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
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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.
Sourceacer_acpi development has moved to Git - http://repo.or.cz/w/acer_acpi.git
The Subversion repository here will be kept for:
Historical purposes DSDTs, data files, etc, (they will not be moved to Git) PackagesYou 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/ Slamd64Build your own. My SlackBuild is here: http://slackbuild.strangeworlds.co.uk/k/acer_acpi/
Arch Linuxacer_acpi is already included with Arch Linux by default.
FedoraThe following packages are maintained by Nicolas (kwizart).
Fedora 6 & 7(Replace with 6 or 7, respectively).
wget http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-.rpm
rpm -ivh livna-release-.rpm
yum install kmod-acer_acpiFedora 8See http://rpmfusion.org
Gentooacer_acpi is already included in Portage.
Ubuntu8.04 (Hardy)acer_acpi is now shipped with Ubuntu.
Pre Hardyhttp://code.google.com/p/acer-acpi-deb [Less]
