Acer Aspire One questions

[Madison Kelly]

Giles Orr wrote:
> I bought an Acer Aspire One recently and installed Debian testing on
> it.  I have several questions:
> 
> - the command "cat /proc/cpuinfo" shows not one, but two Intel Atom
> chips.  Does anybody know why?

There is a dual-core model:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_atom#Atom_300_series

Probably that's what you've got.

> - the command "acpi -t" returns no information at all, where would I
> start on getting that working?

Not sure, but I know on my Debian server I get nothing from ACPI, too. 
I've not looked into it, but would be curious to hear what you find out.

> - audio volume is staggeringly low, even with the volume control
> cranked to the max - I see mention of this happening to some people,
> apparently across different hardware types, but no solution (I know
> the volume was considerably higher under Linpus Linux)

 From the command line, with root priv., try running alsamixer. Not sure 
if this is your problem, but I've run into trouble when one of the 
volumes not shown in Gnome was set low. Turning it up fixed the problem.

HTH,

Madi
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