Linux on the ASUS N10 N10J

tleilaxian · 10-06-2010, 06:36 AM

I see. I'd be very grateful if you helped me with the config file

Maybe you can tell me about common issues, so I could look into it myself.

Hope I'm not bothering you too much

ALLurGroceries · 10-06-2010, 07:29 AM

In a nutshell:

Grab the latest stable kernel from kernel.org

Substitute its version for 2.6.34 and follow the guide.

When you get to make oldconfig, you can hit enter/return to accept the defaults until you get to INTEL_IDLE, where you should type M to select it as a module. Then you can pretty much hold down enter/return to accept the defaults for the rest of the defaults. There isn't anything else extremely important that is jumping out at me for 2.6.35 on the N10.

Most of the hard work with the config was done a long time ago by stripping out the unnecessary stuff, but keeping enough so that most users' devices and accessories would work without additional steps. This was done mostly by trial and error and is the result of collaboration on this thread. The challenge now is to stay up to date with new kernel options, which isn't even that necessary, since once you know the basic hardware you can just do a search for the option (like INTEL_IDLE for example) and figure out what it does.

If you mess up your .config, you can use wget to get the default one from the guide to overwrite it. You can always clean your source tree with make-kpkg clean to start fresh (but that doesn't delete your config).

tleilaxian · 10-08-2010, 04:05 PM

Thanks!

New kernel seems to work fine. Only one problem: I get this message during booting:
mount: mounting none on /dev failed No such device

But I have problems with the Nvidia driver.
During the installation, when I get to the cp /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 ~/intel line, it says that there is no such file. And I think I somehow messed up with moving the libglx.so file... When I rebooted the system, fonts looked differently and I couldn't open any window, because it always jumped back to the desktop. I switched for the Intel and rebooted again. Now there is no desktop at all, only the upper panel. What I have done wrong?

ALLurGroceries · 10-08-2010, 04:11 PM

The kernel error message at boot is normal and can be ignored.

I'm not sure what went wrong with your graphics drivers. If you ran the NVIDIA installer without following the guide, and then tried doing the guide this could happen I guess. Reinstall these packages and your intel stuff should work again:

Code:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx xserver-xorg-core

tleilaxian · 10-08-2010, 04:24 PM

I reinstalled the packages. Now both Intel and Nvidia have the same problem: all opened windows immediately minimize and I cannot bring them to the top...

ALLurGroceries · 10-08-2010, 05:00 PM

It could be that the xorg.conf files from the guide are out of date, you can try this to restore your original one. From the terminal at CTRL+ALT+F1:

Code:

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.old /etc/X11/xorg.conf

If you don't have an xorg.conf.old, just remove xorg.conf altogether:

Code:

sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Restart gdm to see if it works:

Code:

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart

If it does work, you'll need to remove the detectgpu startup script until the xorg.conf files can be fixed.

If that doesn't do it....

If you're using gnome turning off desktop effects under appearance preferences might help.

Reinstalling the intel packages should always revert what the NVIDIA driver installer will do and give you a working setup.

On the other hand, if you install NVIDIA alone, without any steps from the guide, your NVIDIA card should always work.

If neither of these is true for you, something else is going on. You'll have to look at your command history and figure out what else happened.

Edit 2: If the xorg.conf files are out of date (which they probably are) and are breaking things let me know, I can try and make new ones...

Mr.Henrique · 11-06-2010, 09:42 PM

Hi there.
I'm trying to install Ubuntu 10.10 on my N10Jc but i'm having some problems.
I can't have both GPU's working... If i install with nvidia on i cant start with the intel... If i install with intel i cant use Nvidia.
Also i cant use VDPAU. Dont know why...

Can you please make a updated tutorial?

Thank you very much.

Greetings from Portugal.

ALLurGroceries · 11-07-2010, 02:20 AM

Unfortunately I'm at a dead end with this -- as you can see nobody replied to my last message, and I don't own the hardware anymore. I think the problem is with the xorg.conf files, since a lot has changed with the xorg server since the guide was updated, but I don't know for sure. If you can't get the nvidia driver working, vdpau will not work, but with the nvidia driver, mplayer works fine with vdpau. Take care.

Edit: you can try deleting xorg.conf.nvidia and xorg.conf.intel that I have provided, and use instead a blank file for xorg.conf.intel, and rename the xorg.conf that nvidia-xconfig makes to xorg.conf.nvidia. Should hopefully work better than what's there now... let me know.