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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](http://people.bath.ac.uk/enxspd/laptop/Opensuse103_Laptop.html)). 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](/index.php/Installation_guide "Installation guide") for installation instructions.

## Contents

*   [1 Hardware](#Hardware)
*   [2 Wireless](#Wireless)
*   [3 Audio](#Audio)
*   [4 Touchpad](#Touchpad)
*   [5 Webcam](#Webcam)
*   [6 Modem](#Modem)
*   [7 IrDA](#IrDA)
*   [8 Card Reader](#Card_Reader)
*   [9 Tv Out](#Tv_Out)
*   [10 Other Software/Utilities](#Other_Software.2FUtilities)
    *   [10.1 Power Management](#Power_Management)
    *   [10.2 Suspend to RAM/Disk](#Suspend_to_RAM.2FDisk)

## 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](http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43)

## Audio

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

See [ALSA](/index.php/ALSA "ALSA") for installation/configuration details.

## Touchpad

See [Touchpad Synaptics](/index.php/Touchpad_Synaptics "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

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 utilities:

```
# pacman -S irda-utils

```

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.

## Card Reader

Not tested so far

## Tv Out

Not tested.

## Other Software/Utilities

### Power Management

For cpu scaling, see [CPU frequency scaling](/index.php/CPU_frequency_scaling "CPU frequency scaling").

### Suspend to RAM/Disk

For suspend-to-ram, follow the instructions in the [Suspend to RAM](/index.php/Suspend_to_RAM "Suspend to RAM") page.