ASUS Computers Ubuntu works well on.

I figured maybe. since there is a forum dedicated to ASUS PCs we should announce ones they work well on and any problems you may have with them and solutions as they are found, edited into the original post to keep the thread clean. I'll start.

ASUS G72GX laptop.

WORKS GREAT

Cons: the disable touchpad feature doesn't work. ----- this can be "fixed" following this thread -----http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10830417&postcount=11 -----You'll have to add your ACTUAL home folder in place of the ~ however.

Asus EeePC 900 Netbook

Works very well.

Notes:

• Touchpad is crazily sensitive to tap-to-click. One of the first things I do is to disable that feature.

• Need to install backport modules in Lucid for the wireless to work properly.

• Battery capacity indicator in Lucid is broken. It will indicate that the battery is almost ready to be discarded even when it's new. I disable that warning.

• Slow to boot in Natty. I don't know if that's specific to the machine or something more general.

Not sure if you want to know this as my machine is one I built myself but is ASUS mother boarded.

I run the full ATX ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO. It has the on-board ATI HD4200 grahics (just superb by the way) with sideport memory, dual core Althon X2 250 3GH processor and 4GB's Crucial ram. Western Digital 320GB HDD.

It runs 32bit and 64bit Linux Ubuntu 10.04LTS side by side faultlessly. Both versions are loaded with considerable software of every kind including first person shooter games.

It's great!

Works well with 10.04: 701SD, 900 Mic issue and wlan:r101, 1001PX problem solved in 11.04

R52X all fine in 11.04

AT3IONT-I dual core Atom motherboard. Works good except for the LAN port.

Yeah, I can get a USB LAN or a PCI-E LAN card, but I'm used to having a LAN work out of the box.

Tried both 10.04 & 11.04, no joy with either. Any ideas?

Desktop using asus m4a78t-e mobo, unlocked quadcore phenomII x 3 720 (stable, runs prime95 like boss), ati radeon hd 4870 1 gig, four gigs of mushkin ram, one terabyte seagate, standard dvd/cd

Desktop peripherals: type m (1994), decent/cheap logitech speakers and subwoofer, decent asus led monitor *(buying an led unit supporting 1080p soon).

Everything supported, works nice under ubuntu 10.10. Proprietary drivers do not work very well.

Asus 1215t "netbook": running ubuntu 10.10, ati 4200 *(?) gpu supported nicely, no problems with Nile platform.

AFAIK, ati radeon 4xxx series are supported pretty well out of the box (which wasn't the case roughly two years ago). I don't think ati 6xxx series are quite as well. Any news on 5xxx series?

Starfleet said: Not sure if you want to know this as my machine is one I built myself but is ASUS mother boarded.

I run the full ATX ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO. It has the on-board ATI HD4200 grahics (just superb by the way) with sideport memory, dual core Althon X2 250 3GH processor and 4GB's Crucial ram. Western Digital 320GB HDD.

It runs 32bit and 64bit Linux Ubuntu 10.04LTS side by side faultlessly. Both versions are loaded with considerable software of every kind including first person shooter games.

It's great!

M4A785-M Athlon II X2 245 (IGP ATI 4200)

6BG corsair xms2 800MHz

WD 640GB "Green" HDD

TSST ODD

How do you run 64-bit and 32-bitside by side? as a dual-boot or..?

asus k series laptops seem to work pretty well. Asus X58 Sabertooth works well with Lucid. The marvel sata drivers havent worked with maveric or natty. but otherwise, works quite well.

ASUS A2500H laptop 10.04.2LTS

It's an oldie.

george

Asus p5w dh deluxe

Need audio drivers for unbuntu 11.04

karrank% said: M4A785-M

Athlon II X2 245 (IGP ATI 4200)

6BG corsair xms2 800MHz

WD 640GB "Green" HDD

TSST ODD

How do you run 64-bit and 32-bitside by side? as a dual-boot or..?

Karrank, yeah...I had 32bit 10.04LTS on primary partition but needed to add some extra memory (from 2GB up to 4GB). 32Bit can't see above 3GB so loaded 64bit verison to see all 4GB's. Just made the 64bit disc and popped it in the DVD drive and allowed it to load as a dual boot. Absolutely brilliant it is too! Both versions heavily loaded with software and no problems.

Starfleet said: Karrank, yeah...I had 32bit 10.04LTS on primary partition but needed to add some extra memory (from 2GB up to 4GB). 32Bit can't see above 3GB so loaded 64bit verison to see all 4GB's. Just made the 64bit disc and popped it in the DVD drive and allowed it to load as a dual boot. Absolutely brilliant it is too! Both versions heavily loaded with software and no problems.

