Asus G74 woes (suspend/hibernate; keyboard lights; etc)

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christofdeluca · Post by **christofdeluca** » Mon Feb 27, 2012 1:56 am

Just picked up a shiney new laptop, and I'm having problems making certain things work, as the title says, suspend/hibernate, the backlights on the keyboard, certain function keys, control+alt+delete, there's a small laundry list going on. If there's any gurus out there that can lend me a hand, I'd appreciate it!

ultraincognito · Post by **ultraincognito** » Mon Feb 27, 2012 1:08 pm

For a suspend to RAM I use the pm-utils and recommend you too.

christofdeluca · Post by **christofdeluca** » Mon Feb 27, 2012 4:10 pm

I just barely got pm-hibernate to work, there's a switch in the bios to keep powering the usb bus that was causing it to hang on hibernate. pm-suspend fails still.

sebB · Post by **sebB** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 5:39 pm

Some asus have bug with hibernation.

Try this, this has solve my problem and hibernation/suspend work fine

Create a file /etc/pm/sleep.d/20_custom-ehci_hcd

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#!/bin/sh
TMPLIST=/tmp/ehci-dev-list

case "${1}" in
        hibernate|suspend)
    echo -n '' > $TMPLIST
          for i in `ls /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ehci_hcd/ | egrep '[0-9a-z]+\:[0-9a-z]+\:.*$'`; do
              # Unbind ehci_hcd for first device XXXX:XX:XX.X:
               echo -n "$i" | tee /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ehci_hcd/unbind
           echo "$i" >> $TMPLIST
          done
        ;;
        resume|thaw)
    for i in `cat $TMPLIST`; do
              # Bind ehci_hcd for first device XXXX:XX:XX.X:
              echo -n "$i" | tee /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ehci_hcd/bind
    done
    rm $TMPLIST
        ;;
esac

chmod +x 20_custom-ehci_hcd

christofdeluca · Post by **christofdeluca** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 10:19 pm

Sweet! Works like a charm! You don't know how to get the keyboard backlight and the function keys working, do you?

sebB · Post by **sebB** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 11:10 pm

For hotkey enable "Asus Laptop Extras" as module in your kernel.

For keyboard backlight, try enabling "ASUS WMI Driver".

Look here http://acpi4asus.sourceforge.net/

christofdeluca · Post by **christofdeluca** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 11:30 pm

They both are enabled.

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mjolnir linux # cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep ASUS
CONFIG_USB_PEGASUS=m
CONFIG_ASUS_LAPTOP=m
CONFIG_ACPI_ASUS=m

The acpi4asus has been merged into the kernel since 2.6 something. And they don't load.

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mjolnir linux # modprobe asus_laptop
FATAL: Error inserting asus_laptop (/lib/modules/3.2.6-gentoo/kernel/drivers/platform/x86/asus-laptop.ko): No such device

sebB · Post by **sebB** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 10:26 am

Try enabling Asus Notebook WMI Driver in your kernel (CONFIG_ASUS_NB_WMI)

christofdeluca · Post by **christofdeluca** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 10:55 am

Ahh. Jeeze. It wasn't there on the list because I didn't have pci hotplugging enabled. I feel like a fool now. Thank you!@