

I made a backup of the Windows restore partition to a USB flash drive that I'll keep aside just in case. I ended up copying Window's bootmgfw.efi to EFI/Microsoft/bootmgfw.efi and installing rEFInd as bootmgfw.efi as described here. You can hit F-12 at boot and then select your Linux image but that's a pain. You can install a Linux EFI img and change the boot order with something like 'efibootmgr' and it will switch the boot I found that this laptop (in UEFI mode) is one that will only boot EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi. See here: Acer Aspire VN7-591G USB boot + SSD question Just a heads up. This has the added advantage of freeing up some more disk-space (256Gb is not *that* much). See: some similar issues on the acer support forum Dual-boot problemsĪfter messing around a bit, I just decided that it just wasn't worth the effort and I went with a Linux-only install.

The microphone input is not switched if a headset is plugged in.Īlso, I think the wireless range is a bit limited compared to other devices(?), maybe the driver sets the tx power too low? (just a feeling).Most of it is working quite nicely now, there are 2 problems remaining:

This page keeps track of what I've been doing on getting my laptop to work. 12 Upgrading to kernel 4.5 and Nvidia 352.