Thx Starfleet, I'm running the pae kernel to see all my 6GB--the only reason I'm staying w/32-bit is old printer & scanner--no confidence in 64-bit drivers being available for them. And the 64-bit flash thing for FF.

I'd wondered if a 32bit/64-bit dual-boot would be useful (didn't know how to properly search for it) so thanks for answering that for me!

ASUS N80Vn laptop - installed the x64 & x32 bit versions of Ubuntu 11.04 (at one point dual-boot with them) and it seems to be working just fine. I've added a 500GB drive and 4GB RAM and the x32 version automatically installed PAE so I can use all of that 4GB of RAM.

working well in my Asus A42J Intel Core i3 2.53Ghz n HD6470 but with some spoil.. got watermark (AMD Unsupported hardware):lolflag:

Motherboard ASUS P5B delux with ASUS WiFi AP Solo wireless LAN - wireless worked out of the box from Ubuntu 7.04 down to 11.04. X-Sensors works. Picks up motherboard fan speed and temperature as well as CPU temperature and fan speed. Audio works as well as the ASUS Array microphone that came with the WiFi edition of the motherboard.

regards.

Asus eeePC 1001HA. Ubuntu from 9.04 onwards working fairly well. 10.10 seems to be the best, with everything working perfectly. I did update to 11. Hated the new UI, but everything still seems to be working.

Asus P5GL-TMX 2gb ram,3ghz cpu,80gb HD,--nothing special really!10.4 upgrade to 11.4 just having issues with usb memory card reader,i got a cd with it,dos windows only!need to find a scripted way around it i think!

Desktop e/w ASUS M3A78-EM motherboard

• Ubuntu Lucid LTS (with Natty, Fedora15, Puppy, PartedMagic, WinXP multiboot)

• 500 GB SATA2 hard drive, no issues

• built in HD 3200 graphics, Azalia RS780 audio, Realtek GigE no issues
• USB2 ports work well with newer Seagate external HD

• HDMI and DisplayPort video, can't test yet

• Epson 1240U scanner, no issues IIRC

• Canon i550 printer - FAIL! Gotta keep XP around ...

• external firewire DVD burner, no issues

BTW I gave up on the Linux derived 'Express Gate' - very flaky, only installs from Windoze and takes up f@#$&^% ~300 MB !! Instead, I use Puppy Linux for full function 'quicker' access.

Older computer:

Motherboard: ASUS P5VD1-X, Socket LGA775 Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz

All Ubuntu versions (8.10, 9.04, 9.10, 10.04, 10.10, 11.04) including Linux Mint editions(7, 8, 9, 10, 11). Gnome 3 capable:)

I have a ASUS A53XI241SV-SL(i5 processor) its works nice. I ofrm playing games on it.

I have an older custom desktop build (>2 years) with an ASUS P5Q motherboard and it has been a dream with Ubuntu. Unfortunately I was a total Ubuntu rookie when I did the build and went for ATI over NVIDIA for the graphics card, which has caused some problems over time.

Anyone have experience with the EEE PC 1215n, I'm thinking of picking one of these up from my local tech store and throwing Lubuntu on it?

http://ncix.com/products/?sku=55627&vpn=1215N-PU17-BK&manufacture=ASUS

I installed Natty 11.04 with Unity on:

M70Vn : everything works fine, out of the box, including function keys.

UL20A : everything works with the exception of function keys. Please see my post below for more details:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1775059

I upgraded my older HP a1700n MB with a new M4A88TD-M/USB3. MS reached out and disabled the Vista key to make it "not genuine". This was the last straw with MS. I did the WUBI install (64bit) in the 32bit Vista and have had very few hiccups. I had to change my Logitech webcam from a C310 to the Pro 9000 and my little Connectland USB 2.0 plugin isn't playing very nicely. Other than that, I've been on 11.04 for about 6 weeks and couldn't be happier. BTW, the increase in performance between the old MB with an Athlon X2 and the new MB with a Phenom II X4 wasn't very noticeable in Vista. The performance in Ubuntu - 64bit is much faster.

I have a 2 year old Asus K40IN-A1 on which I have no problems (at least with 10.04 and 10.10, 32-bit).

However, do NOT buy an Asus with the Nvidia hybrid switch. As others have pointed out, it's completely broken. I bought a UL80vt and it was so difficult to setup I finally gave up, uninstalled Ubuntu, and gave it away with Windows 7 on it. Completely useless. Until 11.04 works out it's kinks and Nvidia releases a driver for the hybrid switches (not likely), stay away from the UL[X] line.

