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In these Conditions of Sale: “The Company” means Require IT Ltd “The Buyer” means the person, firm or Company ordering or buying goods from the Company. “The Goods” mean the Goods the subject matter of the relevant order for sale. “Working Days” means any other day other than a Saturday, Sunday or Bank Holiday. “Calendar Day” means any day of the year. “Conditions” this document and (unless the context other requires) includes any special terms and conditions agreed in writing between the Buyer and Seller. “Date” stipulated in the Buyers order and accepted by the Seller. “Item” means the goods (including any instalment of the goods parts for them) which the Seller is to supply in accordance with these Conditions.

No contract in respect of the Goods between the Company and the Buyer shall exist until the Buyer’s order has been accepted by the Company. In the event that the Buyers order seeks to make the sale subject to terms different from these conditions, acceptance of the Buyers order by the Company (whether or not such acceptance is accepted by formal order acknowledgement) shall be deemed to be a fresh offer by the Company on the basis of these conditions. In which event (unless these conditions are accepted by the Buyer prior to delivery) acceptance of delivery of the Goods by the Buyer shall constitute acceptance of the Company’s offer and the contract of Sale shall be formed at that moment. No conditions or terms stipulated in any other communications or document shall vary or annul any of these conditions except insofar as the same are expressly consented to in writing by the Company. By clicking to buy any of our items on means the Buyer has agreed with our Terms and Conditions.

You have the right to request a copy of any information that we currently hold about you. In order to receive such information please send your contact details including address and payment of 35gbp to cover administration expenses to the following address: Require IT, 12A Sterling Complex, Farthing Road Industrial Estate, Ipswich, IP1 5AP

Quoted prices include the cost of normal packaging but exclude delivery, transit insurance (which is carried at extra cost) VAT or installation charges (where applicable). Any work carried out additional to that specified in the relevant quotations or order, whether experimentally or otherwise, shall be charged.

Prices quoted are current prices. Prices of imported goods are subject to variances in exchange rates and in consequence prices will be these holding at time of delivery. Please telephone us should you wish to confirm current price.

The prices for the Goods shall be those ruling at the date of dispatch and the Company reserves the right to amend its quoted prices at any time prior to the date of dispatch.

All prices for Products or Services stated in any quote or estimate are in acceptance and are those current at the time of the Buyers enquiry and will be valid for 7 days.

(c) Should work be suspended at the request of or delayed through any default of the Buyer for a period of 30 (Thirty) days the Company shall then be entitled to payment for work already carried out, materials specially ordered and other additional costs including storage.

(d) All items purchased before 16.30 on any working day will be dispatched same day. We ship worldwide. There can be extra shipping charges for items bought outside the UK. If you miss your delivery the courier or postal service we have used will leave you a card with the telephone number of the local depot for you to contact them to arrange a convenient time for your collection.

If you do not have a credit account open with us, please ask for a credit application form. Accounts usually take 2 working days to set up, but this period can be reduced if specifically requested. Our credit controllers will be pleased to assist with any problems related to credit. We are pleased to offer credit terms to qualified parties. Our credit terms are 30 (Thirty) days NET from date of invoice. Statements are sent out at monthly intervals to enable you to check your current invoices paid and due. Accounts with overdue balances will be placed on credit hold. This means that no further Goods will be shipped and all support and Repair/Warranty services withdrawn until the account is brought into order. Repeated failure to keep to our credit terms will result in the permanent loss of credit facilities. The Company reserves the right not to release any products or continue to provide any services until such payments are cleared and credited to The Company’s bank account.

We reserve the right to charge interest on debts past due at 10% APR calculated monthly on the outstanding balance until full payment is received. If we need to appoint an external agent to enforce recovery of any overdue monies, we also reserve the right to add all their costs and any additional legal fees incurred to your outstanding balance.

The Company and the Buyer expressly agree that until the Company has been paid in full for the Goods comprised in this or any other sales contract between them and all outstanding amounts due to the Company from the Buyer or any associated or subsidiary or holding company of the Buyer or from any Director or shareholder of the Buyer or any other such company.

