linux on the w7j

Yea not upgrading the bios fixes cpufreq, but not the cdrom drive issue..

Do you have the hda: TSSTcorpCD/DVDW TS-L632D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive?

Cos I've seen allot of issues with this particular drive on the web..

I've got suspend2 working (i assume it works with the older BIOS), i had to manually uninstall a few modules and also the ipw3945 stuff, but seem pretty good..

cannot seem to get s2ram functional, always get a blank screen on resume (keyboard still works) with what ever I try, I suspect another BIOS issue, seeing as most others with Nvidia video cards don't seem to have to much trouble...

I emailed Asus about their regression on the BIOS upgrade; haven't received anything back as yet.

jims

 

the bios shows:

MAT****ADVD-RAM UJ-850S

good point. guess i got lucky.

i havent tried s2ram yet. maybe tonight.

 

suspend to ram using suspend2 (PowerdownMethod 3) is working. thats good enough for me.

 

I have exactly the same problems with cpufreq after upgrading the bios to ver 304. Cpu0 has no cpufreq driver.Also when I tried to set a bios password i got locked out of the machine.Had to remove the internal battery in order to reset the password.
I don't think that asus will care much if cpu throttling won't work on linux as long as it doesn't affect windows.
Wondering what they did. My guess they broke the DSDT

 

It seems that downgrading the bios to v302 is the only option to get back the cpufreq functionality.303 has the same problems. With 304 suspend to disk and asus_acpi stopped working as well.
To downgrade the bios just use winflash /nodate from command prompt as Darrick mentions.

 

In Ubuntu 7.04 my card reader works fine with SD card, but fails with MMC cards.

 

The webcam seems to work with the new driver SN9Cxxx

http://www.linux-projects.org/modules/news/

The image is not perfect, at least for me. It's upside down, but you can correct it through the capture software, as VLC.

 

SN9Cxxx will work for you if you are using (atm):

PCLinuxOS 2007, kernel 2.6.18.tex5
Ubuntu Feisty 7.04, kernel 2.6.20-16-generic, i686
openSUSE 10.2 (kernel 2.6.18.2-34-default)
Ubuntu Feisty 7.04,kernel 2.6.20-16-generic, 64Bit

everyone else is out of luck or has to pay the developer for a custom version. :-(

 

I find solution for issues with the CDROM freezing the system:
update CDROM firmware, replace asus firmware for samsung firmware (crossflashing)
ata1.00: ATAPI: TSSTcorpCD/DVDW TS-L632D, SC04, max UDMA/33
SC04 is firmware from samsung for this drive (google: samsung SC04)

freezing is gone, but you maybe loss your warranty for notebook

 

Now seems to work on Ubuntu 8.04 out of the box

 

Great News!!!

Finally, we have a FREE AND OPEN driver for our webcam!!

https://groups.google.com/group/microdia

tested on my W7J, it works!
good quality and the image is no longer upside down!

my steps to get it to work (on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron):

1)

Code:

sudo apt-get install linux-source-$(uname -r) linux-headers-$(uname -r)  build-essential git-core curl exuberant-ctags

2)

Code:

git clone http://repo.or.cz/r/microdia.git 

3)

Code:

cd microdia
make

4a)

Code:

sudo modprobe videodev

4b)

Code:

sudo insmod ./microdia.ko vflip=1

if everything is ok, dmesg should give

Code:

[ 9876.159937] microdia: Microdia USB2.0 webcam driver startup
[ 9876.160003] microdia: Microdia USB2.0 Webcam - Product ID 624F.
[ 9876.160009] microdia: Release: 0100
[ 9876.160013] microdia: Number of interfaces : 1
[ 9876.161372] microdia: Microdia USB2.0 Camera is now controlling video device /dev/video0
[ 9876.161425] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb_microdia_driver
[ 9876.161432] microdia: v0.0.0 : Microdia USB Video Camera
[ 9876.209678] Changing resolution to 640 by 480

your video device will be /dev/video0

enjoy!

 

real nice ...
thx