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Various notes about Acer Travelmate 3004WTMi with Linux

This page has random notes about using Acer Travelmate 3004WTMi with Linux. It also contains stuff that lead to nowhere.

Acer Travelmate 3004WTMi with Linux has the important and usefull stuff. Go there to get your Travelmate working. Most of the fixes on this page have been included in Ubuntu Dapper 6.06, and work out of the box.

Using Acer Travelmate 3004WTMi (Travelmate 3000 -series) with Ubuntu Linux Breezy 5.10. Now installer can read CDROM! This article is not a howto, it only documents my inital impressions.

Ubuntu Breezy can be installed on Travelmate, but it does not work well. Does not work: ACPI, battery meter, correct resolution for widescreen display, mouse scroll buttons, sound. Display should be easy to fix.

Acer Travelmate 3004WTMi command outputs


Ubuntu Dapper 6.06 Beta 2 Live

Feature Works? Comment
Live CD Yes No special boot parameters required. Works OOB: sound, mouse. Finnish keymap works after: System: Prefs: Keyboard: Layouts. Model: Generic 105-key (Intl) PC. Add: Finland: Eliminate dead keys. Default, Up. Display works partially (1024×768). Suspend-to-RAM S3 fails (bug filed).
Live CD Installer Yes Start Espresso installer by double-cliking “Install” icon on Live CD desktop. “Remember to back up” Forward. “Welcome… language for installation … [and] final system” English. “Where are you” Helsinki. “Keyboard layout”: Finnish. “Name” Tero Karvinen. “log” tkarvine “password” k3n_99kk23h “name of computer” moreeni. (installing over existing Linux partitions was not intuitive or did not work. First had to remove Linux partitions, quit installer, then choose “use longest continuous free space”). “Really” Forward. … waiting … “Installation complete” clicked: Reboot the computer. Automatically ejected cd. Machine booted, logged in.


Ubuntu Dapper (Flight CD 5)

Feature Works? Comment
Install Yes F6, “noapic nolapic pci=noacpi” (or “noapic acpi=on irqpoll pci biosirq”)
Display Yes 915resolution, MODE=54, XRESO=1280, YRESO=800, see below
Display, External No Best success was bottom and right part clipped out
Network, Wired Yes, oob
Network, WLAN Yes Dapper Flight 3
Keyboard Yes, oob
Keyboard, multimedia keys Yes, oob Dapper Flight 3
Sound Partial Sound works to some extent.
Suspend-to-RAM No Freezes on wakeup. Worked for one day on Dapper Flight 3.
Battery meter Yes, oob Power manager automatically shows battery icon when AC is unplugged.
Live CD No Breezy, Dapper Flight 3. Not even with parameters working with installer
Multimedia Card Reader No Dapper Flight 3.


Installing

Boot computer from Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger Install CD. Use boot loader arguments:

 linux noapic nolapic acpi=off vga=771 pci=noacpi


Installation Troubleshooting

Freezes on “Uncompressing Linux…

Computer freezes and on top of a black screen there is written something like “Uncompressing Linux…”.

This is an APIC / LAPIC related kernel panic, caused by buggy ACPI in Acer Travelmate BIOS. I have noticed this on Acer v 3B07 (06/08/05) BIOS, but many pages on the net report similar problems on other BIOS revisions and other Acers. One of my students said his Toshiba laptop had a similar problem.

Boot with “noapic nolapic” boot loader (kernel) parameters as described above.

No CD-ROM and no Network

Installer complains “no common cd-rom was detected”. Because the error message comes from the installer that was loaded from cdrom, this seems a bit funny. Also, network is not detected, so network installation is not possible. Reported in Ubuntu Bug #21860.

In installed systems, you might see a message while loading: “Starting hotplug subsystem”, “Disabling IRQ #10”, “Disabling IRQ #11”.

Boot with “pci=noacpi” or even “acpi=off”. You won’t have ACPI power saving, but the external Firewire DVD-drive and network will work. On at least installed system, “linux pci=noacpi” seems to be enough.


