Acer Aspire 1310 Laptop Computer

Strange as it may seem it has been extremely difficult to install my preferred Ubuntu Linux Operating System, this laptop being destined for Morroco it was extremely important that it was installed with a Linux Open Source Operating System.

The systems that were tried include the following:

• Jaunty Jackalope 9.04 beta Desktop release
• Intrepid Ibex 8.10 Desktop
• LinuxMint 6 Felicia
• OpenSuSE Ver 11.1
• PCLinux 2009

The problem

After installing PCLinuxOS on an Acer 5051AWXMi laptop, the sound would disappear whenever I rebooted the computer.

This was strange behavior, as when ran it from the Live CD, it worked perfectly. Furthermore, if I ran the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Configurator in a terminal, (command = alsaconf), the sound would work yet again until the next time I rebooted the machine.

Clearly from the afore mentioned behavior, something wasn't happening during the boot sequence - part 1.