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I added a short section to the 5670 howto page describing a small, but scary issue regarding DVD movie playback. Basically, the region code was never set, so I used the regionset utility to set a region code. This enabled DVD movie playback to continue as I was used to.

I didn’t expect suspend-to-ram / sleep to work, since I was very suspicious of the binary ATI drivers, and honestly, they don’t seem to have the best reputation. More notes to follow on the main 5670 page…

If anyone else wants info regarding Gentoo (or another distro) on the Acer Aspire 5670, the page has been updated to the point where it is somewhat useful. Included is my kernel config and xorg.conf.

I’ll be keeping a journal of my installation and usage experiences of Gentoo on my Acer Aspire 5670. I purchased the 5670 in early February, and mainly used it as a Windows gaming machine until now. ATI released on 4/12/06 a new version of their proprietary drivers that support the X1400 graphics chip in this laptop, so I am hopeful that my experiences of using this laptop’s full feature set is quite likely.

Read about the install process, configuration files, and my general experiences.