Asus N50NV with 10.04.2 64bit dual boot with Windows Vista, perfect.

I have the ASUS M2NPV-VM with AM2. The board is no longer marketed. Features were Firewire in and HDTV signal out. Many dissatisfied users trying this moBoard with various flavors of Windows.

I had a computer factory assemble this box. They added a front panel for USB / audio. nVidia geForce 6100. The computer came delivered with MiniDOS -- I kept hitting the power button not realizing the >$ prompt takes milliseconds to load and run the computer. Drake-64 Ubuntu installed in 11 minutes flat. Every Ubuntu has run on the machine without problems.

No problems. I am very fond of the firewire 1394 capture and I hope this board lasts forever.

I liked the ASUS / AMD combination so well, I ordered a factory deal with the M4A87TD / AMD Phenom-64 hexacore. Intially, some problems with the Radeon GPU and that is Radeon driver issue. The Radeon was garbling some of the Ubuntu GUI.

pistacoppu said: Asus N50NV with 10.04.2 64bit dual boot with Windows Vista, perfect.

Asus N50VN with 11.04 32bit dualboot with Windows 7 Professional 64bit. perfect (multimedia keys even work out of the box, as where windowze fails with it :| )

By the way, in every other computer i've worked with ubuntu on, there were no problems whatsoever, and they weren't all Asus branded/Asus Based computers ;)

asus 1015px works well with 10.10 32bit desktop edition. Wasnt able to find a ubuntu preloaded version of the 1015px in my region, thus i have to install it myself. It is pretty easy. Totally rid of the windows starter 7 that was preloaded with the machine and just load ubuntu 10.10 32 bit as the maximum ram load is only 2 gig.

Irihapeti said: Asus EeePC 900 Netbook

Works very well.

Notes:

• Touchpad is crazily sensitive to tap-to-click. One of the first things I do is to disable that feature.
• Need to install backport modules in Lucid for the wireless to work properly.
• Battery capacity indicator in Lucid is broken. It will indicate that the battery is almost ready to be discarded even when it's new. I disable that warning.
• Slow to boot in Natty. I don't know if that's specific to the machine or something more general.

Works well here to and I also recognize that Natty 11.04 are slower to boot than [COLOR=Silver]Hardy[/COLOR] Lucid10.04LTS, but wake up from hibernate is faster i Natty than from Hardy.

EEEPC 1201T runs with Meerkat and Natty out of the Box. Lucid later kernels would have wifi working.

Natty has a bit of a caveat: Wifi Realtek card drops out. The 1201T has a Radeon card.

Best results? See this post: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1782016

maestrobwh1 said: EEEPC 1201T runs with Meerkat and Natty out of the Box. Lucid later kernels would have wifi working.

Natty has a bit of a caveat: Wifi Realtek card drops out. The 1201T has a Radeon card.

Best results? See this post: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1782016

you are right. I ment Lucid not Hardy.

Success with Ubuntu 9.04, 9.10, 10.10 and 11.04 Asus eeePC 1001HA

Havent used ethernet. Had difficulties with the wifi in 10.04 Everything else working out of the box and a pleasure to use after W7Starter.

ASUS K42JR (X42JR-VX141V)

i7 Q740M @ 1.73GHz (without TurboBoost) 500GB HDD 2GB DDR3 RAM with an additional slot for one more stick (stock laptop) AMD Mobility Radeon HD5470 1GB

What works (as of 10.10, kernel versions greater than 2.6.35++) Everything, except for graphics for those who use the ATI binary driver blob and are at kernel versions 2.6.37 and up. Kernel versions 2.6.38 and 2.6.39 all have their own patches to apply so be careful.

Alternately, one can try using the FOSS driver but I haven't tested this machine with it yet.

Asus K40ij

Touchpad= Works fine Ethernet= Works FIne Wifi= Works Fine Sound= A bug when you plug in your headphone Graphics= Work Fine ATK/Keyboard Shortcuts= Dont work, i still haven't figured out how i can enable these Overall: everything works fine apart from that bug in sound. Also, the temperature of the laptop increases a lot while on 11.04, they hover around 70-75'C.

Works fine on a K61IC. Unity works great with the Nouveau driver. The nvidia proprietary drivers cause the X window manager to eventually slow down and then freeze though (less so with the latest driver from nvidia installed). I don't know why, maybe Ubuntu is doing something that the proprietary driver conflicts with.

