I was planning to buy Acer Aspire One D270 within a few days and as everybody installs linux on their netbook I was also planning to do that. Now, my question is how is Acer's hardware compatibility with linux and specifically in respect to the new Acer Aspire One D270. Has anybody tried installing linux on these new netbooks. It will be a great help if a D270 user can share his/her experience with linux usage. I read on some forums that there is some linux driver issue with Intel GMA 3600 and that people are not able to adjust their brightness. So, as I am a linux noob is this a major issue or not. Specs RAM 2Gb DDR3 Processor Intel N2600Cedar Trail Graphics Intel GMA 3600 HardDisk 320Gb 5400 rpm Jorge gold badges463 silver badges653 bronze badges asked May 31, 2012 at 2034 2 Oddly enough, Ubuntu installed fine on my Acer Aspire One D270 and runs at 1024*600 - though it reports an "unknown" monitor. I installed Google Chrome, and it runs in-window Apple iTunes trailers at 480p very crisp, no stutter or other degradation. I say "oddly enough" because when I tried to do a similar install on an Asus x101ch, which also has the Atom N2600 chipset, it will ONLY run at 800*600 no matter what I do. I did try an install of Fedora 17, just released, which is SUPPOSED to support the N2600/GMA3600, but while it installed on the Asus at 1024*600, I couldn't install Google Chrome at all - kept calling for software that wasn't installed, but a search through the add software program couldn't find it. I found Fedora 17 much less user friendly, desktop, than Ubuntu, and believe it or not, I actually LIKE Unity on Ubuntu better than the other desktops I have tried Linux Mint, LXDE, XFCE. I wish I could find out what voodo allowed Ubuntu to install at 1024*600 on the D270, since I may pick up an N2800 Lenovo S110 while I am overseas and would love to run Ubuntu on it, but not if I'm stuck at 800*600 like on the Asus. BTW I DON'T think there is software support for any of the advanced features of the GMA 3600, it seems to be running at a simple generic VESA level without any hardware acceleration, but with the dual cores of the N2600 it is ok for simple in-browser video, at least. If anybody wants me to hook up an external DVD player to see if it can play DVD's, or see if it can play rips of DVD's via Handbrake, let me know. answered Jun 2, 2012 at 322 MWebbMWebb311 bronze badge 3 I'm not english speaker-writer, but give me a chance I'm using ubuntu precise LTS in my AOD270. Everything is right for me except the video VGA, HDMI output. Fair to say that I do not use quite much graphics and that's almost the only issue that I've noticed on about 3 weeks of using it with Precise Pangolin and obviously must take more than the output the only thing that I care about video. Anyway, if I connect the external monitor before turning on the netbook it works as it only has the external monitor showing a distorted mirror image in the netbook screen. So it has the issue of the GMA 3600 output, brightness, 3D, etcetera..., but I've used the rest of the hardware WLAN, USB, audio, touchpad, etc... and it works fine. It would be better if while installing you have a LAN conection, in case that you need some [privative] drivers from the intenet before using WLAN STA Broadcom. Right now I'm downloading MeeGo, for installing aside Ubuntu Precise and W7; because I read that it has drivers for de GMA 3600. I've seen other user's commentaries about changing successfully to MeeGo. I think to do it partially, just for using the video outputs, and until ubuntu or another similar linux distro have better perfoncance with the Atom N2600 and the GMA 3600. The other general and I think minor issue is that maybe Ubuntu run quite slowly in AOD270 no more than W7 anyway because of Unity. But is something of taste I think, and you can always try Xubutnu and Lubuntu. If you hasn't buy the netbook yet, maybe an Asus [or Lenovo] is more friendly hardware for Linux. Finally I insist Ubuntu works fine in my AOD270, except the known video issues. Hope this to be usefull. Manuel. answered Jun 1, 2012 at 233 4 I installed Linux Mint 13 based on Ubuntu on my D270, and the monitor booted at maximumor very high brightness, and the fan is continuously running at a high speed. No resolution problems though. The monitor problem I could easily fix by entering in the terminal sudo setpci -s "00 I ended up adding this line to /etc/ to make it automatic instead of having to change the brightness in the terminal for every session. Change the number at the endin my case 35 to a lower value to decrease brightness and vice versa. Now I have to figure out how to stop the fan running at full speed, because it is loud, and unnecessary when the machine is idle. This will no doubt wear out the fan bearings too. Will update when I can find an answer. Eliah Kagan116k54 gold badges314 silver badges489 bronze badges answered Jun 11, 2012 at 1905 1 Install Intel binary Xorg driver for GMA3600 Cedarview GPUs! a. still not full performance but works with 2d acceleration and I could play 720p videos with out problem. b. Adjust brightness with Fn Keys Work! How to do? First install generic kernel, reboot and and make sure you're using this kernel sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic Remove pae kernel with their respective headers & reboot at the end of this sudo dpkg -l grep linux-image This will show kernels on your system Remove all package related with pae kernel sudo apt-get -remove purge "name of package" sudo dpkg -l grep linux-headers This will show headers on your system Remove all package related with pae headers sudo apt-get -remove purge "name of package" Install the cedarview