Asus-laptop Supported Hardware

Matrix

In the table below, "Kill switch" designates the radio switch present at the front of some models to completely disable WLAN/Bluetooth.
The SFUN value can be obtained by doing cat /sys/devices/platform/asus-laptop/infos in a terminal.

Model LEDs WLAN Bluetooth Backlight LCD on/off Light sensor GPS Keyboard Backlight Kill switch HWRS SFUN
A6JC mled y y y y n/a n/a n/a 0x248f7
F3JC n/a y y y y n/a n/a n/a present 0x583 0xa18f7
M50Sv mled y y y y y n/a n/a
A6Tc mled y y y y n/a n/a n/a 0x20af7
G71GX mled tled y y y y n ? ? 0xa1af7
X50R n/a y y y y n/a n/a n/a 0x200f7
V1J mled wled y y y y n/a n/a n/a
V6V tled y y y y n/a n/a n/a
M50Vn tled mled wlan? y y y y y? n/a n/a present 0x1a38f7

Details

A6JC

N80VN

Dsdt: 1 (unknown bios version)

A6T

X50R

Detected as an F5 model, but works fine.
See Issue #8 for more details, including a document with the generated ACPI events.
Also has information on kernel configuration if backlight isn't working.

V1J

Brightness keys does not work under Linux without custom DSDT. I needed to comment few lines. Second way to do that (I did not test it) is probably to set os name from bootloader with acpi_osi=Linux

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