The wireless card can be turned off by a hardware-switch located at the right of the front edge. Be warned about touching that switch, though, as it is impossible to re-activate the card from the running system. That is possible only during the boot-phase.

The sole solution to this problem seems to physically de-activate the responsible pin on the card (e.g. instructions in German).

The acer_wmi kernel module would be responsible for such task, yet the hardware is not supported and writes so to the boot-screen. (The same holds for the modules acerhk and wistron_btns.) Therefore the module may well be black-listed by the blacklist boot-code.

The fan is notorious for spinning up unnecessarily and not seizing to spin. The following code in 'bootlocal.sh' loads the acerhdf module at boot such that the fan starts running at a temperature above 65C and stops below 60C. The sleep command may be necessary or not.

The touchpad works with two-finger scrolling out of the box. Due to its minuscule size, “middle-tap” (lower right corner) is quite hard to get right. Therefore I prefer to have two-finger tapping be recoginzed.

The following code placed in a file 'synaptics' under '~/.X.d/' does it. Some more options are commented out. The page on Synaptics in the Archlinux-Wiki provides more information about available configuration settings.