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Acer Aspire 5742G
- Year introduced: 2011
Hardware
- CPU: Intel(R) i5-480M
- Ethernet: Broadcom Inc. NetLink BCM57780 Gigabit Ethernet
- Graphics: Intel(R) Ironlake Mobile - NVIDIA (Optimus) GeForce GT 540M 2GB
- Memory: 4096 MB
- Screen: 1366×768
- Storage: 640 GB HDD
- Wireless: Qualcomm Atheros AR9287 Wireless Network Adapter
Support overview
| Component | Status | Details | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Graphics | Graphical sessions | ✔ Intel, ✔ NVIDIA | project port, Discussion, Tutorial |
| Backlight (brightness) control | ✔ | ||
| Input devices | Keyboard backlight | — |
| Touchpad | ✔ | elantech (SynapticsTouchpad) |
| Touch screen | — | |
| Trackpoint | — |
| Media keys | Brightness keys | ✔ | via graphics/intel-backlight |
| Volume keys | ✔ | ||
| Network | Ethernet | ✔ | |
| Wi-Fi | ✔ | ||
| Other | Battery | ✔ | |
| Bluetooth | — | ||
| CD/DVD drive | ✔ | ||
| ExpressCard reader | — | ||
| Fan | — | ||
| Fingerprint reader | — | ||
| PC card reader | — | ||
| SD card reader |  | to test | |
| SIM card slot | — | ||
| Smart card reader | — | ||
| Suspend & resume | ✔ | ||
| Webcam | ✔ | webcamd(8) | |
| Ports | DisplayPort | — | |
| FireWire | — | ||
| HDMI | ✔ | ||
| Thunderbolt | — | ||
| USB | ✔ | ||
| VGA | ✔ | ||
| Sound | Headphone jack | ✔ | |
| Microphone jack | ✔ | ||
| Speakers | ✔ | ||
| Last update: 2019-10-22 13:21:27 UTC | |||
- Legend
- ✔ OK
Somewhat OK: requires additional tweaking or works worse than expected- Present but status unknown or untested
- ✘ Does not work
- nothing Not sure if present