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Acer W500 & #! v11

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http://crunchbang.org – I havent bothered to try 10, but for 11 it seems to work nicely. just i need to figure out how to remap the keys so that when im actually using tablet mode i can acess the menu.On top of that, i seem to have this with virtually every laptop ive used(and its not many) but i have no control over brightness.I screwed around with power management and it dims the screen slightly but overall no controls whatsoever, and thats the same for any other distro ive tried so far too so most likely its a kernel thing.on a side note i was blown away by the volume increase on this thing compared to windows ._. (HowTos)

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Submitted by bolly on 01/27/2013 – Made popular on 01/27/2013

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