Ubuntu Dapper (Flight CD 3)

Feature Works? Notes (hardware, software, configuration)
Live CD No Fails, even with boot parameters that work with installer.
Install Yes “linux noapic nolapic vga=771 pci=noacpi”.
Battery Meter, ACPI No Acer, 3B07 (06/08/05) smartbattery. Battery meter always shows AC-power is connected, battery load 0%. A DSDT fix exist, not tested. Reported to fix on Fedora Core 4. Rejected Ubuntu Bug 20466 continued and claimed a fix (but not working for me) in bug #300038. /proc/acpi/battery: Sanoy Lion 4,8 Ah. BIOS Acer, 3B07 (06/08/05). With latest (as of 2006-02-12) updates, must set “Power Manager:Preferences:Battery Critical:Do Nothing” to able to use computer unlugged. AC plugged/unplugged detection works in Power Manager.
CPU frequency scaling Yes Out of the box, uses powernowd. To test: right click top panel background:Add to Panel:CPU Frequency monitor. Intel Pentium M 760, 2 GHz
Mouse (Touchpad) Yes After ‘sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade’ and ‘sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg’ and ‘sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart’, it work perfectly, including tap drag and scroll button. (Out of the box: Scroll button does not work. Mouse moves, tap-click works, left and rigth button work. Tap-drag does not work. Scroll button does not work.) Ubuntu Bug26817
Bluetooth Not tested
Network, wired Yes Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5788 Gigabit Ethernet. Only tested 100 Mbit/s.
Network, wireless Yes Tested without encryption (using ssh tunnels for a VPN). Also monitor mode works, tested with Kismet. Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG
Display Yes With 915resolution (Teros script) and ‘sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg’ (or use Teros xorg.conf), it works in 1280×800 (optimal resolution). Works 1024×768 out of the box. Intel Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller, 12,1 inch TFT? 1280×800 32bit 60 Hz. Ubuntu Bug 5801. Ubuntu bug 27391.
External Display No Something is shown, but picture is partial and distorted. Tested with a TFT display, CRT and a video projector and all show the same symptoms. Might be realated to 915resolution.
Sound No Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller.
Keyboard Yes Out of the box. Tested with Finnish (fi) layout, scandic “åäöÅÄÖ” work; PgDn, PgUp, Home (Fn-PgUp) etc work, pipe works, at “@” works. Keyboard lights CapsLock, Numlock work. Numlock (Fn-F11) works. Touchpad disable (Fn-F7) works.
Extra keys Yes Out of the box. Tested Fn-F8 mute, mail (top left extra multimedia key) and many others
Hibernate Not tested System:Log Out:Hibernate
Suspend-to-RAM No Used to work: Power Manager:Suspend. Started working after ‘apt-get upgrade’ now I have Power Manager 2.13.5, 2.6.15-15, gnome-applets 2.13.3-0ubuntu1 and hal 0.5.6-1ubuntu3. I have only initially tested this. Works from “Power Manager” applet context menu. Log user out if started from System:ShutDown:Suspend. Not really sure wath lid close does. BIOS Acer, 3B07 (06/08/05). 2006-03-02: Broken again, filed a bug.
Firewire Yes Tested with the external DVD drive
DVD-RW Drive, External Yes (read) SlimType DVD RW SOSW-852S, firewire. Only tested reading CD-ROMs by installing Ubuntu from CD-ROM.
Memory Card Reader No Texas Instruments PCIxx21 Integrated FlashMedia Controller. Tried with SanDisk SD Transflash Adapter and SanDisk Transflash 128 MB finger nail sized mobile phone memory card. When plugged in (with lock switch locked or open), nothing happens and nothing is written to syslog. ‘sudo sg_scan -i’ (sg3utils) prints nothing.
Modem Not tested
USB Works Tested with Haicom HI-204E USB GPS on Linux.
PC-Card slot Not tested Texas Instruments PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus Controller


Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger

Use Ubuntu Dapper instead, see above.