The Goods shall remain the property of the Company and the buyers, as bailees of them for the Company will store the same for the Company in a proper manor without charge and in such a way that the Goods are clearly identified as being the property of the Company, notwithstanding that the risk therein shall pass to the buyer as provided herein.

At any time the Company may recover from the buyer the Goods remaining in the Buyers possession and for the purposes thereof may enter upon any premises of or occupied by the buyer or any third party (with the consent of the third party).

The Buyer has the right to dispose of the Goods in the course of its business for the account of the Company and pass good title to the Goods to their customers being bona fide purchasers for value without notice of the Company’s rights.

In the event of such disposition the Buyer or its Director(s) (if a Limited Company) has the fiduciary duty to account to the Company for proceeds thereof but may retain therefrom an excess of such proceeds over the amount outstanding to the Company under this or any other sales contract between them and for all outstanding amounts due to the Company from the Buyer or any associated or subsidiary or holding Company of the Buyer or from any Director or shareholder of the Buyer or any other such Company.

The Company takes no responsibility for the fitting of the screen by the Buyer. If the Buyer damages the screen whilst fitting, the responsibility is that of the Buyer.

(b) The Company shall be entitled to make a reasonable charge for the storage of any of the Buyer’s property with the Company before the receipt of the order or after notification to the buyer of the completion of the work.

The Buyer shall examine the Goods immediately when they are delivered to them. The Company reserves the right to reject claims in respect of shortages or damage in transit or non-delivery of the Goods, 28 days after the due date for delivery.

While the Company will use its best endeavours to deliver the Goods in accordance with the Buyer’s requirements; the Company will not be liable for any consequences of late delivery how so ever caused.

If the Buyer has received defective item(s) or item(s) damaged in transit the Buyer has 24 hours in receipt of the goods to call and inform the Company. Require IT can be contacted on +44 (0)1473 742656 or emailed at returns@requireit.co.uk When returning to us, please ensure the RMA number is displayed on the packaging and please provide a cover note with a detailed description of the fault. If the item is not available at the time the Company will refund the Buyer in full.

The Company’s liability (both in contract and in tort) in respect of defects in the Goods shall be limited to the replacement of the faulty items or material, or the issue of credit notes in respect thereof, or the granting of refunds or other such compensatory measures as the Company at its discretion considers appropriate in the circumstances. Such measures shall relate only to the faulty items or their value, and the Company shall not in any circumstances be under any liability to the buyer in respect of indirect or consequential loss or damage, loss of profits sustained by the buyer PROVIDED, always that these conditions do not exclude or restrict the Company’s liability for death or personal injury rising from its negligence.

The parties hereto accept that the Company will suffer loss if a member of their staff accepts an offer of employment with the other party during the continuance of this contract and six months thereafter. If such a member of the Company’s staff accepts such an offer of employment with the other party, the other party agrees to pay the Company the equivalent of six months salary for that member of staff. The provisions of this clause shall apply to subsidiaries, associates and parent Companies of the Company and the other party.

The Company reserves any right to cancel, vary or suspend the operation of Contract of Sale if events occur which are in the nature of Force Majeure including (without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing) fire, floods, storms, plant breakdown, strikes, lockouts, riots, hostilities, non-availability of materials or supplies or any other event outside the control of the Company and the Company shall not be held liable for any breach of contract resulting from such an event.

Enters into a composition with its creditors, or (being a company) has a receiver appointed or passes a resolution for winding up or if a court shall order it to be wound up, or commits on an available act of bankruptcy, or

Is in breach of any items and conditions contained herein (notwithstanding that on a former occasion or occasions it has waived its rights). The exercise of rights under condition 15 and under this condition 16 shall be without prejudice to the Company’s other rights or remedies.

