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• Contact: ÉricDané

• Brand: Asus
• Make :
• Model: W7J-3P051P

• Website: http://france.asus.com/products3.aspx?l1=5&l2=75&l3=298&slname=S%C3%A9rie%20W7

Current Issues

System Info

## output of $ cd /var/lib/acpi-support/ ; grep . -r *-*
bios-version:302
system-manufacturer:ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
system-product-name:W7J
system-version:1.0

Hardware details

Hardware info

## output of $ uname -r && lspci
2.6.15-27-386
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PCI Express Graphics Port (rev 03)
0000:00:1b.0 0403: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
0000:00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
0000:00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controllers cc=IDE (rev 02)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 01d8 (rev a1)
0000:05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 8168 (rev 01)
0000:06:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 4222 (rev 02)
0000:07:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd: Unknown device 0832
0000:07:03.1 0805: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)
0000:07:03.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd: Unknown device 0843 (rev 01)
0000:07:03.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 0a)
0000:07:03.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 05)

## output of $ lsusb
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 0c45:624f Microdia
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0a5c:2101 Broadcom Corp.
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Configuration procedures

kernel for Intel® Core™ Duo CPU

• install Linux kernel available for Pentium Pro/Celeron/Pentium II/Pentium III/Pentium IV with SMP (symmetric multi-processing) support : $ sudo apt-get install linux-686-smp linux-headers-$(uname -r)

  • check that 2 CPU are runing :

    $ cat /proc/cpuinfo
    processor       : 0
    vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
    cpu family      : 6
    model           : 15
    model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU         T5600  @ 1.83GHz
    stepping        : 6
    cpu MHz         : 1829.006
    cache size      : 2048 KB
    physical id     : 0
    [...]
    processor       : 1
    vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
    cpu family      : 6
    model           : 15
    model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU         T5600  @ 1.83GHz
    stepping        : 6
    cpu MHz         : 1829.006
    cache size      : 2048 KB
    physical id     : 1
    [...]

graphic controller nVidia

confere : http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/nvidia

• install kernel restricted modules : $ sudo apt-get install linux-restricted-modules-$(uname -r)

• install NVIDIA binary XFree8 insta6 4.x/X.Org driver : $ sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx

• configure driver : $ sudo nvidia-xconfig 

• restart X

• adjust configuration executing : $ nvidia-settings

• to modify screen resolution :

  • add "1280 x 800" to xorg display modes :

    $ gksu gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
    Section "Screen"
        # [...]
        SubSection     "Display"
            # [...]
            Modes      "1280 x 800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection

  • restart X

touchpad

• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad

turn off while typing

Turn on SHMCONFIG : add a to /etc/X11/xorg.conf line Option "SHMConfig" "on" the end of Section "InputDevice"

Webcam

## quotes from output of $ lsusb -v
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 0c45:624f Microdia
  idVendor           0x0c45 Microdia
  idProduct          0x624f 

more details : http://eric.dane.free.fr/file/AsusW7J-webcam.txt

The built-in webcam on the W7J use the sn9c201 chipset according to this post : http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-uvc-devel@lists.berlios.de/msg00542.html

Finally we have an open source working driver:

• http://groups.google.com/group/microdia

here is a short simple tutorial:

• http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=3278824&postcount=61

Older Project (closed) :

• http://www.linux-projects.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=260&forum=3

• http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=548554

See also

• http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?id=16670&p=57

• http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?id=75259

Links

• http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/materiel/

• hardware malfunctioning on asus w7j : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=373659

• http://ubuntuforums.org/tags/index.php/w7j/

• General Linux compatibility guide for the Asus W7J

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