Linux on Asus K40IN

Well, this is not going as planned. I got my laptop, which I must say is a cool little machine. The problems started with me not being able to find the BIOS. So does anybody have a clue, apparently, my memory says that the first time I turned it on the BIOS said Setup Menu F2. Will that get me the right thing? Does my CD have to be in at boot-up? Thanks!

Any help is really good. I'm not normally this clueless.

 

Yes, hit F2 repeated during boot up.....the CD needs to be in the drive....'port back

 

Will do. Give me a minute while I try this.

 

Ain't working. I get this thing that gives me different options on how I want to run windows but nothing else.

 

Does it say F2 for BIOS in the manual? Sometimes F1, or other keys will do it.

 

Got the screen I was looking for, except when I changed the settings, nothing happened and Vista came up again. I have a split second to get the screen but now I know how. So first problem solved, now the next one. Did I do something wrong? I went Boot- CD/DVD drive, F10 Save and Exit. When Vista showed up again I restarted but still came to vista. My CD was in the drive. Where did I go wrong?


Whatever I figure out, I'll try again tomorrow. I'm a bit tired tonight and just frustrated with the way Vista has killed and chewed my stuff today. It ate the Flash player and is now doing weird things with Firefox. See why it has to go? The hardware should be fine because everything was great yesturday until windows decided to update a bunch of stuff. This is just like my desktop now. /rant over

 

OK...you have CD listed first in boot order....then, make sure you have good iso burn of Ubuntu. It should boot right on up...

EDIT: You farm girls go to sleep early...heck, my day is just starting

 

On ASUS laptops hit ESC for the boot popup where you can select the boot device. Select the DVD drive and hit Enter.

 

Yep......that's it....I've got/had 3 Asus's

 

In the BIOS setup the DVD drive would need to be before the hard drives in the boot order. That's probably why that wasn't working...

It could also be that the CD wasn't burned correctly.

Using the boot menu with Esc is the easiest way to boot the installer... if that doesn't work it's a problem with your CD.

 

OMG it works and its ten times faster even on the CD!!! typing this from the demo. Will probably install later night or tomorrow. Had to use ethernet though but at least I know it should work. YEAH!!!!!

 

No sound, can I fix that... and some of my keys are messed like shift for getting the question mark, I get this É. Also need to get wireless working. if its fixable I want to install this. it makes my vista soooo slow.

 

Try changing your keyboard layout:
System->Preferences->Keyboard->Layouts

You may want to change both the layout (hit 'Add' and select 'Canada' and then your respective layout) and the keyboard model (to Asus laptop).

If you dump your output from this command it'll tell you what kind of wireless card you have (I'm not sure off the top of my head what chipset it is):

Code:

lspci | grep -i network

 

This will dump some info about your sound card:

Code:

lspci -vvnn | grep -iA9 'audio device'

It should be some sort of Intel HD Audio chipset I would think, you might just need some module options.

 

I tried that but I don't get anything I understand. I did figure out that if the headphones are plugged in, I have sound. So I can get internet using ethernet and sound using headphones which makes me think that I could get everything to work. How do I parition the hdd so that 70GB goes to vista and 250GB to Ubuntu, as I want the Ubuntu to be the primary. Is this possible to do? I'd remove Vista all the way, if thats better as its slower, and is a x32 while my Ubuntu is x64.


ETA:
The web tells me this about the audio-
Support Audio Jack Detect for Vista Basic Logo
Support Audio CODEC criteria for Vista Premium Logo
Built-in Azalia compliant audio chip, with 3D effect & full duplex
Built-in speaker and microphone
Altec Lansing® co-brand speakers
SRS

And this for the WLAN
Integrated 802.11a/b/g/n
10/100/1000 Base T

Everything else including chipset is in my sig.

 

Just choose the Resize option when you run the installer, it will let you change the size of the windows partition.

Could you paste the output from those 2 commands I listed above? It is needed to tell what kind of chipsets you have (it's not what is in your sig).

Try unchecking the 'headphone' switch in your mixer, it might make your speakers work.

 

Will try to do that. May not happen until tonight as I have to go move farrowing sows (very dangerous, and not fun at all).

Thank you for all your help, I really appreciate it!

 

I have now installed it in full, no more vista. It was the router that caused the wireless problems. Will report back later on the sound issue. I like this new os already boot time was 30s compared to vistas 2.5 minutes.

 

Awesome!

If your sound works with the headphones it probably is the headphone sense configuration, there is usually a module option that you need to set.

Can you paste the output from this command:

Code:

aplay -l

 

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC662 Analog [ALC662 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 ]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Thats what I got. Here's what I got from the other commands.

ursina@LittleBear:~$ lspci | grep -i network
05:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)


ursina@LittleBear:~$ lspci -vvnn | grep -iA9 'audio device'
00:08.0 Audio device [0403]: nVidia Corporation MCP79 High Definition Audio [10de:0ac0] (rev b1)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:16f3]
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0 (500ns min, 1250ns max)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21
Region 0: Memory at fae78000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel


Will that make a difference?

 

Cool, since you already said your wireless works, I'm assuming that everything is OK there. Looks like you should be using either madwifi or ath9k, but that doesn't matter as long as it works

Did you try opening the mixer and unchecking 'headphone'? That should confirm whether it is the headphone autosensing that is in need of configuration.

You may need to experiment with some settings to get headphone autosense to work, I'm not entirely sure which one you need.

The setting is just one line and it goes at the bottom of /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf. For example, here is the line for my ASUS G50V:

Code:

options snd-hda-intel model=m51va

I found this model setting by trial and error, ironically the G50V setting doesn't work properly. To try these options, first edit alsa-base.conf:

Code:

gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

At the bottom paste in a line like in my example above and change only the model setting with the ones listed below. Save the file and reload ALSA, and see if anything changes:

Code:

sudo alsa force-reload

Here is a full list of the model settings (found in the kernel source directory in Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt):

Code:

ALC662/663
==========
  3stack-dig    3-stack (2-channel) with SPDIF
  3stack-6ch     3-stack (6-channel)
  3stack-6ch-dig 3-stack (6-channel) with SPDIF
  6stack-dig     6-stack with SPDIF
  lenovo-101e    Lenovo laptop
  eeepc-p701    ASUS Eeepc P701
  eeepc-ep20    ASUS Eeepc EP20
  ecs           ECS/Foxconn mobo
  m51va         ASUS M51VA
  g71v          ASUS G71V
  h13           ASUS H13
  g50v          ASUS G50V
  asus-mode1    ASUS
  asus-mode2    ASUS
  asus-mode3    ASUS
  asus-mode4    ASUS
  asus-mode5    ASUS
  asus-mode6    ASUS
  auto          auto-config reading BIOS (default)

 

I'm not sure if I'm running madwifi or something else. my connection breaks rather often which is a nuisance as I'm trying to up date everything. I'll look into the sound, once I get there. Thanks for everything!