{"id":108,"date":"2006-09-12T23:04:56","date_gmt":"2006-09-13T04:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/?p=108"},"modified":"2006-09-14T22:42:36","modified_gmt":"2006-09-15T03:42:36","slug":"acer-aspire-1690-fc2-fc5-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/?p=108","title":{"rendered":"Acer Aspire 1690: FC2 -> FC5 upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After about 1 1\/2 years on FC2, I finally upgraded my Acer Aspire 1690 laptop.&nbsp; If you read my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?s=acer+aspire&amp;submit=Search+the+Blog\">earlier posts on installing FC2<\/a>  then you know it wasn&#39;t a straight forward configuration to get everything working.&nbsp; I&#39;m pleased to say that is no longer the case.&nbsp; FC5 covers essentially everything I need, although I did need to follow one additional page to get the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ces.clemson.edu\/linux\/fc2-ipw2200.shtml\">IPW2200 wireless<\/a>  working.&nbsp; But even that was a perfect recipe that worked the first time.&nbsp; Everything is up and running again.<\/p>\n<p>The only real problem was getting my FC5 image updated immediately after installing.&nbsp; I&#39;ve had these FC5 images for a few months so the first thing I do after installing is update the system with yum.&nbsp; It hit a &quot;hickup&quot; when trying to deal with bind-config vs bind.&nbsp; The former is apparently needed by NetworkManager or possibly Evolution.&nbsp; In anycase, I uninstalled bind, Evolution and NetworkManager then did the update.&nbsp; After that I reinstalled evolution and everything worked just fine.&nbsp; I&#39;m not sure what NetworkManager really is, but there is supposed to be a GNOME applet for it so maybe I&#39;ll try it.&nbsp; Right now I use the Network Monitor applet instead.<\/p>\n<p>I still haven&#39;t tried the Bluetooth or Smart Card slot, nor the infrared contoller (though I do have MythTV frontend installed on it).&nbsp; I have to admit, with plenty of disk space, plenty of memory and a DVD write too boot, this laptop should last me another 5 years at least.&nbsp; Cross your fingers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" size=\"1\" noshade=\"noshade\" \/><strong><font color=\"#000066\">Update: 2006-09-14<\/font><\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>I had one more thing to fix.&nbsp; My display looked pretty bad but I couldn&#39;t figure out why.&nbsp; It finally dawned on me that it was running at 1024&#215;768 instead of the intended 1280&#215;800.&nbsp; I still have to run the 915resolution program to patch the video BIOS in order to get the proper resolution.&nbsp; I used to run 855resolution, but 915resolution is the new version applicable to my hardware (Intel 915GM).&nbsp;&nbsp; Anyway, after running this the display is correct and the fonts no longer look blurred.&nbsp; Whew!&nbsp; My eyes were really hurtin&#39; with this display at 1024&#215;768.&nbsp; It&#39;s really blurry at that resolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After about 1 1\/2 years on FC2, I finally upgraded my Acer Aspire 1690 laptop.&nbsp; If you read my earlier posts on installing FC2 then you know it wasn&#39;t a straight forward configuration to get everything working.&nbsp; I&#39;m pleased to say that is no longer the case.&nbsp; FC5 covers essentially everything I need, although I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,8,5],"tags":[64,65,48,39,43,619,621,625,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-acer-aspire-1690i","7":"category-hardware","8":"category-linux","9":"tag-acer","10":"tag-aspire","11":"tag-gnome","12":"tag-graphics","13":"tag-intel","14":"tag-linux","15":"tag-mythtv","16":"tag-video","17":"tag-yum","18":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe9t8-1K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}