Acer Aspire 6920G

This article will describe how to set up Arch Linux on an Acer Aspire 6920G.

Hardware

There are several versions of this model, so there may be some variation in hardware specs.

Hardware	Description
Processor	Intel(R) Core(TM)2 DuoCPU T8300 @ 2.40GHz
System Memory	4GB DDR2 667 MHz
Graphic Card	NVIDIA® GeForce® 9500M GS with up to 1280 MB of TurboCache™ (512 MB of dedicated GDDR2 VRAM, up to 768 MB of shared system memory
Display	16” Full HD 1920 x 1080 resolution, high-brightness (250- cd/m2) Acer CineCrystal™ TFT LCD, two lamps, 8 ms high-def response time, 16:9 aspect ratio
Sound Card	Intel High Definition Audio Controller
CD/DVD	Blu-Ray DVD±RW DL
Lan	Attansic Technology Corp. Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 PCI-E Ethernet Controller
WLan	Intel® Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN (dual-band quad-mode 802.11a/b/g/Draft-N)
WPan	Bluetooth® 2.0+EDR (Enhanced Data Rate)
Webcam	Acer Crystal Eye webcam
Touchpad	Synaptics PS/2 Port Touchpad
I/O Interface	1 x ExpressCard™/54 slot 1 x 5-in-one card reader: SD™ Card, MultiMediaCard, Memory Stick®, Memory Stick PRO™ or xD-Picture Card™ 4 x USB 2.0 Ports 1 x HDMI™ port with HDCP support 1 x Consumer infrared (CIR) port 1 x External display (VGA) port 1 x RF-in jack 1 x Headphone/speaker/line-out jack with S/PDIF support 1 x Microphone-in jack, Line-in jack 1 x Acer Bio-Protection fingerprint solution 1 x Modem: 56K ITU V.92 1 x Acer CineDash media console capacitive human interface device 1 x 105-/106-key keyboard English

Networking

LAN

The LAN card should work out of the box with the current release (2010.05 at time of writing).

Wireless

To see which firmware you need to install, use

dmesg | grep -i net

Then install the firmware with

# pacman -S iwlwifi-3945-ucode

or

# pacman -S iwlwifi-4965-ucode

For more info, see Wireless Setup

Multimedia Buttons

Multimedia buttons can be configured using Keytouch, available in the AUR.

For more information, see Keytouch

nVidia Warnings

The Acer Aspire uses a Geforce 9500M GS graphics card. As of the time of writing, this can sometimes produce errors when returning to the TTY while running X. While this bug has been reported, if you have more information, please e-mail me at jsanchezsilvera[at]gmail[dot]com.

For information on installing and configuring nVidia drivers, visit the NVIDIA wiki.

Sound

The Acer Aspire 6920G seems to have a Realtek ALC889 chipset. By default the sound card won't work.

For Alsa setup see ALSA.

edit /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf and add the following line.

options snd-hda-intel model=auto

Reboot and enjoy your multimedia.