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General information
Kernel and the system
ACPI (OK)
Suspend (OK)
PCMCIA/CardBus (OK)
Graphics (OK)
Touchpad (OK)
USB (OK)
CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive (OK)
Audio interface (OK)
IEEE 1394 (FireWire) (OK)
Parallel port (OK)
Infrared port (not tested)
Ethernet adapter (OK)
Wi-Fi adapter (OK)
Modem (OK)
Memory card (should be OK)
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General Information

Debian GNU/Linux

CPU: Intel Pentium M 1.5 GHz (Centrino)
Chipset: i855PM
Memory: 512 MB DDR RAM
Graphics: ATI Radeon Mobility 9600 (M10) 64mb VRAM
HDD: 60 GB
I/O ports: 4x USB 2.0, FireWire, IrDA (FIR), parallel, S-Video
PCMCIA/Cardbus: RICOH (Yenta-compatible) controller, one PCMCIA slot
Card reader: SD/MMC/MS
Modem: AC97 Softmodem
LAN: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5788 Gigabit Ethernet
WLAN: Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless LAN 2100
Audio: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 with line-out, microphone/line-in, built-in stereo speakers, built-in microphone.
CD: CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive
Mouse: Synaptics touchpad, 4 buttons
Display: 15.1"

http://www.asus.com

Kernel and the system

Debian GNU/Linux

Here

kernel config

ACPI

asus_acpi

this

ACPI4Linux

,-------[/etc/acpi/events/hotkey]
event=hotkey ATKD .*
action=/etc/acpi/hotkey.sh %e
`-------

,------[/etc/acpi/hotkey.sh]
#!/bin/bash
case "$3" in
# Mute button
00000032) /usr/bin/amixer set Master toggle
;;
# Volume up button
00000030) /usr/bin/amixer set Master 1+
;;
# Volume down button
00000031) /usr/bin/amixer set Master 1-
;;
# Rewind button
00000040) su - nion -c "/usr/bin/xmms -r"
;;
# Stop button
00000043) su - nion -c "/usr/bin/xmms -s"
;;
# Play/pause button
00000045) su - nion -c "/usr/bin/xmms -t"
;;
# Forward button
00000041) su - nion -c "/usr/bin/xmms -f"
;;
# CD-player ON/OFF button (I use it to eject the cdrom)
0000004c) eject cdrom
;;
# Mail button
00000050) su - nion -c "export DISPLAY=:0.0;xterm -fg white -bg black -e mutt &"
;;
# Browser button
00000051) su - nion -c "export DISPLAY=:0.0;/usr/bin/mozilla-firefox &"
;;
# WiFi button
0000005d) wlanup start
;;
*) logger "ACPI hotkey $3 is not defined"
;;
esac
`------

The button 0000005d calls the wlanup script which i have written. It looks like this:

,------[/usr/bin/wlanup]
#!/bin/sh
 ret=`lsmod | awk '{print $1}' | grep -c ipw2100`
 if [ $ret = "1" ] ; then
 then
  /sbin/modprobe -r ipw2100
  echo 0 > /proc/acpi/asus/wled
  route del default gw 192.168.1.1 dev eth1
  ifup eth0
  rm -f /etc/resolv.conf
  else
       cp /root/resolv.conf /etc/
       modprobe ipw2100
       echo 1 > /proc/acpi/asus/wled
       iwconfig eth1 power off
       iwconfig eth1 mode Managed
       iwconfig eth1 essid any
       ifconfig eth1 192.168.1.2
       route add default gw 192.168.1.1 dev eth1
       ifdown eth0

  fi
`------

This scripts start the wlan and turns on the led if you press the special button and turns of the led and stops your wlan interface if you press the button a second time.

acpi tool

http://softwaresuspend.sf.net

Another event is the lid event. It you close you laptop with a snap then the acpid will execute the specified script:

,--------[/etc/acpi/events/lm_lid]
  event=button[ /]lid
  action=/etc/acpi/lm_lid.sh %e
`------

The lm_lid.sh just executes 'echo "sleep" > /sys/power/state' which causes the notbook to go into suspend to ram if you close it with a snap.

Suspend

Software and suspend to RAM are working correclty now. The fglrx driver by ATI isn't a problem any longer. For suspend to disk you have to enable it in the Kernel configuration. I use the following scripts for suspending my system:

Suspend to disk:
,------[/etc/acpi/s4.sh]
#!/bin/bash
modprobe -r ipw2100
echo disk > /sys/power/state
`------

Suspend to RAM with ATI driver loaded (with 8.20.8 driver not needed anymore):

,------[/etc/acpi/s3.sh]
#!/bin/bash

down_wireless() {
    /sbin/ifdown wlan0
    pkill dhclient
    /sbin/modprobe -r ipw2100
}

save_state() {
    logger -t acpid "Saving state"
    down_wireless
    #/sbin/modprobe -r button
    /bin/sync
    vbetool vbestate save > /tmp/vbestate
    chvt 1
}

suspend_to_ram() {
    echo 3 > /proc/acpi/sleep
}

restore_state() {
    logger -t acpid "Restoring state"
    vbetool vbestate restore < /tmp/vbestate
    /sbin/hdparm -S2 /dev/hda
    /sbin/hwclock --hctosys
    #/sbin/modprobe button
    chvt 7
}

save_state
suspend_to_ram
restore_state
`------

Remember, this is not needed with 8.19.10 fglrx version.

You have to install the vbetool to make it work correctly. Or see the acpi section for an example which works too but without ATI driver used. Also there is I tell how to enable S3 by snapping down your notbook.

PCMCIA

PCMCIA works fine with the yenta_socket kernel module

Graphics

http://www.ati.com

Xorg.conf

Touchpad

synaptics driver

USB

USB works fine, tested with usb hard disk and usb stick. Use ehci and ohci kernel modules.

CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive

Absolutly no problems. System detects drive as an: hdc: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2512, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)

Audio interface

The audio device works fine with enabled ALSA in the kernel and with the snd-intel8x0 module.

IEEE 1394 (FireWire)

ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[00e018000318b060] is what dmesg detects. I think the firewire device works as you can see, but i havent got the special hardware to try.