Acer Aspire E11 Series

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Device
Working
Intel graphics
Yes
Network
Yes
Broadcom wireless
Manual
Atheros Wireless
Yes
ALSA
Yes
Touchpad
Manual
Webcam
Yes
Card Reader
Yes
Power management
No
Aspire E11 Series
Installation
Warning
Should you wish to return to
Windows 8.1 with Bing
, it is imperative to
#Create a recovery drive
. The correct installation medium is only available to system manufacturers, and you will have to either use this recovery drive, or send the device back for repair to return to the original state.
The BIOS firmware in Legacy mode (including latest versions) has several bugs (inability to turn off or suspend the computer, kernel panics, etc). Use UEFI instead.
Prior to installation, download and install the latest firmware update from
Acer
under Windows. Older versions of the firmware can only boot from the (black) USB 2.0 port.
To recover the Windows key at a later stage, run:
$ hexdump -C /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM
Note that this key is tied to the particular laptop model and
unusable elsewhere
. See also
[1]
.
Create a recovery drive
A recovery drive can made with the preinstalled
Acer eRecovery Management
application. This requires a USB-attached flash drive or hard disk with at least 16 GB free space available, and presence of the
C:/OEM
directory. All present data on the target drive will be lost.
Choose the option
Create Factory Default Backup
, select the partition Windows is installed on, and click
start
. Remove the drive afterwards - booting from the device will now start the recovery software. See
[2]
for more information.
Booting
The Acer E3-111 does not have an optical drive.
Both
UEFI
and Legacy (BIOS) boot are supported. To switch modes, press
F2
at the boot splash screen to enter the EFI setup, then select the
Boot
tab. Alternatively, access the EFI setup by
rebooting in Windows
.
Disable
Secure Boot
, then follow the
installation guide
. An Ethernet connection is recommended, as the needed
wireless drivers
are not included in the installation medium.
Note
eMMC device names start with
/dev/mmcblk
instead of the typical
/dev/sda
.
Use the
rootwait
kernel parameter
since the integrated flash storage is not available instantly after kernel startup.
Due to limited RAM, it is recommended to create a
swap
partition of at least 2 GB in size.
A UEFI boot entry may not appear upon booting the device. The solution is to copy the
.efi
file to the location Windows uses. See
UEFI#UEFI boot loader does not show up in firmware menu
for details.
Configuration
Wireless
To use the Broadcom BCM43142 chipset is, install
broadcom-wl
, and load the module:
# modprobe wl
The system will now recognize the interface as
wlp2s0
. See
Broadcom wireless
and
Wireless
for details.
Touchpad
The E11 series include a
Precision Touchpad
, which supports a variety of touch gestures. To enable the touchpad, append the
i8042.nopnp
kernel parameter
. See
Touchpad Synaptics
for configuration details.
Power management
The factual accuracy of this article or section is disputed.
Reason:
The suggestion to use linux-lts was added in
2016
: we're in 2026 now. (Discuss in
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You may need to use the linux-lts kernel for full support.
Suspend and hibernate
Suspend and hibernate should work after following
Power management/Suspend and hibernate
.
Troubleshooting
GPU
See
Intel graphics#AccelMethod
.
Start up and shutdown freeze
If you have an issue where the computer freezes during start up and shutdown, requiring multiple reboots, try adding the following to
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
blacklist dw_dmac
blacklist dw_dmac_core
See also
[3]
[4]
See also
Disassembly Acer E11 (RAM, HDD upgrade)
Installing Linux on Acer E11-111 (ES1-111-C3NT)