linux on the w7j

[jimss]

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

[jdkbx]

the bios shows:

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

good point. guess i got lucky.

i havent tried s2ram yet. maybe tonight.

[jdkbx]

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

[kanenas]

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

[kanenas]

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.

[rmtzr]

Ps. Webcam and Card Reader still dead

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

[rmtzr]

Ps. Webcam and Card Reader still dead

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.

[jdkbx]

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. :-(

[Slayer605]

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?

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

[k4ez4r]

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

Now seems to work on Ubuntu 8.04 out of the box