Acer

Aspire V5-471

notebook

amd64

not-specified

yes

not-specified

2012

trisquel_6_0

B-gold A-platinum

3.2, 3.4, 3.9.0 3.9.0, 3.11

Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller

yes_with_3D

Atheros Communications Inc. AR9462 Wireless Network Adapter

yes

ID 04f2:b335 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd

yes

The
wifi device had issues with kernel versions 3.2 and 3.4, which are the
only two other versions tested. It could connect, but the connection was
lost frequently. This issue is fixed in version 3.9 (it may have been
fixed in another version between 3.4 and 3.9, but I did not test those,
so I don't know for sure).

[p]
For kernel versions from 3.7 to at least 3.9, make sure to build the
modules for the webcam and wifi devices. When running make menuconfig,
check the following:[/p]

[p]
Device Drivers --> Multimedia Support --> [list][*]Cameras/video grabbers support[/*][/list][/p]

[p]
Device Drivers --> Multimedia Support --> Media USB Adapters
--> USB Video Class (UVC) --> [list][*] UVC input events
device support[/*][/list][/p]

[p]
Device Drivers --> Network device support --> Wireless LAN
--> Atheros Wireless Cards --> Atheros 802.11n wireless cards
support
--> [list]
[*] Atheros ath9k PCI/PCIe bus support[/*]
[*] Atheros ath9k AHB bus support[/*]
[*] Atheros ath9k rate control[/*]
[/list][/p]

[p]
There was an issue of not being able to shut down. When shutting down,
the system would restart itself. Here's a fix I found on a blog
(http://www.pbehnke.com/main/node/11):

[enum]
[*] Create an init script in /etc/init.d (Example: create a file named
/etc/init.d/haltusbpower)[/*]
[*] Put the following in the script:
[code]#! /bin/bash
#
# haltusbpower init script
#
# chkconfig: 345 99 20
# description: A script to act as a workaround for the bug in the
runtime power management module, which causes my acer aspire v5-571
laptop to restart after shutting down.
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: haltusbpower
# Default-Stop: 0 1 3 5
# Short-Description: Halt USB Powersave mode
# Description: A script to halt usb power control.
### END INIT INFO

# Source function library.
. /etc/init.d/functions

# Bus list for the runtime power management module.
buslist="usb"

# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
start)
echo "USB bug fix active"
#no-op on startup
;;
stop)
echo "Turning off USB Power Control"
for bus in $buslist; do
for i in /sys/bus/$bus/devices/*/power/control; do
echo on > $i
done
done
;;
*)
echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/haltusbpower {start|stop}"
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0[/code][/*][/p]
[*] Create a symbolic link in /etc/rc0.d to the script you created in
the previous step. [p]Example:
[code]ln -s /etc/init.d/haltusbpower
/etc/rc0.d/haltusbpower[/code][/*][/p]
[/enum]

One To fix the issue remains: I cannot change of not having control over the backlight brightness. backlight, add the following to the kernel parameters:
[code]acpi_backlight=vendor[/code]

The kernel parameters can be edited in the file /etc/default/grub. Append acpi_backlight=vendor to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT. Then run sudo update-grub.