(a) Information we collect: We may collect personal identifiable information about you, such as your full name, phone number and email address when you place an order with us. We do not send promotional emails; however, we may send service related emails related to your account or orders.

Where goods have been ordered by a specific part number the Company reserves the right to substitute this product with a compatible part of the same quality and price. The cost of returning any such substitute goods to The Company in the event of cancellation by the Buyer and the Buyers responsibility. Some part numbers quoted have been out of production for many years. If your item is not currently in stock, we will back order for you. You will always be emailed with the option to cancel your order if you would rather not wait. The Company may ship 100% compatible parts.

The Company reserves the right to withdraw any Goods from the website at any time. The Company will not be liable to anyone for withdrawing any goods from the website or for refusing to process an order. The Company reserves the right to vary the specification of any item, withdraw or amend any item without prior notice.

All of our items come with a full warranty. All warranty is return to base and the Company are not liable for any damages incurred whilst returning parts.

If by any means the Buyer decides they do not want the item they have 7 days from delivery date to inform the Company, obtain an RMA number from us, return the item(s) in its original packaging unscratched and undamaged in any way and obtain a refund.

For all returned goods a Returns Authorisation Number (RMA) must first be obtained from our Customer Advocacy Department immediately. All returned goods must be clearly marked with a valid returns number as supplied by the Company. Goods must be in their original packaging. Returned item(s) must be the exact item which the Company originally shipped out and must have all original labels, original shape, quality and quantity, warranty stickers and serial numbers in place, unscratched an undamaged. It is the responsibility of the Buyer to ensure the item is returned to us safely. All returned items will be tested before issuing refund or replacement. The Buyer must inform the Company of any returns by email or telephone and obtain proof of posting using a Recorded/Signed For service. In the unlikely event that returned items are lost in transit, that is the responsibility of the Buyer.

Except as may be implied by Law where the Buyer is dealing as a Consumer, in the event of any breach of these Terms and Conditions by the Seller the Remedies of the Buyer shall be limited to damages which shall in no circumstances exceed the price of the Goods and the Seller shall under no circumstances be liable for any indirect, incidental or consequential loss or damage whatsoever.

No waiver by the Seller (whether express or implied) in enforcing any of its rights under this contract shall prejudice its rights to do so in the future.

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The DebianEeePC project also has documentation describing the installation of Debian on an Atom processor, the page you are reading however is devoted solely to the Acer Aspire One. You can boot and install using the debian-installer from Lenny (Debian stable, version 5.0) and the snapshot images without needing anything from the DebianEeePC project.

the second generation 10 inch screen models (A250) include unsupported wired Ethernet adapters (is this still true, or which is not natively supported) — you will need to install using the wireless card, and if needed, compile the wired network module later on;

the 11 inch screen models (AO751h) are partially supported in lenny: the wired driver works and can be used for the installation; although the installation will give you a working laptop, however many changes will be needed to get all hardware working (including the maximum 1366 x 768 resolution which is not supported by the lenny x.org). (it is likely this will improve in later Debian releases)

This page is designed to help with installation of Debian GNU/Linux on the Acer Aspire One Netbook. There is additional information on installation of necessary drivers and other optimizations.

There are many ways to install Debian. One way to install Debian on the Acer Aspire One is to use a flash USB drive. This might be your first choice since the Acer One does not ship with a CD-ROM drive. You will need a flash USB drive that is 256MB or larger. The below method outlines how to modify a flash drive putting the Debian installer on it. For other methods of installation please refer to the section Alternative Installation Methods or see the install guide.

This method temporarily limits your memory stick to 256 MiB and destroys all data on it, but is simple to get working. You can chose to re-partition your memory stick once you are done installing Debian with it. To keep the memory stick, (hereafter called a flash drive) in its current size and still have the installer on it, follow the Formatting your drive with additional software for booting directions below.

