ASUS X71SL

Asus X71SL is a laptop manufactured by Asus.

Product page: http://www.asus.com/Notebooks/Multimedia_Entertainment/X71SL/

This article describes the hardware on the M50V and the drivers required to use it.

Hardware

Hardware Summary and Support Status

Hardware Type	Device	Model	Support	Driver
Processor	Processor	Intel Pentium(R) Dual-Core T4200 (2.00GHz)	Full	acpi-cpufreq
	Power Management	ACPI	Full	acpi
	PCI Express Bus	SiS 671MX	Full	pcieport
Secondary Storage	Hard Disk	SiS (SATA / IDE mode!)	Full	pata_sis?
	DVD RW Drive	TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-L633A	Full	sata_sis
	Memory Card Reader	Ricoh R5C822	Full	sdhci-pci
Video Chipset	Discrete GPU	nVidia 9300M GS	Full	nvidia
Input	Keyboard	-	Full	evdev
	Touchpad	-	Partial	synaptics
Network	Gigabit Ethernet	SiS 191	Full	sis190
	802.11n Wifi	Atheros AR928X	Full	ath9k
	Modem	N/A	?	?
	Infrared Interface	N/A	?	?
Sound	HD Audio	SiS, Azalia	Full	snd_hda_intel (realtek codec)
Peripheral	USB 1.1	SiS USB 1.1 Controller	Full	ohci_hcd
	USB 2.0	SiS USB 2.0 Controller	Full	ehci_hcd
	IEEE 1394 Firewire	Ricoh R5C832	Full	firewire_ohci
	Bluetooth	N/A (optional?)	?	?
	Webcam	Chicony USB2.0 1.3M UVC WebCam	?	?
	Fingerprint Reader	N/A
	Brightness Sensor	-	?	asus_laptop
	Info LEDs	-	?	asus_laptop

General Configuration

Wired network doesn't work perfectly by default. MTU need to be set to 1492 instead of the default 1500 to work. I don't know why. This problem happens with systemresc cd, Ubuntu and every Linux distribution I tried.

File/etc/conf.d/netWired Network

mtu_eth0="1492"

You have to create the /etc/init.d/net.eth0 symlink to /etc/init.d/net.lo and start it at boot by: rc-update add net.eth0 default. (You don't really need to add it to default boot level, because net.eth0 started by hotplug by default) But I noticed that if I use dracut to boot the system, the ip is fine, but the settings in /etc/conf.d/net is ignored!

Sound

The audio hardware is supported by the Intel HD Audio drivers:

Kernel configurationAudio Support

Device Drivers  --->
    <*> Sound card support  --->
        <*> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture  --->
            [*] PCI sound devices  --->
                <*> Intel HD Audio  --->
                    [*]   Build Realtek HD-audio codec support
                        [ ]     Build static quirks for Realtek codecs