Comments on: Acer Aspire 4315 Laptop

By: Andrew D.

Andrew D. — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 03:18:43 +0000

Way back when, I also bought an Acer Aspire 4315 Laptop (from Dick Smith, with Ubuntu 7.10 aka Gutsy Gibbon). I upgraded to 2GB RAM and eventually solved most of the issues (using updates and driver/kernel fixes).

I have since switched to Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex (eg. 8.10). After a clean install it behaves the way it should have from the start. I am left to ponder the original effort by Acer.

Most of the fixes were introduced in 8.04 LPIA (Hardy Heron, low-power Intel-architecture), but were never back-ported to any Gutsy or the other Hardy versions.

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 07:45:49 +0000

Hi, I don’t know how I missed this comment from Dom about it getting hot. My Aspire 4315 runs warm, But then most notebooks do run warm to hot. As long as the vents are clear there should be no problem.

I read a thread somewhere not long ago about cooling pads. And while they can be a good idea, the hype is sometimes overrated. Notebooks naturally run warmer. The thread I was reading stated, that as long as the vents were not blocked or covered up there should be no problem with over heating. Common sense would prevail as far as heat goes, If the air is hot, the notebook could get hotter than normal, but in your average environment, temperatures from any notebook should be ok even if it seems hot.

By: SUNA ..HELP PLZ

SUNA ..HELP PLZ — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:20:49 +0000

Hii Plz help i got the same Unit but my internet isnt workingg

i made it xp
and
i tryed putting Modem Lite but i dont know how to install that or watever ?

also i got wireless in it now which is good but i cant get in my modem dno y.

plz reply thx

By: Dom

Dom — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:21:06 +0000

Hey,
I am running ubuntu hardy on the same laptop I got since Oct 2008.
Is yours getting too hot on the back too ? I have some suspicions with this acer stuff

By: David Baker

David Baker — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:37:24 +0000

Hi,
I have had my Acer 4315 going through the alpha and beta testing of Ubuntu 8.10 for about 4-5 weeks and seven kernel updates.
Network drivers for both ethernet and wireless are part of the standard install.(no NDIS wrapper required).
Network manager seems to be working quite well, at least with WPA wireless connections as well as the ethernet .Hot plugging a Netgear WG111v2 USB interface works and announces it is connected – just the way it should. Still not sure about internal wireless giving “full speed” all the time – as this may be an issue with my SpeedStream router.
I started installation by using GPARTED to set up partitions first.

I would not try to update from the ACER installed UBUNTU

Still testing USB hardware – more to follow.

Looking good so far

regards David

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:43:19 +0000

Hi Yuni,
What operating system are you running on it. You may not have the correct codec’s installed. If you’re using Ubuntu, you may need to install ubuntu-restricted-extras

This can be done from a shell prompt with sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

hth.

By: YUNI

YUNI — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:08:43 +0000

hello kim!
I bought the same notebook as you and im quite satisfied with it.. anyway the thing that dont impress me about this laptop is that i cant seem to play videos here. could you tell me how? thanks..

By: Lily

Lily — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:19:07 +0000

Here is the link I found LAN and wireless drivers which works.

http://www.acer.com.cn/driver/check_whole.asp?a=d32&sort=notebook&product=AS4315&path=WinXP

I am still having problem with USB drivers, audio sounds…

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:13:49 +0000

For those of you looking for Windows XP drivers for the Acer Aspire 4315 a list of drivers can be found on my entry Looking Through Windows at http://kimmy.blogit.co.nz/2008/08/31/looking-through-windows/

By: Huss

Huss — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:17:28 +0000

or Kimberly…sorry…thanks for the link!

By: Huss

Huss — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:16:36 +0000

Alex…that helps me install the modem…Thanks alot!

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:44:13 +0000

Hi Karl. I managed to get the modem on my partners 4315 using the driver from http://www.acerpanam.com/synapse/data/7117/documents/Modem_Lite-on_v.2.1.77.9.zip

Hope that helps.

By: AlexM

AlexM — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 11:44:33 +0000

Your blog is interesting!

Keep up the good work!

By: Karl

Karl — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:05:01 +0000

Hi Kim

I have also bought the same unit…
i decided to run WINDOWS XP on this machine…
all is going well…..

except I can’t get the Internet to go….
not sure what sort of MODEM is in this machine.
Any ideas how i can fix this

Thanks
Karl

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:19:19 +0000

Hi Karl,

From what I can gather the modem is incorporated into the sound card. I installed Windows XP onto my partners aspire 4315 and managed to get all the drivers running, though I’m not sure if I got the correct sound card drivers. After installing the sound card drivers, sound works and XP detected the modem but I don’t seem to have the driver for the modem. I never looked into to it any further, as ours are generally on a wireless lan.