Aspire One Tips and Tricks you should know about
Posted by 
Michael Walsh) on Aug 24 2008 | Tagged as: Acer
While I try to get my head (and camera) around making these “How to…” videos and upload them into the all-new Acer Guy site which I’m rushing to get published, I came across this amazing site which any of you thinking of tinkering with your Aspire One should definitely bookmark.
Thanks to lornajane for bringing it to my attention in the first place and kudos to Jorge Barrera Grandon for putting it together in one, easy-to-read page.
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on 26 Aug 2008 at 7:33 am 1
Sally (Check me out!) said …
Hey! thank you so much for your website..it’s great. I just bought this adorable aspire one today and I am loving it! I have two questions for you, and plz plz try to answer! 1. according to my file manager, i only have 3.7 G space available out of 6.4G…Hm…shoudln’t there be 8 G?? I have defintely not add anything to this brand new laptop! 2. I have a 3 cell battery which will probably last 3 hours? is there anyway or place i can drop a little more money and trade it in for a 6 cell battery? what’s the expected battery life of it.. o yeah one more thing, how can i install a small game from popcap games such as dynamite? lol…please please help..thanks sooo much!!
on 27 Aug 2008 at 7:09 pm 2
Morris Lee (Check me out!) said …
Sally, I would assume that you have eRecovery partition used, not that i am sure of, but most of the acer laptop does come with eRecovery. As for your little game thing, is it a Windows Based game? if it is a windows based game, you need to look into Wine Windows compatibility layer for Linux.
on 31 Aug 2008 at 3:45 pm 3
Ruud (Check me out!) said …
Hi,
You may also want to have a look at http://macles.blogspot.com/
Which gives lot’s of info on improving Linpus.
on 31 Aug 2008 at 6:23 pm 4
filleh (Check me out!) said …
Hey!
I got this Acer 8920g, and I really want to change some of the Cinedash shortcuts. Like open another program instead of Arcade Deluxe, as an example.
You got any information you want to share about this with me and the big intarnetz?
Thank you
on 31 Aug 2008 at 11:32 pm 5
Morris Lee (Check me out!) said …
filleh,
For my Aspire 5920, there was a specific touch pad driver that was modded for 5920 touch media keys to rebind them. for the 8920 I am not to sure if there is one. but that is just a hint to how to search for something like it. the media keys are just another “Synaptics Touchpad device” also known as “Luxpad” where you touch it it lights up.
on 24 Sep 2008 at 10:18 pm 6
Katey Louise (Check me out!) said …
Hi!
My fiance just bought me a brand new Acer Aspire One. Everything’s great, however, we noticed that both the internal and external microphones are not working. We then checked out forums on the internet about Aspire One and found out that the mics are really defective.
Is there a fix for this?
Please help!
Thank you very much!
on 25 Sep 2008 at 7:18 am 7
Morris Lee (Check me out!) said …
not really, very obivouse that it is defective, sorry to tell you that. the build in mic attatches to the mainboard directly, but if that AND the external mic does not work, then means that the sound card is not controlling it properly.
BUT before you do anything, is it XP or Linux? if linux, the mic DOES NOT work on the webcam software it came with, and you have to unmute the mic in the Audio settings anyways.
For XP, try uninstalling ALL the realtek drivers, reboot, make sure it is not running with any drivers using device manager, then install the driver from Acer site, Google “Acer drivers” and go for the Europ one.
on 25 Sep 2008 at 5:51 pm 8
Katey Louise (Check me out!) said …
My aspire one’s OS is Linux (I think Linpus Lite).
I checked the settings before recording and the mic is NOT on mute.
I can play videos with sounds and I can listen to music. Speakers are fine. It’s only the recording with both the internal and external mics we have problems with.
We saw these online stating that the mics are really not working:
http://www.viloria.com/secondthoughts/archives/00001588.html
http://www.reviewcentre.com/reviews181896.html
Thanks for letting me know that the mic does not work on Linux’s webcam software. Thanks for the 411! I was enlightened.
on 25 Sep 2008 at 6:29 pm 9
Katey Louise (Check me out!) said …
Just an additional question:
Since my Aspire One is on Linux, I have plans of changing the operating system to XP. Will both the external and internal mics work properly if I change the OS to XP?
Thanks!
on 26 Sep 2008 at 1:12 am 10
Morris Lee (Check me out!) said …
probably yeah, XP is using entirely different driver ssytem, might work and XD cards works only in XP too(does not work in linux).
but according to the first source you linked me, it is the identical problem that you can’t record sound with the software for webcam, and I did tested it with skype, my mic works with it fine, and quite nicely too when i was chatting with my friend. I am not sure what he meant by “recognized” by skype, he did not state if it was actually working or not(maybe he didn’t have friends to call aahhah JK)
then again, I would give you a green on installing XP on your machine, just make sure you know how to restore it back to linpus with tha DVD.
on 26 Sep 2008 at 2:00 pm 11
Katey Louise (Check me out!) said …
Thank you very much! Great help! You rock!
Thanks, thanks!