Linux Fedora 7 on Asus Z99J Series and Asus A8JN notebook

Installing Fedora 7 on
Linux on Asus Z99J Series and Asus A8JN

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

General Hardware Specifications of Lifebook S 7110:

Hardware Components	Status under Linux	Notes
Intel Core 2 Duo T5500	Works	No special procedure required during installation.
14.1 XGA TFT Display	Works	Select Generic LCD Display in Installer
Nvidia GEForce 7300	Works	Follow this article
1 GB RAM	Works	No special procedure required during installation
120 GB SATA Hard Drive	Works	No special procedure required during installation
Internal Intel Wireless Networking (Wi-Fi Certified)	Works	With ipw3945 driver: Follow this article
Integrated Network Card	Works	You need kernel >= 2.6.19 Special procedure required during installation. Read below for more details
Internal 56k Modem	Not Tested	In progress
CD-RW DVD-RW Drive	Works	No special procedure required during installation
IrDA	Not Tested	In progress
Intel High Definition Audio Controller	Works	You need Kernel 2.6.x. Special procedure required during installation. Read below for more details
USB	Works	No special procedure required during installation
ACPI	Works	Special procedure required during installation. Read below for more details
PCMCIA/PCCARD	Not tested	In Progress
FireWire/IEEE1394	Work	No special procedure required during installation
Card Reader	Works	Special procedure required during installation. Read below for more details
Battery	Works	No special procedure required during installation
Webcam	Works	Special procedure required during installation. Read below for more details

This laptop is operating under Kernel version 2.6.21

installazione di Fedora 7:

• Scaricare Fedora 7
• Installare Fedora 7

Operazioni post-installazione

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

Installare Flash Palyer su Fedora Core 7

Installare True Type Font su Fedora Core 7

Installare RealPlayer su Fedora Core 7

Installare Adobe Reader su Fedora Core 7

Multimedia-Codecs su Fedora Core 7

Fedora 7 java runtime engine jre e java development kit jdk e firefox plugin

Beryl su KDE su Fedora Core 7

Suspend to ram - sospensione in ram su Fedora 7

Abilitare Frame Buffer a 1024x768 su Fedora Core 7



More Specific Information. Specific stuff such as:

• lspci

[root@trinity2 ~]# lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)

00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)

00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)

00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)

00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)

00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G72M [Quadro NVS 110M/GeForce Go 7300] (rev a1)

02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)

03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01)

06:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller

06:00.1 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)

06:00.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0843 (rev 01)

06:00.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 0a)

06:00.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 05)

[root@trinity2 ~]#

• lsusb

[root@trinity2 ~]# lsusb

Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 093a:2500 Pixart Imaging, Inc.

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Bus 005 Device 002: ID 0ac8:0321 Z-Star Microelectronics Corp.

Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

[root@trinity2 ~]#

Contact Information:

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