Feature Works? Notes (hardware, software, configuration)
Install Yes “linux noapic nolapic acpi=off vga=771 pci=noacpi”, Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger. In the installed system, I removed “acpi=off vga=771” options in /boot/grub/menu.lst
Battery Meter, ACPI No Acer, 3B07 (06/08/05) smartbattery. Battery meter always shows AC-power is connected, battery load 0%. A DSDT fix exist, not tested. Reported to fix on Fedora Core 4. Ubuntu Bug 20466. /proc/acpi/battery: Sanoy Lion 4,8 Ah. BIOS Acer, 3B07 (06/08/05).
Suspend to RAM S3, ACPI No BIOS Acer, 3B07 (06/08/05). Tested only by closing the lid.
CPU frequency scaling Yes Out of the box, uses powernowd. See /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq with various load levels. Intel Pentium M 760, 2 GHz
Mouse (Touchpad) Yes Out of the box: Scroll button does not work. Mouse moves, tap-click works, left and rigth button work. Tap-drag does not work. Scroll button does not work. Did apt-get upgrade with all (universe, multiverse, restricted) enabled, dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg… now it works perfectly (with scroll buttons and drag), but I don’t know why.
Bluetooth Not tested
Network, wired Yes Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5788 Gigabit Ethernet. Only tested 100 Mbit/s.
Network, wireless Not tested Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG
Display Partial Works 1024×768 out of the box. Intel Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller, 12,1 inch TFT? 1280×800 32bit 60 Hz. Does not work in full 1280×800 resolution. Could not fix even by using 915resolution and modifying Xorg.conf.
Sound No Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller. With ACPI off, no sound. With ACPI on, sound is on but “welcome to login screen” sound plays in infinite loop. Sound can be muted with Fn-F8.
Keyboard Yes Out of the box. Tested with Finnish (fi) layout, scandic “åäöÅÄÖ” work; PgDn, PgUp, Home (Fn-PgUp) etc work, pipe works, at “@” works. Keyboard lights CapsLock, Numlock work. Numlock (Fn-F11) works.
Extra keys Yes Out of the box. Tested Fn-F8 mute, mail (top left extra multimedia key) and many others
Hibernate Yes Out of the box, using swsusp. System:Log Out:Hibernate
Firewire Yes Tested with the external DVD drive
DVD-RW Drive, External Yes (read) SlimType DVD RW SOSW-852S, firewire. Only tested reading CD-ROMs by installing Ubuntu 5.10 from CD-ROM.
Memory Card Reader Not tested Texas Instruments PCIxx21 Integrated FlashMedia Controller
Modem Not tested
USB Yes USB mass storage tested with Lacie 250 GB USB 2.0 external drive.
PC-Card slot Not tested Texas Instruments PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus Controller


Booting

With Ubuntu Breezy 5.10 Live CD, boot fails with default setup. Computer freezes and on top of a black screen there is written something like “Uncompressing Linux…”.

Computer boots with boot loader arguments:

 linux noapic nolapic acpi=off vga=771 pci=noacpi


ACPI

Does not work yet.

ACPI4Linux DSDT for ACER Travelmate 3000. “Features: tested on kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r3 and kernel-2.6.12-rc6, Gentoo 2005.0. this DSDT will make the battery status (/proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state) usable.” http://acpi.sourceforge.net/dsdt/view.php?id=387


Accessing Installation Files

If you boot with boot loader arguments “linux noapic nolapic acpi=off vga=771 pci=noacpi”, wired ethernet and external DVD drive work. The problem described below is only shown when booting with just enough boot loader arguments to make it boot past the “Uncompressing Linux…”, but not enough to make hardware work (eg “linux noapic nolapic”).

Ubuntu Live still does not load desktop, because it cannot find the external Firewire DVD drive after initial booting. Minimal shell “ash” can be opened from dialog menu.

