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Asus G75VW
Introduction
This is a compatibility guide to running Linux with the Asus G75VW laptop. If you have the Asus G75VW and are running Linux on it please consider editing this page or adding a comment below with your compatibility details. By contributing you will help other people running this laptop or trying to make a decision on whether to buy it or not.
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Specifications
For full specifications see the Asus G75VW specifications page.
| Name | Asus G75VW |
| Processor | Intel Core i7 3720QM Processor Intel Core i7 3610QM Processor |
| Screen | 17.3” 1600×900 Widescreen 17.3” 1920×1080 Widescreen 17.3” 1920×1080 3D Widescreen |
| RAM | Up to 16GB |
| HDD | up to 1TB |
| Optical Drive | DVD+-RW Blu-ray Blu-ray-RW |
| Graphics | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M/670M |
| Network | 10/100/1000 Ethernet Integrated 802.11 b/g/n |
Linux Compatibility
| Device | Compatibility | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Processor | Out of Box | |
| Screen | Out of Box | Cannot adjust brightness |
| HDD | Out of Box | |
| Optical Drive (DVD/RW) | Out of Box | |
| Optical Drive (Blu Ray) | Not Tested | |
| Graphics Chip | Needs NVidia Driver; see below | |
| VGA Out | Out of Box | With NVidia Twinview; use nvidia-settings to configure |
| HDMI Out | Out of Box | nvidia proprietary driver causes flickering; use Nouveau |
| DisplayPort | Not Tested | |
| Speakers | Out of Box | Stereo speakers, integrated subwoofer is not working (2.1) |
| Built-in Microphone | Out of Box | |
| Headphone Jack | Out of Box | (Both AUX and optical out tested and functional) |
| Microphone Jack | Out of Box | Make sure to increase capture levels in alsamixer |
| Ethernet | Out of Box | |
| Wireless | Out of Box | |
| Bluetooth | Out of Box | |
| USB | Out of Box | |
| Card Reader | Out of Box | Appears as USB card reader when card is inserted |
| Webcam | Out of Box | Standard USB Video class (uvcvideo) |
| Touchpad | Out of Box | |
| Keyboard | Most hotkeys do not work: see notes below | |
| Suspend/Resume | Out of Box* | *Keyboard backlight turns does not turn on after resume |
Notes
2012-07-08 Matt Svoboda - using Asus G75VW-AS71
Laptop is mostly usable with the following exceptions:
1. Display issues
To get native resolution / hardware acceleration on Ubuntu 12.04, you'll have to download and manually install the Linux x86_64 driver from NVIDIA's website. Installing is a bit of a headache - you'll have to open a console, stop the display manager, and run the installer with root permissions, and since it patches the kernel, you'll need to repeat the process after every kernel update. It gives an error about the pre-install script failing, but proceeding with the installation worked for me.
The drivers are now available in “Additional Drivers”. These Drivers are proprietary and seem to be the drivers from NVIDIA's website. It is quite simple to install them this way.
One noticeable bug with the driver: with the GTX 660M, the latest driver (295.59) seems to have an issue in full-screen video where there is a horizontal “seam” in the middle where the video doesn't appear to sync up properly (only noticeable when there's lots of movement on screen); I have not found a fix for this.
!!!!!NEW FIX!!!!:
It worked great for me:
Please type in to console and run it, it updates all new Nvidia drives from repository:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current
2. Keyboard issues
Most of the hotkeys at the top of the keyboard do not work, and there is no workaround. The following hotkeys *do* work when using the fn key:
- Instant sleep (F1)
- Enable/Disable wireless toggle (F2)
- Toggle display on/off (F7) - sometimes there's a delay
- Toggle keyboard backlight in 3 stage (F3/F4)
Unable to adjust brightness of display, the keyboard backlight is functional.
2012-08-06 conroe64 - using Asus G75VW-NS71, 670M graphics card
I was able to adjust the brightness of the display by downloading and installing the nvidiabl driver, here: https://github.com/guillaumezin/nvidiabl
It was somewhat difficult to get working, though, see http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fbdev/msg03993.html for a problem I ran into.
