HCL/Laptops/Asus
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Hardware Compatibility List - Laptops main page Acer - Apple - Asus - Compaq - Dell - Digital - ECS - Siemens-Fujitsu - Gateway - Hitachi - Higrade - HP - IBM/Lenovo - Medion - Micron - Mitac - Mitsubishi - NEC - Panasonic - Samsung - Sony - Toshiba - Zenith - Other |
Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) |
Full Systems |
Laptops - Desktops - Servers - Virtual Machines |
Components |
Video Cards - Sound Cards - Wired Net Adapters - Modems - Wireless Adapters - Monitors - Bluetooth Adapters - Printers - Scanners - TV Cards - Digital Cameras - Web Cameras - UPS - Floppy Drives - CD and DVD Writer/Readers - SCSI Adapters - Gadgets - SATA IDE Cards - Keyboards - Main Boards - RAID Controllers |
Model Version
Model Version: | Arch Linux Install CD Version: | Harware Support: | Remark: | |||||||
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Video: | Sound: | Ethernet: | Wireless: | Bluetooth: | Power Management: | Modem: | Other: | |||
W7S-B1B | Don't Panic | 3D with nvidia drivers | hda-intel | r8169 module, out of the box | intel 4965 works with iwlwifi | works out of the box | suspend works with pm-utils, hibernation is extremely unstable | untested | webcam works with uvc drivers, but it's mounted upside down | ACPI works with acpi4asus and acpid |
N80VN-X5 | 2009.02RC2 | 3D with nVidia drivers | hda-intel plus adding "options snd-hda-intel enable=1 model=g50v position_fix=0" to /etc/modprobe.conf or /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base | Out of box with r8169 module | out of box with ath9k | out of box | suspend and hibernate both work with pm-utils | no modem | webcam and card reader both work out of the box | ACPI works fine with the asus_laptop module found in kernels above 2.6.28.5 |
ASUS F8SN | 2009.08 | only tried with opensource NV drivers[got 1280x800 pixels default without xorg edit], 3d proprietary will probably work | hda-intel | ethernet works out of the box | intel 4965 works with iwlwifi | untested-but is recognized by kernel | untested-battery status can be detected and customization options exist | modem untested | Syntek Sonic webcam and Ricoh Cardreader work out of the box(might need to allow user mount privileges just as you would for other ext. drives) | Highly compatible with Arch Linux |