Maybe files could be loaded from a USB mass storage key? Tested with a 250 GB Lacie USB drive and I was able to mount it. I used Ubuntu Dapper Flight3 (beta version) with boot option (F4) “noapic”, after failing to read cdrom I executed a shell. Note that USB devices must be connected on boot, or /dev/sda* are not automatically created (you might be able to create them with mknod also)

$ ls /dev/sd*
/dev/sda /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2
$ cd mnt
$ mkdir usb1
$ mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb1
$ ls /mnt/usb1

I was able to read files from the USB drive. Now it is possible to copy files from outside the laptop (and cdrom boot loader) using only Linux. Next probably should copy some files to usb drive and see if Ubuntu can be installed from files other than cdrom (expert mode?).

Two first partitions of internal 100 GB drive are accessible.

On Ubuntu Live 5.10: Run the installer, choose language and location, fail the detect cd-rom. When you get a menu of installation steps, choose “Execute shell” (ash)

# mkdir /mnt/
# cd /mnt/
# mkdir hda1 hda2
# mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1
# mount -t vfat /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2

Strangely, the “-t vfat” is required or mount fails.

Now that I can access the internal hard drive, how can I tell the installer to read the files from the hard drive and not a cdrom?

On Debian Sarge NON_US CD #1, you can answer installation questions until you get the menu and can exit to shell. Then you can mount the partitions like above, except that no “-t vfat” is needed.

Debian Sarge DVD #1 did not boot. Knoppix 3.7 did not boot. FIRE did not boot :gettys respawning too fast, then alt-ctrl-del: could not execute /sbin/shutdown. FIRE failed both X and text mode.

On Fedora Core 4 Rescue CD: No driver found – unable to find any devices of the type needed for this installation type. (When asked to use local cdrom on starting rescue cd).


Firewire DVD Drive

Fixed! Booted with Breezy Badger Install CD: “linux noapic nolapic acpi=off vga=771 pci=noacpi”. Thanks to whoever wrote the entry about Travelmate 4100 LMI at 2005-11-07 on HardwareSupportMachinesLaptopsAcer. Knoppix 3.7 boots with these parameters too.

The model of the external firewire DVD-RW drive is displayed for a very short time in boot, if “quiet boot” is disabled from BIOS. It is “SlimType DVD RW SOSW-852S”.

Bug #21860 in cdrom-detect (Ubuntu): “/dev/cdroms symlinks missing for SCSI (IDE SATA) CD-ROM (Acer TM4151)” – this seems to be the main bug on not finding cdrom drive.

Bug #21907 in cdrom-detect (Ubuntu): “CD-ROM not detected” duplicate of 15642 Duplicate of bug #21860 “cdroms symlinks missing”. Duplicate of #15642 “changes from Debian”.

Bug #15642 in gcc-3.4 (Ubuntu): “gcc-3.4: new changes from Debian require merging”

Bug #24501 in Ubuntu: “No hdd & cdrom found in netinst of Ubuntu 5.10 – Acer TM 1451”

“Optical Drive – Slimtype DVDRW SOSW-852S: CD-RW / DVD+RW / DVD-RW (24W / 10RW / 2.4W / 4RW / 8DVD) Working – Burnt a 590MB CD in about 5 minutes. Have not yet burnt any DVDs.” [Ubuntu Linux 4.10 Warty on a Mecer N223II Notebook] http://www.durbanet.co.za/colin/mecer-linux/mecer_n223ii_notebook_ubuntu_linux.html

Bug #6157 in Ubuntu: “Latest Dapper: CD-ROM broken on Compaq Presario M2000”: The cdrom driver is loaded, but there is some sort of conflict when loading cdrom: .. ide0: BM-DMA at 0×1810-0×1817, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio .. ide1: BM-DMA at 0×1818-0x181f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio .. ide0: I/O resource 0x3F6-0x3F6 not free. .. ide1: failed to initialize IDE interface .. the piix driver?

