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| Name | Asus F3E |
| Processor | Intel Core 2 Duo T7250 2.0GHz |
| Screen | 15.4” WXGA Widescreen |
| RAM | 1GB |
| HDD | 160GB |
| Optical Drive | DVD+-RW |
| Graphics | Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 |
| Network | Ethernet, Intel 4965 802.11abg, Bluetooth |
| Device | Compatibility | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Processor | Yes | |
| Screen | Yes | |
| HDD | Yes | |
| Optical Drive | Yes | |
| Graphics | Yes | |
| Sound | Yes | |
| Ethernet | Yes | |
| Wireless | Yes | Use the iwl4965 driver |
| Bluetooth | Yes | |
| 56K Modem | Not Tested | |
| USB | Yes | |
| Firewire | Not Tested | |
| Card Reader | Not Tested | |
| Camera | Yes |
The webcam works with the linux-uvc drver. However this driver is still beta and may not work properly with every configuration. You will need to install this driver manually as I don't believe any distribution includes this.
For some of the hardware in the Asus F3E you will need kernel version 2.6.22 or higher. Ubuntu 7.10 and Fedora 8 are good candidates for this laptop.
As long as you use a Linux distribution with at least kernel 2.6.22 you shouldn't have many problems with the F3E.
Discussion
Slow boot up on Hardy Heron
I installed Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron 32 bit on F3E. Upon system startup it slows down in the progress bar.
[ 18.429693] hub 7-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 18.429702] hub 7-0:1.0: 6 ports detected
[ 18.533619] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:08:01.0[A] → GSI 16 (level, low) → IRQ 16
[ 18.586347] ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[16] MMIO=[fe6ff800-fe6fffff] Max Packet=[2048] IR/IT contexts=[4/4]
[ 18.596223] ahci 0000:00:1f.2: version 3.0
[ 18.596257] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[B] → GSI 20 (level, low) → IRQ 22
[ 18.701084] usb 2-1: device not accepting address 2, error -71
[ 19.252227] usb 6-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
[ 19.385381] usb 6-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 19.475859] Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -7255903713 ns)
[ 19.479853] Time: hpet clocksource has been installed.
What is this “device not accepting… means”? Is that the reason for slow startup?
Thanks
No Ethernet Card??
hi
I have a problem with F3E, I have installed Backtrack 3 Final, but the ethernet card is not recognized the Ethernet Card is:Atheros L1 Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Controller
can u help me please??
Low LCD brightness & “whistling”
I bought ASUS F3E few days ago (here http://www.alza.cz/asus-f3e-ap367-d97902.htm). Installation was troublefree (Ubuntu 8.04 HH), but there was (and is) a problem with brigthness of my LCD. Is very low everytime the system starts. But there is more serious problem. In this article is said, that the graphics card is fully supported, but it seems to me like a little “lie” ;) My graphics card is “whistling” all the time and the problem with brightness should be (IMHO) caused by the graphics card. Drivers are up-to-date. Does anyone know what the problem is?
There is a question for ABcsix, if he does not have the same problem, 'cause I have the same HW like him.
Try the following:
sudo echo 0 > /sys/devices/platform/asus_laptop/ls_switch
If that works you can add that line (without the sudo at the start) into /etc/rc.local and leave a comment here if it works so I can add it to the wiki. I believe this issue was caused by a update to the acpi_asus module.
Sorry, don't know about the “whistling”.
Try to add acpi=off as kernel parameter and “whistling” disappears.
JKr
But this will turn off all power management on the laptop. It's not recommended.
Interesting comment
Thanks ABcsix on your very interesting comment that will be helpful for lots of people.
Same Laptop with Other Hardware
Hi.
I have an ASUS F3E , with some differences in Hardware.
I'll try to install Fedora Core 8 in the next days.
Adquired in Mar 2008: