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# ASUS B9450CEA

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Hardware | PCI/USB ID | Working?
--- | --- | ---
GPU | `8086:9a49` | Yes
Ethernet (via mHDMI adapter) | `8086:15fc` | Yes
Wireless | `8086:a0f0` | Yes
Bluetooth | `8087:0026` | Yes
Touchpad | `04f3:3134` | Yes
Webcam HD/IR | `13d3:56eb` | Yes
Speakers | `8086:a0c8` | Yes
Microphone | `8086:a0c8` | Yes
Keyboard backlight | `-` | Yes
TPM (2.0) | `unknown` | Untested
Fingerprint reader | `unknown` | Untested

This article applies to `B9450CEA-XH75` (16G RAM/1TB SSD) and `B9450CEA-XH77` (32G RAM/2TB SSD).

## Summary

The 2nd generation of ASUS B9450 with 11th Gen Intel CPU with Intel Xe graphics.

Models are `B9450CEA-*` compared to `B9450FA-*` of the 1st generation.

## BIOS

To boot from a USB stick, you may have to turn off Fast Boot and Secure Boot: How to boot the system from USB flash drive/CD-ROM.

Note: You do not have to turn off VMD in BIOS as long as you have `vmd` module enabled in your initram image wikipedia:Intel_Rapid_Storage_Technology#Intel_VROC_(Virtual_RAID_on_CPU).
Warning: Even though the model line is `B9450CEA`, in BIOS and on the official support page it's indicated as `B9400CEA`.

dmidecode will also display Product Name as `ASUS EXPERTBOOK B9400CEA_B9450CEA` and BIOS Version as, e.g., `B9400CEA.301`.

## Audio

This laptop requires firmware in order for the soundcard to work. See Advanced Linux Sound Architecture#ALSA firmware.

## Suspend mode

By default the system supports `Suspend-to-Idle` mode, which has increased energy consumption during sleep state:

    # cat /sys/power/mem_sleep
    [s2idle] deep

To fix that you might want to switch to S3 mode (also known as `Suspend-to-RAM` or deep) by appending `mem_sleep_default=deep` to kernel parameters.

## Function keys

Key | Visible? | Marked? | Effect
--- | --- | --- | ---
`Fn+Esc` | No | Yes | Enables Fn lock
`Fn+F1` | Yes | Yes | `XF86AudioMute`
`Fn+F2` | Yes | Yes | `XF86AudioLowerVolume`
`Fn+F3` | Yes | Yes | `XF86AudioRaiseVolume`
`Fn+F4` | Yes | Yes | `XF86MonBrightnessDown`
`Fn+F5` | Yes | Yes | `XF86MonBrightnessUp`
`Fn+F6` | Yes | Yes | `XF86TouchpadToggle`
`Fn+F7` | No | Yes | Switches keyboard backlight
`Fn+F8` | Yes | Yes | `p`
`Fn+F9` | Yes | Yes | `l`
`Fn+F10` | No | Yes | N/A
`Fn+F11` | Yes | Yes | `S`
`Fn+F12` | No | Yes | N/A

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