Bug #2709 in debian-installer (Ubuntu): “during 5.10 install on thinkpad can’t find CDROM and then failed”: display “irq #15 nobody care” and can’t find CDROM, with “irqpoll” works by upgrade from 5.04 (except wlan), but freeze by installation

See also:

http://www.linux1394.org/faq.php#sbp2

http://www.linux1394.org/sbp2.php

BootFromFirewireHardDisk on Ubuntu wiki “These instructions won’t work, as the Ubuntu kernel does not have the necessary bits compiled in – SCSI, fw support, and sbp-2. See [WWW] http://macubuntu.blogspot.com/ for step-by-step instructions on how to get this to work.” Direct url: http://macubuntu.blogspot.com/2005/11/nailed-howto-install-bootable-mac.html


Backing Up

3004WTMi comes with preinstalled Windows. Following your intuition or the manual that came with the computer, install Windows in English, keep klicking until Acer eManager shows you the external DVD writer, and burn “Factory Default” backup DVD.

Without this DVD, it might be very difficult to copy anything to hard drive when the pre-installed Windows breaks.


Links


Ubuntu Official Sites

Snippets from page https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/base-installer/+bug/26405

Bug #26405 in base-installer (Ubuntu): “problems to install Ubuntu 5.10 in my Acer Travelmate 4151lci Laptop”

It boots from the CD Drive perfectly but when it comes to detecting and mounting [the installation cd-rom], i get an error message that says ‘no common cd-rom was detected’ and asks if i want to load drivers from a floppy. Of course, i don’t have floppy drive and so I can’t proceed the instalation. lucastorri 2005-11-30

Worked fine with SuSE 10.0 GM lucastorri at 2005-12-17

I have the same problem with a Travelmate 210TEV. vincenzo di somma 2005-12-19

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/base-installer/+bug/26405

I (Tero) added Travelmate 3000 to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportMachinesLaptopsAcer


Official Acer

Update: Finally found an official Acer ftp server where things are in sensible order: ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/notebook/travelmate_3000/


Old stuff about official website

Acer website is horrible, popup windows and “click here” links, dropdown menus replacing links – they have it all.

User manual as a PDF: Doesn’t make linking easy, find it from: http://global.acer.com/products/notebook/tm3000.htm

Drivers: http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/notebook/tm_3000.html

Utilities: http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/utilities.html

Specs (Finland): Acer uses some long randomized urls that can’t be bookmarked easily, must manually find Acer Travelmate 3000 link. http://www.acer.fi/


User Pages and Comments

Quoting http://www.baycom.org/~tom/acertm3004wtmi/ :

The worst problem is the interrupt controller problem. The BIOS assigns all high speed IO devices (LAN, WLAN, Firewire, USB) to interrupts 10 and 11.

There are numerous problems to get Fedora Core 4 working on an Acer Travelmate 3004WTMi, namely:

  • Interrupt Controller: XT-PIC vs IOAPIC
  • Broken ACPI DSDT prevents battery state information
  • Synaptics Touchpad Detection
  • x.org i810 Driver
  • Patch for the Sigmatel Codec
  • VBIOS patch needed for 1280×800 resolution

Because no high speed IO devices work with the standard kernel and thus with the installation kernel, I found no other easy way than to copy the installation images plus the above RPM packages to the internal harddisk (eg. by using the preinstalled Windoze).

Page also contains patches and RPMs to get 3004WTMi working on Fedora Core 4.

http://www.baycom.org/~tom/acertm3004wtmi/

Sound fix on 3002

Tero 2006-03-16: This works, I can hear sounds!

theefrit a gmail.com sent me quick feedback:

Hi! I have a travelmate 3002 and I m running successfully Ubuntu Linux 6.04 Flight 5 w o recompiling kernels or other stuff. My boot options for the kernel are

  ro quiet splash noapic acpi=on irqpoll pci biosirq 

I have also ACPI, sound, bluetooth and I m testing the hibernate function, but it s still not working.


Similar Models

Quoting holster a iki fi http://nurkka.org/linux_on_travelmate_3210/ :

Ubuntu Linux on Acer TravelMate 3210

Only thing needing a bit tweaking was the X server: the LCD screen stays blank until you insert Option “MonitorLayout” “LVDS,NONE” in the Device section of your xorg.conf.