drivers sudo apt-get install cedarview-drm libva-cedarview-vaapi-driver cedarview-graphics-drivers Update the Grub Bootloader sudo update-grub2 Reboot the System and joy! NOTE can activate 3D acceleration test, to see if it works. For this,change Option "AIGLX" to "On" default settion sudo gedit /usr/share/intel-cdv/X11/ Jorge gold badges463 silver badges653 bronze badges answered Aug 19, 2012 at 2159 1 I am a new to linux. I removed the Linpus linux that came along with ACER AOD270 Atom N2600, Intel GMA3600. It runs on Cedar Trail platform I am not a techee and intel has incorporated the drivers with their own linux distro Meego I've tried Ubuntu and after installing couldn't adjust the brightness. But after updating it showed to install additional drivers and installed the Cedarview drivers. Those crashed after some time, without much problems and now I am very happy with Linuxmint13. Searched the synaptic for cedar and installed 4 softwares for cedartrial and cedarview and I played a movie 1920x800 nicely. For adjusting brighness , the Fn+ arrow keys worked well. Additional brighness reduction was achieved with RedshiftGUI Oyibo1,9095 gold badges23 silver badges40 bronze badges answered Oct 21, 2012 at 1817 1 Okay, I too have an AOD270, and I live in India. So basically everything works except brightness controls and 3D acceleration so no compiz and other such pretty effects. Brightness can be adjusted, although only from Terminal. Other than the display problems, I am absolutely loving this netbook. answered Jun 3, 2012 at 434 gold badge2 silver badges6 bronze badges 2 I managed to make an Eeepc 1025c work almost perfectly including full video acceleration - 1080p at 10% CPU or less on Lubuntu and wrote a guide about it. Hope it could help It should work on similar hardware and different ubuntu variants/derivate but I couldn't check; I hope I get some feedback about it. answered Aug 25, 2012 at 1432 3 This week and last week I've put Ubuntu Netbook Remix on two D270 Aspire Ones 1Gb RAM for friends. This has been updated to current Kernel, etc. Installation was quick and painless from USB stick. Resolution is 1024x600, no problem here, however brightness is fixed level not a problem and card reader does not work needs a driver. The only other quirk I've found is that on wireless connection the icon in top panel does not show an active connection state but reverts to the red ! symbol proprietary driver downloaded. There is also no 3D, although on a cheap netbook again this isn't really an issue. Overall it runs well, as does my old faithful ZG5, and is a big improvement on the Win 7 starter that came installed I've left this on as a dual boot 'security blanket' for Linux newbies. Nice little machine, super keyboard and loads of battery capacity. Enjoy! answered Sep 6, 2012 at 809 I also have mint 13 kde running on my d270. You should not try to update the kernel. The cedarview driver patch packages only work for it is. The kernel and headers should have been held. It doesn't really work as well as it should but linux is robust enough that it works. I'd be using kubuntu except ubuntu based mint uses an older release, so synaptic was able to do all the configuration for me. As of now I'm waiting for the official kubuntu release. I tried the alpha 2 but I don't have the recovery skills to deal with pre release linux. But ... before the 2nd or 3rd update it worked very well. I expected an update to bork the system. It wasl alpha. answered Mar 24, 2013 at 1333 I've installed Ubuntu in Acer Aspire D270, and here are a few things that I experienced. 1 Only Ubuntu runs well. I could not install Ubuntu well. And I could install Ubuntu or however I could not use Wireless Internet. beta might be working better than others. 2 Updating everything is a bad idea in my case. I once updated everything, and I found somehow Ubuntu failed to load my SDHC card reader, which worked well before updating. 3 Intel GMA 3600 graphic chip is not supported properly. I could not use any 3D graphics and Open-GL well. There was one recommended driver, but when I installed it, it made my graphic even clunkier. I just gave up to use. 4 There was a screen brightness problem, and I could fix it. It was too dark, and I could not control with my keyboard. I should have used "sudo setpci -s 00 command in terminal. I just put this command in a script. 5 There is a sleep/suspend/hibernation problem, and I could fix it. It slept well, but when it turned on again, it showed crashed screen. I should have used "pm-suspend -quirk-dpms-on" command to suspend the system. I wrote a line of code to a file in /etc/pm/ for a little automation. answered Apr 2, 2013 at 131 I found these indication on webpage Strangely enough they also fix the sleep/resume problem. Open as root the following file /etc/default/grub $ sudo gedit /etc/default/grub [sudo] password Insert the text acpi_backlight=vendor, so that the line becomes GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash acpi_backlight=vendor“ save and close your editor. Then update grub, by running in terminal $ sudo update-grub It will tell you something like Generating … Found linux image /boot/ Found initrd image /boot/ Found linux image /boot/ Found initrd image /boot/ Found memtest86+ image /boot/memtest86+.bin done After that just reboot the machine. $ sudo reboot Caveats At times the screen would go entirely dark. Or would not apparently resume from a blank screen or when the screensaver gets active. For such cases, all you need to do is press “Fn + Brightness UP button” and screen will GLOW. Simple!! To suspend, just press Fn + F4 Z' button. It works on my Acer AOD270 answered May 12, 2013 at 926