After installing this driver, and running “modprobe nvidiabl”, you can run “dmesg” to see a min, max value. To adjust the backlight, run:
“echo <value> | sudo tee -a /sys/class/backlight/nvidia_backlight/brightness”
Discussion
Never posted here before-
Just to put this out there to you guys
in KUBUNTU 13.04, in order to get the backlight brightness working, I had to change xorg.conf, but NOT GRUB. changing grub caused errors and i had to fix it from recovery terminal
(also at one point i deleted xorg.conf entirely and ran without it and everything ran just dandy, except for no brightness controls)
1. remove xorg.conf (renaming works)
2. run nvidia-xconfig and re-generate a new xorg.conf
3. change the device section so it looks like this-
[code]
Section “Device”
EndSection
[/code]
and if you're wondering, my grub looks like-
[code]
GRUB_DEFAULT=0
#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT=3
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=””
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=””
[/code]
(note i have it set to not show any splash on load, just the text)
this has the slider for power options working fine
(Fn keys still do nothing though)
Just did a sleep and back to work (fn+f1), and that causes the fn keys to work, however the keyboard brightness goes to zero and wont light back up
I have a G75VW-DH72 that I have been running Arch Linux on. I tried the proprietary nvidia driver (back in December 2012) and found that the HDMI and VGA outputs suffered from occasional black flickering, and maybe some other problems. Switching to the open source nouveau driver fixed that problem, and nouveau seemed be OK for a while. Recently though, I think nouveau has been crashing a lot. The reason that I think nouveau is crashing is because I will be in Gnome 3 and then suddenly the graphics will just entirely freeze, or the graphics will kind of keep working but big rectangles of various X windows will start displaying the wrong thing. Sometimes I am able to fix the problem by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F2 and running systemctl stop gdm and systemctl start gdm. Recently, Linux has been crashing in this way every hour or two.
I like to give presentations from Linux, so I need the HDMI output to be good and I need the system to be reliable (not crash). Has anyone else encountered either of these problems and found a solution?
NEW about LCD backlight on G75VW:
With latest BIOS @ latest kernel
after a suspend & back to work
/suspend (fn+F1) and back to work/
Work well….
Brightness settings work perfectly after installing the latest version of nvidiabl and bios 223 but the fn keys still dont work at all. The other methodes not working anymore. I can change the brightness using the slider in system settings and by command line but the keys are not working still.
It's been mentioned here already, but I'm going to repeat it for emphasis:
Before installing Ubuntu on an Asus G75V, go into your BIOS settings (by hitting F2 immediately after power-on) and set “Launch CSM” to “Enabled”.
I couldn't get graphics to work in the Ubuntu LiveCD at all until I changed that setting. After turning on CSM, it's all been smooth sailing. (And I wish I'd read this comment thread a little more carefully before I spent twelve hours figuring out what David Grayson already posted two months ago…)
I'm using a pre-release build of Ubuntu 13.04, with nvidia-current. It's working great so far.
OK, to make the external subwoofer work edit/create
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.confand add these option:options snd-hda-intel model=asus-mode4Didn't work for me. Did it for anybody?
It worked for me. I don't have any audio controls for the subwoofer, but it works.
Im just going to put this out there. I have a newer G75VW and if you can get past the ubuntu eye candy and fear of a command line, look into Gentoo. You can compile a linux system specifically for your hardware. Tons of documentation on it as well. Compiling on this thing with 16G of ram and an i7, really doesnt take long at all. I would really recomend looking into it since most laptops out there are using onboard graphics, even though most of them have nvidia stickers on them, theyre still soddered to the motherboard. So finding support for new hardware, isnt easy for laptops using PCIe. Also, if your planning on dual booting windows 8, the best way to do so.. is format your entire HDD. Download 7 if you really need windows and use that, you might even want to change the bios settings as it will most likely help you out a lot. Oh yeah, and that ubuntu your installing comes preloaded with some nice tracking software, spyware etc.
Guys, after a long battle I was able to install Ubuntu 12.10 on my Asus G75 Notebook, making a triple boot alongside with Windows 7 and 8. Now I'm confronting another issue. When I update the system, and restart, the screen is completely black and I can hear the sound of the login home screen, and then I got an error related to GPU. I thought that the update of the video driver would resolve the problem, but it didn't. Please, if anyone has the same issue, or know how to fix it, I need some help.
Thanks in advance.
Good day Roland,
Try the UBUNTU Bottrepair.
It helped for me to set the Win7 & Ubuntu 12.10 in the right way.
It botts UEFI as well.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair
Before that
Just set up your BIOS so that it boots your Ubuntu disc instead of your Windows disc.
May be it solves your problem without bootrepair.
If the F3 and F4 hotkeys don't work, you can try to install the g73-keyboard-backlight-sh script : https://github.com/ktoso/g73-keyboard-backlight-sh/
That works for me on openSUSE 12.2 with kernel 3.4.11-2.16-desktop x86_64 and Nvidia driver 310.19.
