I recently bought an Acer Aspire V5-121.
Installation went smoothly. But on rebooting I found the following issues:
- Wifi did not work
- USB 3.0 did not work
- Touchpad did not work
Fix for Wifi:
In KDE Menu, type `driver`, to bring up the Additional Drivers link for installing Proprietary drivers. Choose to install the Broadcom STA wireless driver. On installing this driver and rebooting, USB 3.0 too started working.
For enabling Touchpad, all I needed was to press Ctrl-Fn-F7
Joel G Mathew, known in tech circles by the pseudonym Droidzone, is an opensource and programming enthusiast.
He is a full stack developer, whose favorite languages are currently Python and Vue.js. He is also fluent in Javascript, Flutter/Dart, Perl, PHP, SQL, C and bash shell scripting. He loves Linux, and can often be found tinkering with linux kernel code, and source code for GNU applications. He used to be an active developer on XDA forums, and his tinkered ROMS used to be very popular in the early 2000s.
His favorite pastime is grappling with GNU compilers, discovering newer Linux secrets, writing scripts, hacking roms, and programs (nothing illegal), reading, blogging. and testing out the latest gadgets.
When away from the tech world, Dr Joel G. Mathew is a practising ENT Surgeon, busy with surgeries and clinical practise.