Acer Aspire 4740G on OpenSUSE (Perfect Linux Machine)

As I said AS4740 works well with Linux but you still need to do some tweaking for full functionality.A lot of things you do with AS4530 is done with AS4740 to achieve full multimedia capability.Edit: As with the new release openSUSE there are some updates:1)Multimedia configuration is as shown below still the same manual work due to GPL.2)Edit Nvidia Driver Repo is up just add the server and install the drivers.3)You no longer need acpi_vendor commandline...issue...

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OpenSUSE on Aspire 4530

I took a switch to OpenSUSE because I could no longer stand the Brown and the fugly name Ubuntu.Before I finally chose OpenSUSE I was deciding whether to try Fedora as well. However UI of Fedora was rather similar to Ubuntu so I tried OpenSUSE instead.The Green Theme of OpenSUSE will match the Green Tag of Aspire 4530 (just below the keyboard) very well.  Owners of Aspire 4530 will know what I mean. LOLLets get started:First go to OpenSUSE to...

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Free Harddisk Cloning Solution

I am sure there are times you need to move all harddisk content over to another disk without the luxury of the time to reinstall. Here is the free Home-Based solution just by using a <1GB Thumbdrive you can image your harddisk without buying software like Norton Ghost or Acronis. Originally the software requires unetbootin to create a bootable thumbdrive but they have updated the tool to be able to self-create a bootable thumbdrive. Download EASEUS Disk Copy from EASEUS.Unzip dc.zip to a location. Then run to create the boot thumbdrive...

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New Stuff I discovered regarding temperature control

Recently I updated all my drivers again but soon I realized that my laptop was running hotter than usual.I mean really hot like 60 degrees on Idle.I soon narrowed it down to the latest chipset driver I install so I reverted to the old driver and surprisingly it went down.I took a look using HWMonitor and found that the latest chipset driver was working the processor really hard consuming 25watts constantly on idle.I downgraded the chipset driver to the previous version and the problem disappeared immediately.So the story of this lesson is do not...

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The 100MB Partition in Windows 7

As you might already know Windows 7 default installation creates a 100MB partition during Setup.The function is not really documented on the Internet, however reading this you should already know what it is for.The partition in question is the System Reserved Partition.So lets compare the Windows 7 installation with and without the 100MB System Reserve Partition.Firstly lets take a look at the root drive of the Windows 7 with the 100MB:Next lets...

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