Note3: To install Debian Squeeze, I had to follow these instructions: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=604560#19 Worked for me, but as the description is a bit dense, here"s what I did in more detail. With fdisk, created one partition taking up all the space and that is bootable ("a" in fdisk). # cat /usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin > /dev/sdz

Finally, to save yourself from trouble, take a USB key with a sector size of 512 bytes. Couldn"t get syslinux to boot on one that had a size of 2048 bytes. --?ViktorHorvath

You can format your flash drive to make it bootable (USB-ZIP compatible). This requires the mkdiskimage script included in the syslinux package. The following table shows commands to create the correctly sized partitions for booting from your USB flash drive, found at this forum post.

Note: I tried doing this from Debian 4.0 (Etch). The syslinux package in Etch is rather outdated and doesn"t support the -dparameter, and consequently the above instructions didn"t work. Therefore, make sure you run an up-to-date version of syslinux. --?OddHenriksen

To get the Aspire One to boot from a USB stick you must enable USB booting from the BIOS. To do this, press F2 as the laptop boots and ensure booting from a USB is enabled in the BIOS, and that the F12 boot menu is also enabled. (nb: with the later laptops you get a very short time to press F2, so be quick!)

Reboot your Aspire One with the USB stick in one of its USB sockets. When you see the BIOS screen, hit F12 to bring up a menu and select the USB stick as the boot device (again you must be quick to press F12 or the laptop will continue booting).

In theory the installation of Debian lenny or later should proceed without issue. In practice you might find a problem such as:Depending on the model number of your laptop, either the wired or wireless networking may be unsupported. (On recent models, wired networking should work without issue)

SD cards may not be detected - this is likely a bug in the Aspire One"s hardware/firmware, but at the time of this writing (when was this written? does it still apply?) it does not detect an SD card insertion in either of the card slots. However, rebooting the computer with the card inserted will cause it to be detected (as /dev/mmcblk0). (The hardware requires a script to poll it; see below.)

If you are installing an old (pre-lenny) version of Debian you are more likely to find problems:If the USB stick image did not have the nls_utf8 kernel module available, preventing the installer from mounting the ISO image. The "fix" was to grab the nls_utf8 kernel module from a working Debian system with the same kernel version, put it on the USB stick, execute a shell from the installer, and insert the nls_utf8 module manually before continuing

If your laptop came preinstalled with Windows, and you want to keep it ("dual-booting") you can resize the Windows partition from within the installer - see the installation guide for more information; it should work without issue.

If you are trying the Debian Testing, you may experience the system freezing, and that is related to Linux 3.1.0. An easy fix is to install the linux-image-2.6, or wait for a better solution.

See the install guide for other ways to start the installation. In particular:a USB (eSATA etc.) hard drive should work in-place of a USB flash drive, follow the procedure above.

for those who purchased an Acer One with Windows preinstalled (sadly this probably now your only option), win32-loader provides a Debian installer that runs from Windows.

The following text headed USB install working from ONLY this box and a thumbdrive. was added to an earlier version of this page. Perhaps it is still useful for someone.

For Atheros devices, the Linux kernel"s ath5k driver works correctly as of Linux 2.6.28 (n.b. you may need to load the rfkill module as well to have the radio enabled).

For Broadcom devices, one of the bcm43xx Linux kernel drivers can be used, requiring installation of either firmware-b43-installer from contrib or broadcom-sta-dkms from non-free.

Another piece of hardware that may not work after installation is the webcam. For this, you will need the uvcvideo driver. Simply checkout the latest revision of uvcvideo from svn://svn.berlios.de/linux-uvc/linux-uvc/trunk, and build it from source. (Note, again, the source package included in testing works.).

The 11 inch Acer One supports a 1366 x 768 resolution, but with lenny only 1024x600 will be detected. To run at the full resolution follow these steps:

For the earlier Acer models, the highest video mode available from the video bios is 800x600x32. To get a fairly reasonable framebuffer for your virtual terminals pass "vga=8" to the kernel. This will give you a framebuffer of 800x600x16.

