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# ASUS A6km

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This page describes troubleshooting and configuration specific to the Asus A6km laptop.

On this model, a known buggy BIOS problem results in a system hang when any USB device, such as a mouse, is attached at bootup. This can be fixed using a downgraded BIOS version (can be downloaded here[dead link 2020-03-28 ⓘ]). The installation described uses this 202 BIOS version and so far no problems have been encountered, even the power management modules behave properly.

See the Installation guide for installation instructions.

## Hardware

- 1.8GHz AMD Turion 64 ML34 Processor
- 15.4" XGA Widescreen TFT Screen
- 256MB Nvidia Geforce Go 7300
- 100GB Hard Drive
- RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet Integrated Card
- Broadcom Integrated 802.11g wireless card
- DVD Dual Layer Drive
- Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro
- 1.3 Mega Pixel USB Intergrated Camera
- SiS AC'97 Sound Card

lspci outout:

    00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Device 0756 (rev 02)
    00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] PCI-to-PCI bridge
    00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS964 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 36)
    00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev 01)
    00:02.6 Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Modem Controller (rev a0)
    00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Sound Controller (rev a0)
    00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
    00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
    00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
    00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
    00:09.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
    00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev b3)
    00:0a.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 08)
    00:0a.2 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 17)
    00:0a.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 08)
    00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
    00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
    00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
    00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
    00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
    01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G72M [Quadro NVS 110M/GeForce Go 7300] (rev a1)

## Wireless

For wireless, can use the b43-fwcutter package to install the firmware, (run lsmod command to check if the b43 module is running):

    # b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware /path_to_driver

the driver can be found here

## Audio

The sound card [SiS AC'97] was detected on installation and the correct modules for audio loaded at bootup.

See ALSA for installation/configuration details.

## Touchpad

See Touchpad Synaptics.

## Webcam

The webcam was detected on installation and the modules loaded at bootup.

    Linux video capture interface: v2.00
    stkwebcam: Syntek USB2.0 Camera is now controlling video device /dev/video0

The cheese webcam package worked well with the installed drivers. Cheese is installed with Gnome extras packages.

## Modem

Not tested so far

## IrDA

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First make sure the device is enabled in the BIOS, then once booted up, start the daemon:

    # /etc/rc.d/irda start

One way to test the device is to install the irda-utilsAUR utilities and run the command:

    # irdadump

the output should look something like this when working:

    13:13:59.173537 xid:cmd 851b3728 > ffffffff S=6 s=0 (14)
    13:13:59.263432 xid:cmd 851b3728 > ffffffff S=6 s=1 (14)
    13:13:59.353394 xid:cmd 851b3728 > ffffffff S=6 s=2 (14)
    13:13:59.443431 xid:cmd 851b3728 > ffffffff S=6 s=3 (14)
    13:13:59.533395 xid:cmd 851b3728 > ffffffff S=6 s=4 (14)
    13:13:59.626729 xid:rsp 851b3728 < 26098ceb S=6 s=4 Sony Ericss hint=9124 [ PnP Modem IrCOMM  IrOBEX ] (28)
    13:13:59.633430 xid:cmd 851b3728 > ffffffff S=6 s=5 (14)
    13:13:59.723433 xid:cmd 851b3728 > ffffffff S=6 s=* asus-archlinux-64 hint=0400 [ Computer ] (33)

The 'Sony Ericss' entry is a nearby (direct line of sight) mobile phone with infra-red enabled.

There should also be an irda0 entry when running the `ip a` command as the root user.

## Card Reader

Not tested so far

## Tv Out

Not tested.

## Other Software/Utilities

### Power Management

For cpu scaling, see CPU frequency scaling.

### Suspend to RAM/Disk

For suspend-to-ram, follow the instructions in the Suspend to RAM page.

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