi LED on the front edge of the AspireOne next to the switch that enables/disables the wifi.

My AAO came with the AT&T 3G wifi and has a LED on the left hand side and regular wifi LED on the right had side, with the switch below them. I haven't started on getting the 3G working yet.

Adding those commands did bring activity lights to the LED on my Debian Sid.

Sorry I can't be more help, but thanks to all the others that offered me help.

I will upload a pic from the wifi kill switch and the leds above it later.

http://img19.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc00184sd7.jpg and http://img19.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc00185du7.jpg are some pics of my wifi leds. In one of them , I caught the one led blinking, the other led is therefore , dead. Warning, I took the photo upside down and forgot to spin it to normal. Sorry for the bad quality, it is a phone picture.