Acer Aspire 1 A114-61 (acer-aspire1)

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Acer Aspire 1
Aspire 1 running GNOME
Aspire 1 running GNOME
Manufacturer Acer
Name Aspire 1
Codename aspire1
Released 2021
Category testing
Original software Windows
Original version 10
postmarketOS kernel mainline
Hardware
Chipset Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c Gen1 (SC7180)
CPU 2x Kryo 468 Gold + 6x Kryo 468 Silver
GPU Adreno 618
Display 1920x1080 IPS
Storage 64GB
Memory 4GB
Architecture aarch64
Unixbench Whet/Dhry score 5668.0
This device has been tested with postmarketOS, but its device package has not yet been added to the postmarketOS repositories.
This means that it cannot be selected in pmbootstrap.
Status: WIP, upstreaming basic support first.
Features
USB Networking
Unavailable
Flashing
Unavailable
Touchscreen
Unavailable
Display
Works
WiFi
Works
FDE
Works
Mainline
Works
Battery
Works
3D Acceleration
Works
Audio
Partial
Bluetooth
Works
Camera
Works
GPS
Unavailable
Mobile data
Unavailable
SMS
Unavailable
Calls
Unavailable
USB OTG
Works
NFC
Unavailable
Sensors
Accelerometer
Unavailable
Magnetometer
Unavailable
Ambient Light
Unavailable
Proximity
Unavailable
Hall Effect
Barometer
Unavailable
Power Sensor
Unavailable
Misc
Camera Flash
Keyboard
Works
Touchpad
Works
USB-A
Works
HDMI/DP
Works
Ir TX
Unavailable
Ir RX
Unavailable
Stylus
Unavailable
Haptics
Ethernet
FOSS bootloader
Unavailable


Acer Aspire 1 is a low-end Windows on ARM laptop, based on Snapdragon 7c Gen1, a platform that has great mainline Linux support due to some Chromebooks sharing the same platform.

Variant differences

While the most common version of the device seems to be the "WiFi" variant, an "LTE" version with 8GB ram seem to also exist.

Contributors

  • travmurav

Users owning this device

Installation

Disabling UEFI Secure-Boot

This device uses the standard UEFI secure-boot. The initial configuration seem to contain the keys for some Linux distributors (i.e. Canonical or Debian) but for now it's probably easiest to just disable it.

Note that the following actions may cause Windows to fail decryption if the Bitlocker was enabled.

  1. Power on the device and press F2 to enter UEFI setup.
  2. Go to the Security tab and set the maintenance password. Write it down.
  3. Go to the Boot tab and disable the Secure Boot. This option is only available if the password is set.
  4. Go back to the Security tab and remove the password by changing it to the empty string.

Installing pmOS on an external storage

You should be able to perform sdcard installation with some usb-stick as the target. Note that the laptop has no SD slot.

Highly consider making a backup of the internal storage, it seems like the recovery media is not available for this laptop.

Installing pmOS on the internal eMMC

Icon WARNING: The bootloader chain of the device is located in the same eMMC as the OS, damaging internal partition layout may make the laptop into an unrecoverable brick.

TBD

Known Issues

  • Audio is only minimally implemented.
  • Hall/lid sensor is not enabled at this time.

See also