AsusL5800DF

Current Issues

Ever since kernel 2.6.10 was introduced when hoary was unstable, noapic has been required. (http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7502)

Hardware details

in Hoary (current stable)?

in Breezy (current development)?

Installation works?

yes

Yes

Hardware Information

Screen & Monitors

Device

Works?

Bug #

in Hoary (current stable)?

in Breezy (current development)?

Screen

yes

Yes

Correct resolution?

yes

Yes

Correct refresh rate?

yes

Yes

3D Acceleration

yes, with proprietary nvidia drivers

yes, with proprietary nvidia drivers

External monitor works?

tv-out works with some xorg.conf-magic

tv-out works with some xorg.conf-magic

External monitor - mirrors

Untested

Untested

External monitor - extend desktop

Untested

Untested

Power Management

Battery detected?

Yes

yes

Hibernates?

No

No

Sleep

No

No

Dim monitor on battery

No

No

Blank monitor on inactivity

Untested

Yes

Lid Close

No

Yes

Cpu frequency scaling

yes

Yes

Sound

Sound works?

yes

Yes

Correct volume?

yes

Yes

Hardware volume switch

NA

NA

Headphone jack

Yes

Yes

Mic jack

Untested

Untested

Networking

Wired NIC

Yes

Yes

Wireless NIC

Requires NDIS-wrapper

Untested

PCMCIA NIC

Untested

Untested

Firewire

Untested

Untested

Modem

No

No

Infrared

no

Untested

Touchpad & Mice

Touchpad

Yes

Yes

Touchpad - Doubletap = double click

Yes

Yes

Touchpad - Scroll down side

Yes

Yes

External mouse - USB

Yes

Yes

External mouse - Serial

Untested

Untested

Additional Hardware

CD/DVD drive

yes

Yes

PCMCIA cards

Untested

Untested

Parallel Ports

Untested

Untested

Card reader(s)

no

no

The codes are what /proc/acpi/event gets. The last number seems to be some sort of counter and it varies. With the display-brightnesskeys, the first value varies within two different intervals as the screen goes darker/brighter.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/acpi4asus may have something good on this laptop and hotkeys.

Function and other keys

Fn key

Operation

Keycode

Works?

Bug #

in Hoary (current stable)?

in Breezy (current development)?

+ F1

Sleep

button/sleep SLPB 00000080 00000009

Nothing happens

Nothing Happens

+ F5

Make display less bright

hotkey ATKD (0000002e..00000020)

yes

Yes

+ F6

Make display Brighter

hotkey ATKD (00000011..0000001f)

yes

Yes

+ F7

Turn off display backlight

yes

Yes

+ F8

Switch between internal and external screen

hotkey ATKD 00000061 00000007

Untested

Untested

+ F10

Mute/un-Mute sound

hotkey ATKD 00000032 00000014

no

Yes

+ F11

Lower volume

hotkey ATKD 00000031 0000003d

no

Yes

+ F12

Raise volume

hotkey ATKD 00000030 0000001f

no

Yes

Other special keys

Key

Operation

Keycode

Works?

Bug #

in Hoary (current stable)?

in Breezy (current development)?

Go-away (lock screen)

hotkey ATKD 0000005c 00000002

no

Yes

Launch mail-reader

hotkey ATKD 00000050 00000003

no

Yes

Launch web-browser

hotkey ATKD 00000051 00000002

no

Yes

Disable touchpad

hotkey ATKD 0000006b 00000001

no

No

Previous track

hotkey ATKD 00000040 00000001

no

Yes

Next track

hotkey ATKD 00000041 00000001

no

Yes

Stop

hotkey ATKD 00000042 00000001

no

Yes

Play/Pause

hotkey ATKD 00000045 00000001

no

Yes

Lid open/close

button/lid LID 00000080 00000004

does nothing

Starts xscreensaver with blank screen

Notes

Using amd64

LaptopTestingTeam/Old/AsusL5800DF (last edited 2010-02-26 23:50:02 by 94)