Hello all, I am back in the country breifly and intend taking my machine to the "fixit" meeting on Saturday with the hope of gaining more a more functional machine. The purpose of this email is to give some prior warning to anyone who may be going to help Acer 500x inspire laptop amd64 I have made some attempts to get help on irc but every time I get someone who seems to knowledge the sever reset or some other drama occured. Broadcom bcm43xx air force one Wlan SiS grapics VCL and Totem-xine dvd players Wish list: 1 Get the wlan up and operational.. Have tried a couple of things and am now stuck after blacklisting the bcm and not being able to reverse the command. 2 Would like some sort of graphics accelleration, the Sis card is not very linux freindly 3 Able to play dvd's I have done a number of installs plus added plugins but still no dvd playback Totem reports that I may not have "libreaddvdcss2" I did add this but unsure of if it is working as the update is highly experimental. 4 Some sort of emulator so that I can play around with some MS programs. If you feel you can help I would really appreciatte it. I am available off list if you like. Regards John