aceracpi


Hardware Control for Acer Laptops via ACPI-WMI

  • Version 0.11.2 released 2008-03-12 (stable)

acer_acpi is a Linux kernel module to allow control of some of the hardware on later model Acer (and other Wistron OEM) laptops.

acer_acpi was originally developed by Mark Smith to enable the wireless LAN card of an Acer Aspire 5024 under 64-bit Linux. The previous solution to hardware access on these laptops, Olaf Tauber's acerhk, relied on BIOS calls to work - unfortunately, it is not possible to call a 32-bit BIOS routine from a 64 bit operating system, so acer_acpi was born.

If you want to contact the current maintainer, please use carlos(@)strangeworlds.co.uk (Carlos) or the aceracpi (General) mailing list.

8th February 2008 - acer-wmi, the upstream port of acer_acpi, has now been merged into 2.6.25. acer_acpi has now been deprecated in favour of acer-wmi, and is in bug-fix mode only for pre 2.6.25 kernels.

Source

acer_acpi development has moved to Git - http://repo.or.cz/w/acer_acpi.git

The Subversion repository here will be kept for:

  1. Historical purposes
  2. DSDTs, data files, etc, (they will not be moved to Git)

Packages

You are recommended to use a newer kernel with acer-wmi, rather than acer_acpi.

However, if you are still on an older kernel (2.6.24 or earlier), there are a few people who maintain packages for acer_acpi, if you don't want to build it yourself. (NOTE: I do not produce or maintain any of these builds below, except for the SlackBuild. Do not send or file any bugs about them with me).

Slackware/ Slamd64

Build your own. My SlackBuild is here: http://slackbuild.strangeworlds.co.uk/k/acer_acpi/

Arch Linux

acer_acpi is already included with Arch Linux by default.

Fedora

The following packages are maintained by Nicolas (kwizart).

Fedora 6 & 7

(Replace

<version>

with 6 or 7, respectively). wget http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-<version>.rpm rpm -ivh livna-release-<version>.rpm yum install kmod-acer_acpi

Fedora 8

See http://rpmfusion.org

Gentoo

acer_acpi is already included in Portage.

Ubuntu

8.04 (Hardy)

acer_acpi is now shipped with Ubuntu.

Pre Hardy

http://code.google.com/p/acer-acpi-deb

Project Information

  • License: GNU GPL v2
  • 24 stars
  • svn-based source control

Labels:
acer wireless wlan 5024 5020 bluetooth 9303 wistron aspire ndsiwrapper bcm43xx 5021 WMID AMW0 WMI