openSUSE 10.2 on Acer Aspire 1681 WMLi

Installation is trouble free. Some things to note are:

1. openSUSE has Xorg V7.2. and the latest video drivers from ATI only support 7.1, if you want 3D acceleration (ie XGL), you will need to follow the instructions on this page: http://en.opensuse.org/ATI_Driver (or wait for ATI to update their driver).
   
2. This laptop has a buggy DSDT (battery indication will be broken) but can be fixed as follows:
   

• Download the fixed and compiled DSDT file (only use this file on an Aspire 1681WMLi) from here:DSDT.aml and place in /etc/acpi/
• Update /etc/sysconfig/kernel with the path to the DSDT file:
  ACPI_DSDT="/etc/acpi/DSDT.aml"
• Run: mkinitrd and Reboot.

If you have a similar model (but not identical) follow the instructions here, to create your own DSDT file (that's how I created it). Note that you don't need to recompile the kernel to get battery indication working, as described on that page.