I'm not sure on other distro's, but i know that when i buckled and used debian-sources with blacklisted nouvearu before compiling the kernel, installing xorg-x11 it stuck in the 318.10 binary nvidia drivers without a complaint.
Ok the suspend /F1/ does the trick as well.
If you was done this before:
1) Add the line Option “registryDwords” “EnableBrightnessControl=1” in the appropriate Device section of the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.
2) Do sudo pico /etc/default/grub and add acpi_osi=Linux and acpi_backlight=vendor to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT variable. Press Ctrl+O to save.
3) Run sudo update-grub to rebuild grub.cfg.
4) Reboot.
After suspend and back the F5/F6 works well.
It seem it is a BIOS problem.
In Windows 7 if some people do suspend then they
stick with the same problem about F5/F6.
http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?21485-G75VW-Backlit-Keyboard-Question
David Grayson, 2012/12/02 22:15
Thanks Robert! Your instructions basically worked for me except that I am using the nvidia driver (downloaded from nvidia.com) so I don't have a `Section “Device”` that looks like yours. Instead, I just added the EnableBrightnessControl line to the appropriate existing section.
Here is what I did to get the backlight working:
1) Add the line Option “registryDwords” “EnableBrightnessControl=1” in the appropriate Device section of the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.
2) Do sudo pico /etc/default/grub and add acpi_osi=Linux and acpi_backlight=vendor to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT variable. Press Ctrl+O to save.
3) Run sudo update-grub to rebuild grub.cfg.
4) Reboot.
I still have two issues: I have to press the brightness hotkey twice before it registers; every other keypress is ignored. When the key does have an effect, it adjusts the brightness in increments of 2 unless a menu happens to be open, in which case it adjusts it by 1.
The nvidiabl thing did not work for me at all.
I was do the same as abowe. Then I had to leaw my g75VW and closed the lid.
I come back after a while then I opened the lid and then the backlight was working with F5/F6 as it should be…
Only the onscreen display not showing…
I tried again with lid closing and after a while open it and it still working..
Hope it's helps.
After installing nvidiabl I can confirm that brightness and lock setting are working perfectly along with automatic brightness. The only things that are not working are the fn f4 & f5 keys and the subwoofer.
correction fn f5 & f6 keys
Brightness not working on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with Nvidia 304 driver
- fn F5-F6 do nothing
- Unity System Settings - Brightness and Lock do nothing
What I try
- default install (not working)
- grub acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor (not working)
- xorg.conf Option “registryDwords” “EnableBrightnessControl=1” (not working)
- combination of above not working as well
However, fn F5-F6 works in Grub Menu, but not work once in GDM or Ubuntu login screen (and desktop)
I was do the same as above. Then I had to leave my g75VW and closed the lid.
I come back after a while then I opened the lid and then the backlight was working with F5/F6 as it should be…
Only the onscreen display not showing…
I tried again with lid closing and after a while open it and it still working..
Hope it's helps.
@krnkris
So it works in your case, if I may know, which Linux Distro are you using ? and the Nvidia driver version ? and if possible kernel version.
On my case:
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Nvidia 304.43
Kernel 3.2.0-34-generic
the above is not working.
On my case:
Ubuntu 12.10 LTS and Nvidia 310.14
Kernel 3.5.0-21-generic
the above is working.
I installed nvidiabl and I am able to change the brightness using command line but the fn keys arenot detedcted still. Is there any solution to this. I am also not able to detect the key's id so as to set the values manually through a script. Any help would be useful.
Hi guys, I bought an Asus g75 laptop a couple months ago. I installed win7 and win8, but for the love of god I can't install Linux. I downloaded the iso and burn it, I boot from the optical drive, got a purple screen where I have all the functions of the F's keys and then comes a black screen which stands forever. Could someone tell me how to install Ubuntu on the g75vw series…
Thanks in advance…
Roland, I got around that kind of problem by going into the EFI settings (press F2 repeatedly while booting up) and enabling CSM (Compatibility Support Module). You should try that. The Ubuntu installer should be running at the native resolution (1920×1080), tell you how low your battery is, and successfully connect to WiFi if you do that.
Now I am struggling with flickering in the HDMI output and the backlight.
David: Just got a g75vw-BHI7. Tried alot of things but could not boot ubuntu. I saw the csm setting but did not know what it did. Thank you for posting this as it allowed me to boot ubuntu and start installing.
thanks again
Gordon
The Optical Drive (Blu Ray) works for me - I can read CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray Discs. I've burned a linux-live-cd image to a DVD and it worked.
