Acer Aspire 1510

Modules to consider

• ACPI (battery monitoring does not seem to work)
• CPU frequency modules
• tg3 (BCM5788 is supported by the Broadcom Tigon3 device driver)
• nidiswrapper (BCM94306)
• pl2303 (Prolific 2303 Single Port Serial Driver)
• BCM203x USB driver
• SMB file system support
• usbnet (Multi-purpose USB Networking Framework http://www.linux-usb.org/usbnet)

CPU Freq. options

Test the different options if your hardware supports these...

  
  x x    <M>   /proc/cpufreq interface (deprecated)                         
  x x          Default CPUFreq governor (userspace)  --->
  x x    <M>   'performance' governor
  x x    <M>   'powersave' governor
  x x    ---   'userspace' governor for userspace frequency scaling
  x x    <M>   'ondemand' cpufreq policy governor (NEW)
  x x    [ ]   /proc/sys/cpu/ interface (2.4. / OLD) (NEW)
  x x    <*>   CPU frequency table helpers (NEW)
  x x    ---   CPUFreq processor drivers
  x x    <M> AMD Opteron/Athlon64 PowerNow!

Menuconfig

Processor type and features --->

  Symmetric multi-processing support - off
  Preemptible Kernel - off (for 64bit)
  IOMMU support - off
  Processor family (Generic-x86-64)  --->
    AMD-Opteron/Athlon64 - on :)

Power management options --->

  ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) Support  --->
    xyz Extras - off
    others - on
    Debug Statements - on
  CPU Frequency scaling  --->
    ~details, see above!
      Default CPUFreq governor (userspace)

Bus options (PCI etc.) --->

  PCCARD (CardBus) support  --->
    PCCard (CardBus) support - on(M)
    CardBus yenta-compatible bridge support - on(M)

Device Drivers --->

  ~details, see above!
    Bluetooth subsystem support - on 
    USB Serial Converter support - on