Linux Fedora 7 on Asus Z99J Series and Asus A8JN notebook

Last updated: 27/06/2007 – Work In Progress

General Hardware Specifications of Lifebook S 7110:

Utili repository per Fedora core 7

Sound System – Audio

After installation i cannot hear audio.
The default conf do not work.
I have changed my modprobe.conf
(see below) and everything work correctly.

[root@trinity2 ~]# cat /etc/modprobe.conf
alias eth0 r8169
alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
alias sound-slot-0 snd-hda-intel
options snd-hda-intel model=3stack
options snd-card-0 index=0

Webcam

On my Asus Z99Jseries (like a A8JN)
to make webcam work you have to install this software:
http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Download/gspcav1-20070508.tar.gz
This is the home page:
http://mxhaard.free.fr/download.html
You have to follow this steps:

wget http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Download/gspcav1-20070508.tar.gz
tar -zxvf gspcav1-20070508.tar.gz
cd gspcav1-20070508

make
make install
modprobe gspca

Now it work perfectly.
You can try it with vlc

If your image should be strange and with bad color change your
/etc/modprobe.conf :

add this line

options gspca force_rgb=1

else, if your image is too dark, try this line:

options gspca force_rgb=0 gamma=4

when you have a change reload the module before retry

modprobe -r gspca
modprobe gspca

You can change on the fly the gspca parameter here

cd /sys/module/gspca/parameters
autoexpo
compress
debug
force_rgb
gamma
GBlue
GGreen
GRed
lightfreq
OffBlue
OffGreen
OffRed
usbgrabber

to read them you can usa a cat
to change them use this:

echo “value” > parameter
this is a little description:

autoexpo:Enable/Disable auto exposure (default=1: enabled) (PC-CAM 600/Zc03xx/spca561a/Etoms Only !!!) (int)
debug:Debug level: 0=none, 1=init/detection, 2=warning, 3=config/control, 4=function call, 5=max (int)
force_rgb:Read RGB instead of BGR (int)
gamma:gamma setting range 0 to 7 3-> gamma=1 (int)
OffRed:OffRed setting range -128 to 128 (int)
OffBlue:OffBlue setting range -128 to 128 (int)
OffGreen:OffGreen setting range -128 to 128 (int)
GRed:Gain Red setting range 0 to 512 /256 (int)
GBlue:Gain Blue setting range 0 to 512 /256 (int)
GGreen:Gain Green setting range 0 to 512 /256 (int)
compress:Turn on/off compression (not functional yet) (int)
usbgrabber:Is a usb grabber 0x0733:0x0430 ? (default 1) (int)
lightfreq:Light frequency banding filter. Set to 50 or 60 Hz, or zero to NoFliker (default=50) (int)

Card Reader

Every info from:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_SD_and_MMC_card_readers

Lan

Driver only included in newer Kernels (RTL8168b/8111b), Module name “r8169” or alternatively the proprietary Realtek-driver “r1000“.
I recommend to use the build in kernel driver, because it’s making less trouble during an upgrade and it’s working as it should.

TouchPad

Synaptics Touchpad, works with the dafualt configuration obtained after installation (including scrollbars)

ACPI

modprobe asus-laptop
load the correct module, but i had good experience with slackware and
http://sourceforge.net/projects/acpi4asus

Installare il supporto per mp3 mplayer e dvd player