Acer Aspire 5742
Introduction
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Specifications
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| Name | Acer Aspire 5742 |
| Processor | Intel® Core™ i5-480M Mobile Processor (3MB L3 “Westmere” 2.67GHz) Intel® Core™ i5-460M Mobile Processor (3MB Intel® Smart Cache, 2.53GHz) Intel® Core™ i3-370M Mobile Processor (3MB cache, 2.40 GHz) Intel® Pentium® Processor P6100 (3MB L3 cache, 2.0GHz) |
| Screen | 15.6” (1366×768) Widescreen |
| RAM | Up to 8GB |
| HDD | up to 640GB |
| Optical Drive | DVD+-RW (“MATSHITADVD-RAM”) |
| Graphics | Intel® HD Graphics (“i915”) |
| Network | 10/100/1000 Ethernet BCM57780 (“Tigon3”) Acer® InviLink Nplify 802.11b/g/n wireless LAN (“ath9k”) |
Laptop Notes
- supports ubuntu 10.04 “out-of-box”: camera, mic, wifi, suspend, all “just work”.
- i5 CPU supports 4 cores + HT, 12 frequency steps/4 profiles
- Elantech touch pad with right-hand scroll
- 4GB memory is arranged as 2x 2GB DDR3 SODIM 1.067 GHz, gaining the benefit of symmetric accesses
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Discussion
how to connect external tv card tuner on this laptop?
I have an Acer Aspire one 5742 laptop. I installed Linux Ubuntu 12.10 on it. I have one problem with it. no matter how I press the Fn+ up or Fn + down keys I cannot adjust the Screen Brightness. It is at its maximum brightness and this drains the laptop battery. I did some googling and found out that you needed to change some settings in the grub file but I don't know exactly what to do. Can anyone help me?
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I have a Acer Aspire 5742 Laptop, I want to install RHEL 5,
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