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Thread: Hardy not working on Aspire 3050

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    Unhappy Hardy not working on Aspire 3050

    hey HAI.

    i sadly have an Acer Aspire 3050 laptop.
    Gutsy wasn't going very well on that computer (and i checked around, it seems it was like that for everybody) with stuff like wireless not working and sound buggy.

    anyway. when i saw that Hardy was in alpha, i tried downloading it and installing it. but, upon choosing "installation" from the boot menu, the orange bar would load to about 25% and freeze there. for hours. i tried leaving it on all night. nothing happens, just freezes. it wouldn't work by upgrading through the manager either. it downloaded, had fun with the packages then reboot. and it wouldn't work.

    then i saw the beta and tried. same thing.

    i was full of hope for the release.

    of course it does the same. i just can't install it on my damned laptop and it makes me really really sad.

    anyone have the same issue?
    or have any idea?
    or maybe have beer? hmm, beer.

    thanks

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    Re: Hardy not working on Aspire 3050

    holy moley.

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    Re: Hardy not working on Aspire 3050

    oh well.

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    Re: Hardy not working on Aspire 3050

    I have an Acer Aspire 5050-3786 and I too tried installing Hardy Alpha and Beta. I thought it was the CD media, thought it was the ISO, but now I think it might have to do with kernel 2.6.24-16.

    I was able to install Hardy, but kernel 2.6.24-16 refuses to activate swap and fails to load Synaptics Touchpad. If I start Hardy with kernel 2.6.22-14 it loads fine.

    I'm not sure, still a noob myself.

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    Re: Hardy not working on Aspire 3050

    anything new?
    it really really annoys me not to be able to install it.

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    Re: Hardy not working on Aspire 3050

    yeah id like to have an official fix for this , has this been submitted to launchpad?

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    Re: Hardy not working on Aspire 3050

    as of 5-19-08 the official Hardy release LiveCD was used to install to an Acer Aspire 3050, though wireless is non-functioning at the moment. any tips on that would be appreciated.

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    Re: Hardy not working on Aspire 3050

    Quote Originally Posted by roadrocket13 View Post
    as of 5-19-08 the official Hardy release LiveCD was used to install to an Acer Aspire 3050, though wireless is non-functioning at the moment. any tips on that would be appreciated.
    what wirless card do you have. use lspci nd post the results to me, i am running ok with an acer 3690.

    clint
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    Re: Hardy not working on Aspire 3050

    Quote Originally Posted by clb137 View Post
    what wirless card do you have. use lspci nd post the results to me, i am running ok with an acer 3690.

    clint
    Name: RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI
    ID: 09:00.0 0280: 1814:0201 (rev 01)

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    Re: Hardy not working on Aspire 3050

    Quote Originally Posted by mini_g View Post
    Name: RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI
    ID: 09:00.0 0280: 1814:0201 (rev 01)

    Sorry thought you had a broadcom wireless, as far as aware your card should be ok, i will do some digging for you,you could try "ear media" its based on heron and everything works out of the box, inclluding all media its a very good distro,

    check www.distrowatch.com you can get a link

    or

    http://www.earos.dk/

    have fun

    clint
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    Ubuntu ;- The best free Linux distro there is

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