OK, I got brightness working (thanks to mdelfede) on my G75VW with Ubuntu 12.10 and Nvidia 304.50, but should also work with Ubuntu 12.04 and Nvidia 304.48:
First I added this to my /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Second I added this to my GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT (/etc/default/grub):
It should look something like this:
Now just update the grub and reboot:
And now, the keys FN + F5/F6 should work
Thanks Robert! Your instructions basically worked for me except that I am using the nvidia driver (downloaded from nvidia.com) so I don't have a `Section “Device”` that looks like yours. Instead, I just added the EnableBrightnessControl line to the appropriate existing section.
Here is what I did to get the backlight working:
1) Add the line Option “registryDwords” “EnableBrightnessControl=1” in the appropriate Device section of the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.
2) Do sudo pico /etc/default/grub and add acpi_osi=Linux and acpi_backlight=vendor to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT variable. Press Ctrl+O to save.
3) Run sudo update-grub to rebuild grub.cfg.
4) Reboot.
I still have two issues: I have to press the brightness hotkey twice before it registers; every other keypress is ignored. When the key does have an effect, it adjusts the brightness in increments of 2 unless a menu happens to be open, in which case it adjusts it by 1.
The nvidiabl thing did not work for me at all.
Hello
I also have a G75 and the nvidia drivers, but when i check my xorg.conf file, its empty
any ideas?
I actually had to run nvidia-xconfig, which created the conf file, and followed the above instructions, and now the hotkeys change the value of the slider in the brightness applet, but that didn't work in the first place so the screen remains unchanged :P
OK.
Try to suspend (fn+F1) and back to work, or close the lid for a while and back to work, then it should work.
That did the trick!
Thanks a million!
It's nice to have a companies all the way…
I had experience ubuntu from 11.04 and good… but after 11.10+12.04+12.10… always feeling bad and bad…
installed 12.10 beta 2 on G75VW both the same…
It's really take time to boot and system is so so slow… even install the drivers you can found… the same…
Is that same with you???
I'm trying new released I downloaded today… Hope it will work…
All keybord hotkeys work for me (I only had to fix the problem with the backgroundlight; I think all other hotkeys started working after a kernel update).
Someone managed to make the internal subwoofer work with the VIA VT1802?
I tried with “options snd-hda-intel model=auto” in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and “default-sample-channels = 6” in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf but nothing has changed…
I'm on Ubuntu 12.10 beta2
suspend-to-ram was flaky and would sometimes not resume properly until I upgraded to kernel 3.4.5, but I fixed this by upgrading to kernel 3.4.5 (was using 3.0.7 before). As far as suspend-to-disk, for some reason, TuxOnIce would hang during suspend, but I got it working using uswsusp and kernel 3.5.3.
if anyone figures out how to make the subwoofer work will you let me know at _unknow_@hotmail.ca
thx
Metal
if anyone figures out how to make the subwoofer work will you let me know at _unknow_@hotmail.ca
thx
Metal
Tips from the last two months with a G75. and working NVIDIA drivers and how to workaround kms / nouveau:
subwoofer fail = you didnt download drivers / codecs most likely, and or your chosen player isnt compatable. Rythmbox with alsa use flags works fine for mine. as for Nvidia drivers and xorg files.. im not going to get technicall but listen, im using 313.18 drivers and theyre wonderfull. I'm also not nor would i ever use ubuntu and its connical spyware. I'm running funtoo with the 3.2.35 debian sources kernel as my stable os on my intel 520 SSD (128G). If you cant get the new drivers to work, blacklist nouveau drivers in /etc/modprobe.d/ and either install them after stoping x (/etc/X11/xdm stop from tty2 i believe) that doesnt work? then install a new kernel once you blacklisted the nouveau drivers, then use the old X -configure or xorg -configure NOTE! this will give you a file, if your using root it will be ~/.xorg.conf.new .. so cp ~/.xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf THEN run nvidia-xconfig. Look into pcmcia utils also, i think there is a binary distro way to use it (kernel module hotpluging). good luck, and btw, the nvidia drivers i cannot promise will be friently with ubuntu or w/e your using, though i am using a binary debian kernel and its fine so. as for the backlight keyboard.. ive no idea, i dont look at the damn thing and the light would more then likely get on my nervs and bother my eyes =/ ohhhh yeah, and after you install these drivers, nvidia-settings will let you change brightness, vibrance all that stuff. aka i can attest the driver i listed is in fact stable and fully functioning.
The card reader also works; it appears as a standard USB card reader, not as a PCI device like some laptops.
Thanks for suggesting nvidiabl, it works great.
I can verify that the webcam works at full resolution, using cheese (http://projects.gnome.org/cheese/). VGA out also works with NVidia TwinView.