deadwood I bought an acer aspire one A110 this has a larger hd and is replaceable with an ssd than the normal ZG5

@deadwood


Hi deadwood, I have had very little time to play these past few weeks. I should have some time this coming week end. I did try it a while ago and I could not get it to boot at all but I wasn't using the 'noacpi' setting in the grub entry. Looks like even on theLatitude D520 I need to use this option now. Wasn't the case with older versions of AROS. Just letting you know.

Hi,

Sorry, still setting up a machine with virtualbox as my previous laptop had everything setup before it failed.

@amigamia, @Jeff1138

Thanks for replying and no worries - there is no rush. Once you tested the hardware, then we can decided whether to add it to recommended or not

About 'noacpi' - AROS kernel has been updated in recent years by Kalamatee to support more recent hardware. This sometimes makes older hardware fail. If I have the hardware, I will debug and resolve that at some point.

@Amiwell79

Thanks, I updated my notes.

Hi ppl,

I have 2x acer aspire one D150
Sound,WiFi works out of the box

1x acer aspire one D255, sound,graphics WiFi works out of the box.

1.with icaros
2.aros one
3.aros68k


Since nikos's aspireOS I stayed with acer , all works well. D255 used to fail to boot but boots ok now...

I did a search the acer aspire one d150 also has a compatible graphics processor Gl

Panasonic Toughbook CF-29

Boot = Harddisk/Cdrom (USB boot issue) : Works (NOACPI parameter)
Video = Intel Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller : Works (Native)
Audio = Intel 82801 FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller : Works
Ethernet = Marvell 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller : No Driver
Wireless = Intel Pro 2915ABG [Calexico 2] Network Connection : No Driver
IDE = Works
SATA = Works (Might be under IDE emulation [requires aftermarket adaptor])
Power Off = Tap Power Switch

USB boot work around = copy/replace /Devs/USBHardware/pciusb.device, from Icaros Desktop to Aros-20211128-RC1.

Panasonic Toughbook CF-18

Boot = Harddisk (USB boot issue) : Works (NOACPI parameter)
Video = Intel Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller : Works (Native)
Audio = Intel 82801 FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller : Works
Ethernet = Realtek RTL-8100/8181L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet : Works
Wireless = Intel Pro 2915ABG [Calexico 2] Network Connection : No Driver
IDE = Works
Power Off = Tap Power Switch

Note: Laptop has no Cd-rom. There is a USB boot issue. I had to install Aros to the harddisk, from on another machine. Both CF-18 and 29 boot from USB, with 2018 Aros.

USB boot work around = copy/replace /Devs/USBHardware/pciusb.device, from Icaros Desktop to Aros-20211128-RC1.

the pecuriality of the acer aspire A110 is that in addition to having a larger HD it can accommodate a very long battery life the same goes for the base model ZG5 and I think D150, having a laptop with a long battery life is not to be underestimated

@d0wz

Is the problem with USB only during boot? I mean when you install AROS RC1 using the workaround and then restore pciusb.device to RC1 version, does USB work in AROS booted from HDD?

The Aspire One's are nice compact machines, but they are 32-bit unfortunately. They will become obsolete once we migrate to 64-bit AROS.

I had an acer aspire 5630 pity about the battery otherwise it works fine and is 64-bit even

Processor
32-64 bit
Graphics
Nvidia 128 Mb Geforce 7300 GO Unfortunately no ADoom 3
Wifi
Atheros Compatible
Audio
HD-AUDIO
Connectors
USB 2.0-Parallel-Serial-External VGA
Battery
New 1:30 Hours

I'll see if I can buy one now because it costs about 30/40 shipped.

@deadwood

No. The USB device is detected, and associated with the mass storage driver (pop-up notification). But the drive never mounts (No drive Icon on the screen [Tested with Fat32 and Aros formated drives]).

This is the machine(s) with the USB hand-off issue. Potentially, there is a USB disk geometry issue (can't remember, I have a hand full of machines like that). I don't actually know if either issue is the culprit.

@d0wz, @AMIGASYSTEM, @Amiwell79

I have a question with regards to ZG5 you own.

Do you have in it a SATA HDD or IDE SSD? There seems to be two models on the market.

@deadwood

SATA

Thanks. Is it handled by ata.device or ahci.device? You can check this in Info window of partition in Wanderer.

@ deadwood
My Acer One Z5 has an SSD but it is broken the system does not detect the SSD, it works fine from Pendrive or external USB HD

@deadwood

It is managed by ata.device. The BIOS boot order even lists it as a IDE device. There is no option for SATA mode, in BIOS. After seeing that, I opened the device; making sure there wasn't a lapse in my memory. It is actually SATA.

@d0wz

Thanks for confirmation. I guess the physical connector is SATA, but software interface is ATA (IDE) not the newer AHCI interface.