Acer Aspire Revo R3600 / R3610

The Acer Aspire Revo R3600 was the first nettop from Acer. Many people use it as a media player / media server. The Revo R3610 has the same hardware with a superior processor.

The Aspire Revo R3600 / R3610 has an Intel® Atom™ Processor with NVIDIA® ION™ graphics. With HDMI™ and VGA ports, it can play full 1080p HD video. It also has an eSATA port, six USB ports and multi-in-one card reader.

Hardware Details
The Revo R3600 and R3610 have the same hardware with different processors.

R3600 Processor Details
uname -a

cat /proc/cpuinfo

R3610 Processor Details
cat /proc/cpuinfo

cat /proc/cpuinfo

lspci (R3600 and R3610)
lspci

Choosing 32-bit or 64-bit
The Atom 230 and 330 processor both support x86 and x86_64. You may use either.

BIOS
Make sure that you enable AHCI - it tends to be disabled by default.

CFLAGS
See the Safe CFLAGS Guide for R3600 and  R3610 owners.

You may also be interested in this Intel Study, which recommends the following optimised CFLAGS. READ THE LINK BEFORE USING. CFLAGS="-march=core2 -O1 -msse3 -mfpmath=sse"

Video
NVIDIA® ION™ graphics

Articles for configuration Nvidia drivers:
 * Nvidia
 * Official gentoo guide

VDPAU
To play HD video, you will need to use VDPAU (Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix), which allows video programs to offload portions of the video decoding process and post-processing to the GPU.

In general, support for VDPAU will be built if you specify USE="vdpau", but most programs need to have it explicitly enabled in configuration files.

For example:

ALSA
cat /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf

Optional: Set HDMI as default audio out
cat /etc/asound.conf