Suspend and hibernate modes both do work. However, when using suspend, sometimes keyboard is locked on resume. Hibernation (suspend-to-disk) works fine. Speedstep-centrino module doesn’t load (”Device or resource busy”). CPU frequence scaling and throttling works via speedstep-acpi module, though. I guess the centrino module would save even more power (currently ~2.5 h on battery).

http://nurkka.org/linux_on_travelmate_3210/

3002WTCi, with fix for sound.

http://blog.lizhao.net/2005/08/softwarerec-install-ubuntu-on-acer.html

ablepsia.net reports success with Travelmate 3002, another Debian-based distro and these boot params:

 irqpoll
 pci=biosirq

and to make firewire cdrom work:

 noacpi
 acpi=off
 noapic

“also sound runs now out of the box with snd-hda-intel”

“WLan is working fine – using modprobe param led=1 also the led is used. For usage of wpa it is still recommended to use wpasupplicant. ”

http://ablepsia.net/linux/linux_grml.shtml


Replacing Broken DSDT in BIOS ACPI

No need to recompile the kernel to replace DSDT in Ubuntu:

$ sudo cp DSDT.aml /etc/mkinitramfs/
$ sudo mkinitramfs -o initrd.img-2.6.12-9-amd64-k8.fixed
$ sudo cp initrd.img-2.6.12-9-amd64-k8.fixed /boot/initrd.img-2.6.12-9-amd64-k8.fixed

http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~weckerl/ferrari_ubuntu_64.html#acpi

Tero: I tried this but it did not work for me. HAL improvements will fix this by adding support to smartbattery.

note: you will need to compile iasl from source too. It uses flex to generate the scanner. Unfortunately, the current flex version (2.5.31) on ubuntu is buggy. You will need 2.5.4. http://blog.lizhao.net/2005/08/softwarerec-install-ubuntu-on-acer.html


Teros Configs


script to use 915resolution

#!/bin/bash
# (c) 2006-01-27 Tero Karvinen
# See also sailer-fc4/915resolution.initscript
 
echo -n $"Starting 915resolution: "
sudo ./915resolution 38 1280 800
sudo ./915resolution 49 1280 800
sudo ./915resolution 58 1280 800


xorg.conf for 1280×800 with 915resolution

# /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the /etc/X11/xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man /etc/X11/xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
#   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
Section "Files"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi"
	# path to defoma fonts
	FontPath	"/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection
Section "Module"
	Load	"bitmap"
	Load	"ddc"
	Load	"dri"
	Load	"extmod"
	Load	"freetype"
	Load	"glx"
	Load	"int10"
	Load	"type1"
	Load	"vbe"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Generic Keyboard"
	Driver		"kbd"
	Option		"CoreKeyboard"
	Option		"XkbRules"	"xorg"
	Option		"XkbModel"	"pc105"
	Option		"XkbLayout"	"fi"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Configured Mouse"
	Driver		"mouse"
	Option		"CorePointer"
	Option		"Device"		"/dev/input/mice"
	Option		"Protocol"		"ExplorerPS/2"
	Option		"Emulate3Buttons"	"true"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Synaptics Touchpad"
	Driver		"synaptics"
	Option		"SendCoreEvents"	"true"
	Option		"Device"		"/dev/psaux"
	Option		"Protocol"		"auto-dev"
	Option		"HorizScrollDelta"	"0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Generic Video Card"
	Driver		"i810"
	BusID		"PCI:0:2:0"
	VideoRam	128000
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Generic Monitor"
	Option		"DPMS"
	HorizSync	30-67
	VertRefresh	30-60
EndSection
Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Device		"Generic Video Card"
	Monitor		"Generic Monitor"
	DefaultDepth	24
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		1
		Modes		"1280x800"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		4
		Modes		"1280x800"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		8
		Modes		"1280x800"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		15
		Modes		"1280x800"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		16
		Modes		"1280x800"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		24
		Modes		"1280x800"
	EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier	"Default Layout"
	Screen		"Default Screen"
	InputDevice	"Generic Keyboard"
	InputDevice	"Configured Mouse"
	InputDevice	"Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
	Mode	0666
EndSection


Updating BIOS

Grab BIOS update from Acer ftp server ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/notebook/travelmate_3000/



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