When running under X, the native/optimum resolution is 1024x600 (standard widescreen ratio). The default X11 configuration will give you fonts that are too large for this resolution - You can add the following line to the "Monitor" section of your "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" file:

Follow the relevant section depending on your BIOS version. To check your BIOS version, reboot your Aspire One and enter the BIOS before the OS boots to display the version string. (Press the F2 key right after boot to enter the BIOS.)

A script to poll the card reader for power events (AC unplugged, etc.) is included on the recovery DVD shipped with the machine within the "hdc1._.tar.bz2" archive as /usr/sbin/jmb38x_d3e.sh. This script runs once every 5 minutes and adjusts the power level depending on the system power state.

The "pciehp" module will allow the card slots to appear as hotplug devices. Once a card is inserted, the "install" line in the modprobe configuration will set the controller up to behave appropriately, and then load the sdhci driver. hal should spot the cards being inserted, and either GNOME or KDE should automatically mount the cards when inserted.

(This text may apply to earlier BIOS versions - as I recall, this was working in this fashion in BIOS v.3308, possibly earlier revisions. Ensure you are running the latest BIOS Acer have provided.)

This Aspire One BIOS no longer requires the above hacks to reprogram the SD controller"s register 0xAE to 0x47, nor does it require the pciehp module to hotplug the controller when a card is inserted. In fact, they reveal the controller during system startup and set the register to support SDHCI mode during the system boot process.

As such, if you"re running this BIOS version or newer, you can go ahead and ignore everything above and even back out the changes you made if you"re already using Debian on your Aspire One.

The current testing and unstable kernels have trouble with memstick modules causing a soft lockup (related to the memory stick part of the multi-reader). It is advised that the modules for this are blocked. Debian bug 500058 has been raised for this issue.

http://www.nabble.com/Debian-netbook-aspire-one-td19141623.html gives a solution to repair the situation. Modifying the path so that it does not cause configuration file conflicts with module-init-tools, create a file /etc/modprobe.d/aspire-blacklist-memstick.conf with the following contents:

The snd-hda-intel module included in kernels 2.6.25+ will work just fine without installing any alsa packages. However in kernels 2.6.26+ a new snd module was added " snd-pcsp". This module if loaded before snd-hda-intel will casue a conflict and bad sound quality. If you have this problem, blacklist snd-pcsp or if you do like annoying beeping sounds add

Also the mic might not function until a jack is sensed and/or removed at least once from the line-in / mic jack. With the D250 and PulseAudio, you may have to disconnect the two channel (left/right) of the MIC with parvucontrol. See post 16 and 18 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1313137&page=2

The alsa driver goes into suspend when the system does,but when it returns,it will resume once any open apps using alsa are restarted(i.e.suspend while playing a music file,then resume,music player may continue to "play" the track,but no sound plays).Closing and restarting the player should fix this.If You would like to have audio return without having to restart apps,You can create a blank/empty audio file,and run aplay "/path/to/blank/wav",and alsa should resume properly.Add that to a script in /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d for example:

The Acer One has a 2 button touchpad ("middle click" can be emulated by clicking both buttons at once, and running your finger down the rightmost or bottom-most edges acts as a mouse wheel). On a lenny installation on a 13 inch Acer One, the touchpad was correctly configured by the installer and no cutomisation was needed (and the xorg.conf section is almost empty - nothing like the complications below).

The SSD on the Aspire is somewhat slow (the author recorded a peak 28.8 MB/s read time with O_DIRECT and 7.0 MB/s write time). Consequently, you may want take extra measures to minimize disk I/O.

