Asus F7L

Authors

Janez Dolinar

Introduction

This notebook comes in wide varieties of configurations. It has complete 3.5kg with it's 6 cell battery.

This guide is intended to provide you details on how well this laptop works with Linux and which modules you need to configure. For details on how to actually install and configure the required modules have a look at our guides section for distribution specific instructions.

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Specifications

Name	Asus F7L - 7S090
Processor	Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU T2390
Screen	17“ @ 1440×900
RAM	2GB
HDD	250GB
Optical Drive	TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-L632H
Graphics	Intel GMA 3100
Network	10/100/1000 Ethernet, Atheros Wireless, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR
Other	4 + 1 USB 2.0, 1x Firewire, VGA-out, TV-out, 1.3M Webcam, MMC + XD reader

Linux Compatibility

Device	Compatibility	Comments
Processor	Yes
Screen	Yes	Brightness control works
HDD	Yes	Be sure to include -B 255 command in your hdparm, otherwise your drive will be heading to death the fast track!
Optical Drive	Yes
Graphics	Partialy	3D applications like Google Earth and Stellarium crash
Sound	Yes	Audio-out jack leaves speakers on while a jack is plugged in
Ethernet	Yes
Wireless	Yes	Works OK in Ubuntu
Bluetooth	Yes
Modem	Not Tested
USB	Yes
Firewire	Yes
Card Reader	Yes	XD now has supporting drivers
ExpressCard Slot	Not Tested
Webcam	Partial	Picture is upside down yet nice quality

Notes

Problems with Shift-PgUp, Shift-PgDown as they are on numeric keypads but that can be fixed using custom keymaps. Everything was tested in 64bit Gentoo with kernel 2.6.27-r4 or newer.

Problems still persist when using Ubuntu 10

Summary

Discussion

Agilis, 2014/03/21 22:29

Monitor is a bit bad, resolution does not live up to real quality when editing photos, but with 12.04LTS never any problems whatsoever. All worked straight from the set-up.

Janez Dolinar, 2009/04/13 08:40

Change: bug in the docs - asus-laptop brightness works flawless and devices (WiFi & Bluetooth) can be toggled without problems with asus-laptop module. If at all possible blacklist asus-acpi module.

Xavier, 2008/12/29 22:38

wifi has some difficulties with WPA , need to force several times connection to get it work after reboot/ works great after that problem
dual screen is working but not really easy to handle, ubuntu tools only permit clone or extented, clone 2nd screen is not good with position too much on left, extended got the taskbar on second screen instead of 1st one

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