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# ASUS N550JX

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Device | Status | Module
Intel | Working | xf86-video-intel
Nvidia | Working | nvidia
Ethernet | Working | r8169
Wireless | Working | iwlwifi
Audio | Working | snd_hda_intel
Touchpad | Working | xf86-input-synaptics
Camera | Working | uvcvideo
Card Reader | Working | rtsx_usb
Bluetooth | Working | bluetooth

## Hardware

This article covers hardware specific configuration for ASUS N550JX laptop.

## Configuration

### Video

Laptop comes with two GPUs (main INTEL and dedicated NVIDIA):

    $ lspci | grep "VGA|3D"

    00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06)
    01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107M [GeForce GTX 950M] (rev ff)

NVIDIA Optimus technology can be implemented and controlled using Bumblebee software.

### Audio

Built-in speakers and headphones work out of the box with `snd_hda_intel` driver. External sub-woofer works after this patch is applied:

    /etc/modprobe.d/snd-hda-intel-n550jx.conf

    options snd-hda-intel patch=n550jx-lfe-fix,n550jx-lfe-fix

    /lib/firmware/n550jx-lfe-fix

    [codec]
    0x10ec0668 0x104313df 0

    [pincfg]
    0x1a 0x00106111

You can install patch from asus-n550jx-subwoofer-fixAUR

At the time of writing this article kernel bug is filled for this patch to be included in ALSA future releases.

### Keyboard

In order to make all keyboard function keys (`FN+F{1..12}`) generate correct signals - add kernel parameter `acpi_osi=` to your bootloader.

## Troubleshooting

### nouveau problems

Installation media sometimes produces a lot of error messages during boot. This is a bug in the nouveau driver. Just ignore hitting Enter few times. Later you can disable `nouveau` module:

    /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf

    blacklist nouveau

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