Another trick is to mount some folders on one or more ramdisks. The folders list is: /var/cache, /var/lock, /var/log, /var/run, /var/mail, /var/spool, /var/tmp, /tmp and the browser cache directory (in Firefox the exact path of the cache directory can be found on the "about:cache" page). Here are the steps to do this:Add this line to your /etc/fstab:none /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0

WARNING: Using this method prevented me from installing some software. dpkg would give me segmentation faults when trying to install some packages that interact with /var/*, notably cups. This method will also kill your memory if you use pbuilder in the default /var/cache/pbuilder location. I would recommend being careful about this: --Daniel Moerner (dmoerner)

It is possible to have big improvements in disk writing speed by adding a 8 Gb SD card in the left slot and configuring a Raid 0 with the internal one; the whole space is available, we just lose some reliability; backup data frequently ! It is necessary to re-install debian, create two identical partitions, one in internal and one in external card, and create a raid 0 device with them. Make two 7.8 Gb (or less) partitions, with the remaining space you can create a boot and a swap partition. Do not forget to blacklist the memstick and jmb38_ms modules on the /dev/md0 filesystem, as desribed on "Memory stick disabling" BEFORE ending the installation process, otherwise the system will not reboot; in this case you should reboot the Acer from usb and choose a rescue mode.

Adobe Flash has a check for incompatible/buggy hardware that looks for SGI in the client glx vendor string see this link. Create the directory /etc/adobe (if not present), and put a file with the contents (or add to/edit current file):OverrideGPUValidation = 1

NOTE:There was a typo in the kernel source(I am not sure when it surfaced)that caused the following to have no effect,but the stable/lenny (2.6.26-15) kernel doesnt even have "CONFIG_MTRR_SANITIZER=y" configured,which is required for the option below to work (actually,looking at the source for lenny"s kernel,I found no reference at all? I dont know if the 2.6.26 kernel supported this, as I believe it was added in 2.6.28).

The option was changed to mtrr-cleanup in the resulting patch. A workaround is to install the kernel/headers from sid,and required dependencies (kbuild,etc.), although You will have to manually update these Yourself in the future.The correct kernel option for the sid kernel (2.6.29-2) is enable_mtrr_cleanup

Also The sid kernel doesnt have "CONFIG_ACPI_PROC_EVENT" set, so You also need to install acpid, acpi-support, and acpi-support-base from sid, or the acpi scripts that rely on /proc/events wont run (such as the lid.sh script for suspend to ram in this wiki).

Also, due to a bug in the Aspire One BIOS, all of the available mtrrs are setup prior to the system booting. This means that Xorg cannot allocate any to speed up graphics rendering.

There is an unsupported, unofficial Apt repository that holds this software, flawed the approach this takes as it is (yes, look at the above mentioned bug report please) - The easiest way out is to add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list:

In case you want to do the setup by yourself:Goto http://home.strangenoises.org/~rachel/aspireone/acerfand/ and download all the scripts acerfand and acer_ec.pl files, make them executable:

Optional: Above instructions will work fine, but if you want to define another temperature:Create an /etc/acerfand.conf file. The file is just a shell script that sets up to three values. eg:

If you want your Aspire One to suspend when you close the lid, install the packages acpid and acpi-support (or acpi-support-base to save a bit of space on disk) and then edit (or create if not present) the file /etc/acpi/lid.sh to just contain:

The program pm-suspend only works with root permissions so you will have to type the root password every time before suspending. You can avoid that by putting the line

When i boot from the pen drive I see the option of TRY Mint 18.1, Install Mint 18.1 etc but when I choose any option of them ,the screen turns black and i can not continue with the installation.

I know that after the installation you have to edit the trusted EFI file in the bios but i cannot do nothing after the main installation page. So I can not reach that point

You are right. ACPI off wasthe solution to the black screen problem but.... during installation I can not see any partition of my drive C and i do not know how to fix this issue.

All you need to do in Windows is to shrink your windows partition to create some 30-50Gb "unallocated space" on your disk, no need to partition it. Then boot your live USB, start the installer and pick the "something else" option.

My Acer cloudbook 431 has an emmc disk. I read another post in this forum from another user and your response in that time was that emmc arent really hard drives . I think that is the problem so it is impossible to install any linux distro in this machine.

Some people could in the past (fascinatingcaptain and others) but in February of 2017 Acer published an update for the BIOS with Enhanced eMMC storage"s compatibility.

In your Boot priority order the eMMC block device needs to have a lower boot priority than the USB bootable device https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Acer_Cloudbook

--In order for the system to recognized the installed OS, you must ensure the system is using UEFI boot mode as well as enabling Firmware TPM BEFORE installation. Secure boot MUST be off for installation and after installation. Legacy Option ROM should be disabled. After install, the system will recognize the OS and boot properly after the TPM check which will only occur at the very first bootup and never occur again.

However, none of those how-tos mention a problem with actually seeing the emmc. Something isn"t right here; make sure you didn"t set a password for the emmc in bios...

is there a way to disable the existing windows entry? Maybe "enabling" means the emmc drive will be dedicated to the trusted entry and hidden from all "alien" boots; sort of Acer"s way of turning a low capacity drive into a "security" feature"...

When i boot from the pen drive I see the option of TRY Mint 18.1, Install Mint 18.1 etc but when I choose any option of them ,the screen turns black and i can not continue with the installation. ------------------------------------------------ i have tried with all the options (few) of the bios, but the final result is the same.

You are not alone. I bought one several months ago with the idea of installing Linux on it. I read the articles by Fascinating Captain and Martin Bernaerts also, found adding acpi=off to grub will get it to boot the installer and also updated the bios to 1.12 to try to get Linux installed, but like you most of the distros I"ve tried can"t see the eMMC drive. They only see the USB drive, despite trying various options in the BIOS.

The machine is lightweight and the battery powers it for many hours. I"m currently running it with WattOS 64-bit from a USB drive. After booting WattOS, I add the Brightness applet to the panel to dim the display. Closing the lid turns off the display and reopening it powers the display back on again. I was recently at a conference and had it running WattOS. With websurfing and playing music (from a second USB drive), at the end of the first day I had 2 hours of battery time left. At the end of the second day, I had four hours left. I hope whatever is preventing Linux from being installed to the eMMC drive can be solved. It would be like having a bigger version of the original EeePC.

Thank you for your advice. I was able to install elementary Loki 0.4 after upgrading firmware to 1.12. This upgrade that is available on the Acer web site specifically addresses eMMC compatibility.

Before the upgrade, I was able to run Ubuntu-based distros like mint, peppermint, elementary only in live mode as these systems did not see the eMMC at all. RHEL based linux like Fedora or OpenSUSE could be installed but did not run. Now I can run my Linux on this cloudbook normally, I just had to add edd=off noapic modeprobe.blacklist=pinctrl_cherryview to grub configuration and run everything in legacy mode. Hope this will help.

I did not tried this in elementary because i want to install mint ,but my question for the experts is which is the "translation" of add edd=off noapic modeprobe.blacklist=pinctrl_cherryview for the mint GRUB

Thank you for your advice. I was able to install elementary Loki 0.4 after upgrading firmware to 1.12. This upgrade that is available on the Acer web site specifically addresses eMMC compatibility.

Before the upgrade, I was able to run Ubuntu-based distros like mint, peppermint, elementary only in live mode as these systems did not see the eMMC at all. RHEL based linux like Fedora or OpenSUSE could be installed but did not run. Now I can run my Linux on this cloudbook normally, I just had to add edd=off noapic modeprobe.blacklist=pinctrl_cherryview to grub configuration and run everything in legacy mode. Hope this will help.

I did not tried this in elementary because i want to install mint ,but my question for the experts is which is the "translation" of add edd=off noapic modeprobe.blacklist=pinctrl_cherryview for the mint GRUB

Those are kernel parameters. The kernels used for Elementary and Mint are probably near enough to each other that the parameters should be the same in Mint. I"ll have to try it.

Even with those parameters added to GRUB, no luck in getting Linux Mint 18, Elementary or WattOS R10 to see the eMMC drive. Shouldn"t it be modprobe instead of modeprobe? I tried both and the outcome was the same. Also, my Cloudbook requires acpi=off instead of noapic to boot Linux.

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