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Updated Aug 30, 2009 by cathectic
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SupportedHardware  
The following is a list of laptops known to be supported or unsupported by acer_acpi.

Supported Hardware

Bluetooth

Bluetooth is an optional device. Most of the supported laptop series can support a bluetooth module, but many don't have one. So, just because you have a bluetooth button, doesn't mean you actually have a bluetooth module in your laptop.

Unfortunately, we can't detect this on acer_acpi (on WMID, if you try to write to this, you'll get an error message in dmesg. On AMW0, this will just fail silently).

WMID Users

Mail LED

This is only supported on some WMID laptops by driving it through the Embedded Controller. To test this on another WMID laptop, load acer_acpi with "force_series=2490".

3G

Unless you have specifically bought a 3G model, you don't have this built in.

Acer lists such laptops twice - in the case of the Aspire 5680, there is the 'Aspire 5680-3G' and the 'Aspire 5680'.

Unless you have bought the -3G version of a laptop series, you don't have 3G (unfortunately, we can't tell them apart in acer_acpi).

Introduction

To summarise: the driver only supports those laptops that have an ACPI-WMI device (defined in your laptops DSDT). So, any laptop that doesn't provide this device is not supported.

acer_acpi is not limited to just Acer laptops - we know at least one Fujitsu Siemens and one Medion laptop use the same ACPI-WMI interface as Acer.

Unfortunately, it is not possible to tell by the hardware alone which laptop series require acer_acpi. The chances are, if you need to install LaunchManager or the Mobility Center add-on in Windows just to turn on your wireless, bluetooth, etc, then you probably need this driver.

If you discover your hardware is supported by acer_acpi and it is not listed here, please send a dump of /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/DSDT (/proc/acpi/dsdt on older kernels) to me (carlos(@)strangeworlds.co.uk), also listing the make and model of your laptop.

If your hardware is not listed on either supported or unsupported, and acer_acpi does not load, please send me the dump of /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/DSDT (/proc/acpi/dsdt on older kernels) and the make and model anyway, as that way we can decide if acer_acpi just needs tweaking to work on your hardware, or so we can definitely rule out your hardware as compatible.

If your hardware is listed as not having a dump available, please send one - we are looking into any additional functionality that acer_acpi can expose (which, at the moment, seems to be none).

All of our available DSDT dumps (translated to readable ASL) can be found in the Subversion repository

Legend:

  • u = Unconfirmed (Taken from the internet, please confirm if you have this model)
  • c = Confirmed (We have been told that this works, or confirmed that it doesn't)
  • d = DSDT available
  • dw = DSDT wanted (Please submit yours to us)
  • n = No WMI ACPI interface, will not support
  • r = New WMI ACPI interface, requires reverse engineering
  • k = Requires a keyboard quirk to enable multimedia keys
  • 1 = AMW0 interface
  • 2 = WMID interface
  • 3 = AMW0 v2 interface (AMW0 and WMID)
  • 4 = WMID v2 interface (new, UNSUPPORTED)

Supported

This list is very incomplete. These are only the models that have been reported back to us as working - if your laptop works and is not on here, please report back.

Acer

Aspire

Extensa

Ferrari

Travelmate

Fujitsu Siemens

Amilo

Medion

MD

TODO

The following laptops use a new WMI interface (which I've titled 'WMID v2'). This will need to be reverse engineered before these laptops will work with acer-wmi.

Acer

Aspire

Unsupported

This list is very incomplete. The models listed here are the ones known to absolutely not work with this driver - if you have one of these: it is not, cannot and will not be supported by acer_acpi. (Some of these might be useable with acerhk, or the wireless/ bluetooth switches may be hardware driven instead and not require any software).

Acer

Aspire

Extensa

Ferrari

Travelmate

Compal

Prestigio

Nobile

Medion

MD

Unknown

I have no information on these laptops either way - reports from the field (with DSDTs) would be much appreciated. (This list is also very incomplete).

Acer

Aspire

TravelMate

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