Installing linux on the Acer was not exactly easy. Apparantly there was some kind of error on the harddisk. The steps in order to install Linux Mint were:
- Download SystemRescueCD.
- Boot Acer e1-570 in Legacy mode (change the bios settings. When you see the "Acer" during boot press F2. Then change the boot mode to Legacy.)
- Delete all partitions on the harddisk and make some new ones: boot / home and swap.
- Download Linux Mint .iso - I have chosen the 64bit Cinnamon version.
- Install the .iso to a USB drive via dd.
- Boot and install Linux Mint from the external harddisk.
- I have chosen to install Linux Mint on the entire harddisk.
But killing Windows 8 was not easy.
By bye Windows ... ;-)
2 comments:
I'm running crunchbang linux and simply edited the following lines from my openbox autostart. They work in terminal as well, so you can drop them in a .sh or something. These settings make the trackpad bearable, disables tap-to-click, and I can simply turn the trackpad on and off with Fn + F7 in Linux. No problems there. Your mileage may vary.
## Detect and configure touchpad. See 'man synclient' for more info.
if egrep -iq 'touchpad' /proc/bus/input/devices; then
synclient VertEdgeScroll=0 &
synclient TapButton1=0 &
synclient VertTwoFingerScroll=0 &
synclient HorizTwoFingerScroll=0 &
fi
Thanx - I'll try your "recipe". On my system Fn + F7 worked out of the box.
But the fingerscroll-thing is new - I'll try to activate that ;-)
I have two Mint-related problems: sometimes the system freezes - and waking the system from hibernation is not possible.
After writing my blog post, I marked "disable touchpad when writing" - and this setting is actually a very good solution.
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