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This is a compatibility guide to running Linux with the Asus F6A laptop.
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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For full specifications see the Asus F6A specifications page.
| Name | Asus F6A |
| Processor | Intel Core 2 Duo or Intel Celeron |
| Screen | 13.3” WXGA Widescreen |
| RAM | 1GB to 4GB |
| HDD | 160GB to 320GB |
| Optical Drive | DVD+-RW |
| Graphics | Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X4500HD |
| Network | Ethernet, Intel 5100 802.11abg or AZWAVE NE771 802.11BG |
| Device | Compatibility | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Processor | Work | Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU T3200 @ 2.00GHz |
| Screen | Work | |
| HDD | Work | |
| Optical Drive | Work | |
| Graphics | Work | |
| Sound | Work | kernel 2.6.28 worked had some problems with default Fedora 10 kernel |
| Ethernet | Work | |
| Wireless | Work | |
| Bluetooth | Not Tested | |
| USB | Work | |
| Firewire | Not Tested | |
| Card Reader | Work | |
| ExpressCard Slot | Not Tested | |
| Fingerprint Reader | Not Tested | |
| Camera | Work |
You can enter any specific notes with running Linux on the Asus F6A here.
You can enter a summary of how well the Asus F6A works with Linux here.
Started with Fedora 10. Had no sound. Pulled in a 2.6.28 kernel from rawhide and sound worked. Hibernate/suspend worked. Backlight control was backwards. Could not get keyboard shortcuts to work.
Just installed gentoo. Had to re-compile kernel with CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO turned off to fix the backwards backlight control. I initially had problems with suspend, hibernate and backlight control not working. For some reason I had to re-emerge hal, dbus, libnotify and gnome-power-manager to get them to work. The keyboard hotkeys don't work as of yet. The webcam and media card slot work. From what I can tell, the webcam uses uvcvideo, wireless uses iwlagn, and ethernet uses e1000.
Discussion
I finally have the hotkeys working. It seems that prior to kernel 2.6.29, the hotkeys were reported through acpid and you needed to supply a script to handle the events. With kernel 2.6.29, the keyboard seems to be detected properly using hal, so everything just works now.
Also in the kernel config I am using ASUS_LAPTOP and not ACPI_ASUS. I also don't have BACKLIGHT_LCD_SUPPORT enabled in the kernel, but the brightness controls work properly. As of right now everything seems to be working the way it should.
Sorry for my english! :P
Tested with ubuntu 8.10, pre-build kernel 2.6.27, all functions except camera (need external drivers) and sound (need to modify /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf adding line: “option snd-hda-intel model=eeepc-ep20”)
Now installed ubuntu 9.04 beta, pre-build kernel 2.6.28, same sound problem (solved as in ubuntu 8.10) and have to fix the backwards backlight, probably turning off CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO (have to try yet)