Wow that's one complete reply :). Thank you for spare your time for it.
   
  In case you don't know yet the dial-up modem also won't work yet. I read it somewhere that the developer of the chip (texas instrument or something like that) didn't release any specifications for the kernel developers. 
   
  The wireless have already work since I first installed ubuntu the hardware was detected from the first place, but I havent really test the connection, since there're not much hotspots around here.
   
  Not sure what about the card readers tho, havent got a chance to try it out since I don't have any memory cards. So well that leaves us the camera and modem unusable.
   
  It is said that the SATA controller could use the piix driver. But i've tried both AHCI module and PIIX, still freezes, but yes, less frequent.
   
  Well, untill these problems solved in edgy or the latest, guess I need to stick to windows for awhile.
   
  BTW thank you very much and very nice to meet you man.

Christian Mayrhuber <email address hidden> wrote:
  On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 23:34:25 +0200, stubbe 
wrote:

Hi, it the SATA bug seems to be this one:
https://launchpad.net/bugs/38760

I could make the ata errors occur less frequently by adding a line with 
the entry
ahci
to the file /etc/modules. Those freezes didn't go away completely.


> Hei Christian, may I have your contact? Either e-mail or IM? I'm buying
> the same laptop and using ubuntu dapper 6.06.
>
> This problem surely occurs to me aswell. Not just that, the SATA driver
> don't work. It work but this is what I get from /var/log/messages :
>
> Aug 18 03:19:27 stubbe kernel: [4298880.086000] ata1 is slow to respond, 
> please be patient
> Aug 18 03:19:56 stubbe kernel: [4298906.385000] ata1: status=0x50 
> { DriveReady SeekComplete }
> Aug 18 03:19:56 stubbe kernel: [4298906.419000] sda: Current: sense key: 
> No Sense
> Aug 18 03:19:56 stubbe kernel: [4298906.419000] Additional sense: No 
> additional sense information

...

>
> Is this bug reported yet? Or do you not have the same problem?
>
> Thanks.
>

I had to do another thing to prevent the nvidia driver to hang my system
when switching to the text console - disable the framebuffer.
Look for a line in /boot/grub/menu.lst starting with:
# defoptions= ...
and change it to:
# defoptions=quiet video=vga16fb:off video=vesafb:off

Afterwards you have to type "update-grub" to update your boot menu.
Note: All actions as user root. It will disable the graphical boot.

What might interest you is that the wireless driver of the 2.6.15-26-686
kernel started to work fully with a WRT-54G and a Dlink DWL-650g after
I downloaded and installed all of the Acer updates for the preinstalled
Windows XP.

What a strange experience.

I also had problems with audio during video playback with xine. I had
switch xine to use the OSS emulation from the ALSA driver and to create
a file ~/.asoundrc with the content
pcm.dsp0 {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmix"
}
# mixer0 can stay unchanged, because
# it isn't used anyway, I guess ;)
ctl.mixer0 {
type hw
card 0
}


I hope there will be a kernel release fixing those nasty SATA errors.
kernel-2.6.17-2-686 from edgy does not even boot.

What else does not work:
- Logitech webcam, but I read somewhere that a driver for the Logitech 
webcam
integrated in this notebook is in the works:
~$ lsusb
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 046d:0892 Logitech, Inc.).
- TI card reader
~$ lspci
0000:0a:06.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments: Unknown device 8039
0000:0a:06.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments: Unknown 
device 803b

Cheers,
Christian

PS: Doom3 is perfectly playable with OSS audio output on a resolution of 
900x600.
Here is a modline (/etc/X11/xorg.conf file, section "Modes")for it:
Modeline "960x600" 45.28 960 992 1160 1192 600 612 618 631

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https://launchpad.net/bugs/48395


 		
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