Asus-laptop Support
Version 5 (Corentin Chary, 07/30/2009 10:56 am)
| 1 | 1 | Anonymous | h1. Asus-laptop Support |
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| 3 | 1 | Anonymous | This page describe how to provide useful informations in order to add support for your laptop in asus-laptop. |
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| 5 | 1 | Anonymous | h2. Kernel and Distribution |
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| 7 | 3 | Corentin Chary | The first thing to know is what kernel/distribution you are using. |
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| 9 | 3 | Corentin Chary | Use this command to find your kernel version: |
| 10 | 3 | Corentin Chary | <pre> |
| 11 | 3 | Corentin Chary | uname -r |
| 12 | 3 | Corentin Chary | </pre> |
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| 14 | 3 | Corentin Chary | h2. asus-laptop informations |
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| 16 | 3 | Corentin Chary | <pre> |
| 17 | 3 | Corentin Chary | dmesg | grep asus |
| 18 | 3 | Corentin Chary | cat /sys/devices/platform/asus-laptop/infos |
| 19 | 3 | Corentin Chary | </pre> |
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| 21 | 1 | Anonymous | h2. DSDT |
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| 23 | 3 | Corentin Chary | See [[Dumping_dsdt]] |
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| 25 | 2 | Anonymous | h2. wled and bled |
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| 27 | 5 | Corentin Chary | WLED and BLED are not handled like other, because in some models |
| 28 | 5 | Corentin Chary | they also control the WLAN/Bluetooth device. |
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| 30 | 5 | Corentin Chary | See [[WAPF and Leds]] |
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| 32 | 2 | Anonymous | h2. Hotkeys |
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| 34 | 4 | Corentin Chary | Run the following programs, and press one key at a time to see if the key generate an event. |
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| 36 | 4 | Corentin Chary | For X keys: |
| 37 | 4 | Corentin Chary | <pre> |
| 38 | 4 | Corentin Chary | xev | grep keycode |
| 39 | 4 | Corentin Chary | </pre> |
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| 41 | 4 | Corentin Chary | For ACPI events: |
| 42 | 4 | Corentin Chary | <pre> |
| 43 | 4 | Corentin Chary | acpi_listen |
| 44 | 4 | Corentin Chary | </pre> |
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| 46 | 4 | Corentin Chary | Note: if acpi_listen don't complain about acpid.sock, you can : |
| 47 | 4 | Corentin Chary | - install and run acpid |
| 48 | 4 | Corentin Chary | - run "strace -p $(pidof hald-addon-acpi)" instead (if you are using hal) |