Laptop Asus A6TC Debian Linux Configuration HowTo
last modification: 27-09-2007
OS
Debian Sid i386. Plans: amd64 architecture. It depends on lack of packages (flash player or sth.).
I run also Gentoo amd64 multilib since 2 days ;).
Kernel
Debian: I use 2.6.22.5 kerel version without any patches. You can download my current minimalistic .config here. Recompilation takes about 12 minutes. Plans: suspend2 patch.
Gentoo amd64 config .
Hardware
My lspic output. Specification table:
| Type | Name | Status |
|---|---|---|
| CPU | AMD Turion64 1,6 GHz X2 | works |
| Motherboard | ASUSTek A6T aka nVidia C51 | works |
| GPU | nVidia GeForce Go 7300 | works |
| Display | ASUSTek LCD 1280×800 | works |
| Hard Disk Drive | 100 GB Fujitsu MHV2100AH PL or Seagate Momentus 5400.2 or Hitachi Travelstar 5K100 | works |
| Optical Disk Drive | TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-L632D | works |
| Ethernet | Realtek RTL8111/8168B | works |
| Wireless | Broadcom BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g | works |
| Sound | nVidia MCP51 HDA | works |
| USB | nVidia MCP51 | works |
| PCMCIA | Ricoh RL5c476 Ⅱ | works |
| FireWire (IEEE 1394) | Ricoh R5C552 | works |
| Card Reader | Ricoh SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Card Reader | only SD (?) |
| Infrared | Unknown SIR chip | does not work |
| Bluetooth | ASUSTek USB | works |
| Modem | nVidia Si3054 | works |
| Webcam | Syntek DC-1125 | works |
| Touchpad | Synaptics-compatible | works |
CPU
I use cpufreqd daemon to change CPU scaling governor. My /etc/cpufreqd.conf file. I have performance module compiled into kernel, so i add other scaling modules to /etc/modules and remove don't needed modules in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.
Motherboard
Remember to use the newest BIOS version, which prevents laptop from overheating. You can download flash rom from ASUStek website.GPU
Present nvidia drivers from Debian Sid repository are broken! That version (100.14.11-1) freezes system. The best way is to wait for new drivers from nvidia using the last beta drivers (ie. these ) for i386 linux.Ethernet
There was a problem with lan card, but everything is ok with r8169 kernel module right now.Wireless
I think bcm43xx kernel module doesn't work because of signal stregth problems so i decided to use ndiswrapper. Works great!Webcam
People from syntekdriver team did a great job. Now we can watch our face even in wengophone ;). Being serious - you should compile the newset checkout from svn and be happy to use well done driver.Thanks
Great Gentoo wiki about our notebook.
About me
nick: pietia
I'm a web developer. I prefer open source solutions like rails framework.
jid: pietia@bash.org.pl
My university: ICIS
My job: Rails agile web development , Web design