Installing Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" on ASUS A6Rp
Last updated: 27 February 2008
General Hardware Specifications of ASUS A6Rp:
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Hardware Components
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Status under Linux
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Notes
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| Celeron M 420 @ 1.6 GHz |
Works |
No special procedure required during installation. |
| 15.4 WXGA+ TFT Display |
Works at 1280 x 800 resolution "out of the box" |
No special procedure required during installation |
| ATI Radeon Express 200M |
Works |
Download proprietary driver using the Restricted Drivers Manager |
| 1 GB, DDR2 RAM, 2 DIMMs |
Works |
No special procedure required during installation |
| 80 GB Ultra ATA Hard Drive |
Works |
No special procedure required during installation |
| No Floppy Drive |
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| Integrated Network Card - Realtek RTL 8139 |
Works |
No special procedure required during installation |
| Internal 56k Modem |
Not tested |
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| DVD+-RW Drive |
Works |
No special procedure required during installation |
| Broadcom 4318 AirForce One 54g Wireless
Networking |
Works with NetworkManager, used with WPA |
Download proprietary driver using the Restricted Drivers Manager |
| Lithium-Ion Battery |
Works |
No special procedure required during installation |
| Sound Card |
Works |
No special procedure required if using Kernel 2.6.x.
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This laptop is operating under Kernel version 2.6.22-14-generic
Basic Installation of Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon":
- Installing: this laptop requires the "hpet=disable" boot switch. Press F6 when booting from the LiveCD and include that in the boot command. It is carried over when installation is done. You might want to also change the /boot/grub/menu.lst file to reflect the "hpet=disable" for the "Recovery" boot option also.
- NOTE: if you have the latest BIOS (v 214) you do NOT need the "hpet=disable" kernel boot parameter
Setting up additional features for Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon"
- Turn on Sub-Pixel Smoothing in System -> Preferences -> Appearance-> Fonts
- To get 3D desktop running, "sudo apt-get install xserver-xgl (and optionally also, compizconfig-settings-manager). Reboot, and in a terminal "compiz --replace", then try System -> Preferences -> Appearances -> Visual Effects. I am using Normal and Extra successfully
- For CPU throttling, add p4-clockmod to /etc/modules (sudo gedit /etc/modules) and then run this command: "sudo chmod +s /usr/bin/cpufreq-selector", then add the CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor to the panel. It should give you the CPU speed. If you left-click it, you should be able to change the govenor. I use "performance" and "ondemand"
More Specific Information. Specific stuff such as:
- lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 5a31 (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller (rev 80)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 82)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller (rev 80)
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SB450 HDA Audio (rev 01)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge (rev 80)
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge (rev 80)
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev b3)
02:01.1 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 17)
02:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 08)
02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
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This is a good, solid laptop. It has travelled extensively with me. It is a bit on the heavy as it is a 15.4" screen lappy, but I wanted to watch DVDs on it, so opted for the bigger screen. The A6Rp is the super-budget model, and does not have a lot of bells and whistles, such as S-Video output or IEEE1394. However it does have a card reader for SD, MMC, and MS, which works beautifully