Asus Z53Jc laptop; everything works OOTB.

bennyroger said: Works well with 10.04:

701SD, 900 Mic issue and wlan:r101, 1001PX problem solved in 11.04

R52X all fine in 11.04

Add 1005HA. Everything works fine with 10.04, except power management. Ubuntu runs a few degrees hotter than XP (I dual boot), even using Jupiter. Since I live in a blisteringly hot country, every degree hurts.

Cheers

Pratik

pratikk said: Add 1005HA. Everything works fine with 10.04, except power management. Ubuntu runs a few degrees hotter than XP (I dual boot), even using Jupiter. Since I live in a blisteringly hot country, every degree hurts.

Cheers

Pratik

If it is running hot, it also means you are using more juice which is a bummer for you. I will say that on my asus 1201T, I installed jupiter and immediately removed it. I use Kubuntu and it's power saving features were conflicting. Without jupiter, I was not throttled down to 1/2 my cpu's clock speed, but was left with the ondemand govorner and battery life was no different for better response and the fan kicked on LESS. You might want to try without jupiter?

I think the latter two 'buntus seem to have better power management because my battery lasts longer than it did with Lucid.

XP was the OS that was most thrifty on the battery but I tried Meerkat on a usb (as a frugal install) and noticed this and thought it might just be because the HD was not spinning. I installed Natty on the partition were Lucid was and noticed that even with running that, power can last about the same as it did in XP.

Nettop Asus EB 1012 (with Nvidia ION)

[img]http://www.netbookreviews.net/wp-content/uploads/ASUS_EB1012.jpg[/img]

Works well with 10.04 + >>

Makes a great media center and runs just fine as a desktop machine. Needs more grunt for intensive graphics apps (Inkscape/GiMP) and video encoding

Issues:

1. Wireless/Ethernet sometimes needs switching on by shutting down and removing power lead
2. Wireless can be a bit flaky
3. Sound / Volume output a bit low when not using pulse

maestrobwh1 said: If it is running hot, it also means you are using more juice which is a bummer for you. I will say that on my asus 1201T, I installed jupiter and immediately removed it. I use Kubuntu and it's power saving features were conflicting. Without jupiter, I was not throttled down to 1/2 my cpu's clock speed, but was left with the ondemand govorner and battery life was no different for better response and the fan kicked on LESS. You might want to try without jupiter?

I think the latter two 'buntus seem to have better power management because my battery lasts longer than it did with Lucid.

Thanks, maestro. I now see that my 1005HA is running three power managers all together: gnome, xfce and jupiter. It's like a car with three carburettors. Do you -- does anyone? -- know how to disable (not uninstall) these one by one, so that I can reach the most efficient manager by elimination?

BTW, installing/uninstaling Jupiter seemed to make no difference, either to temperature or battery time, but switching Jupiter's power modes did.

Thanks

Pratik

The Eee PC 901 works well. There are a few things that are bad, though:

• You need to blacklist the old RT2860 wireless driver.
• The battery indicator is broken (says my battery has a low capacity when it does not)
• The Fn volume keys are a bit erratic (when you tap the up key, it goes straight to full volume)

1215N Eee pc Ubuntu 10.10

Install Jupiter Install bumblebee for Optimus support Write script for two finger scroll and right click

Everything else works out of the box. 10.10 rocks on this little dual core netbook and battery life is about 6 hours of normal use with compiz enabled.

Has anyone tried 11.04 on the Asus 1018 (p or pb variant) netbook? That's the one I'm thinking of picking up to dual boot with Ubuntu.

bennyroger said: Works well with 10.04:

701SD, 900 Mic issue and wlan:r101, 1001PX problem solved in 11.04

R52X all fine in 11.04 I have the 1001PX preloaded with windows. Think I can replace with ubuntu?

Asus U46e

- Touch pad detected as logitech mouse, can not configure touchpad settings - Fn keys do not work - No audio on some websites like youtube

posted fixes here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1812252

all works great now, very happy with the laptop!

I've been using an ASUS Eee Box B202 since it was first released. It has a Ralink 2860 wireless card and works 100% fine with Ubuntu.

I've tried OS X, Windows 7 and all I can say is Ubuntu has a very, very impressive series of features that overshadow those OS's very easily. I particularly love Synaptic which makes it so much easier to update things.

I see OS X trying to imitate Compiz in Lions release, a poor attempt IMO. Windows 7 has nothing that Microsoft produces for similar effect although it's a mature platform so it SHOULD. I expect Ubuntu to only get better while the others get worse.

Just the other day I was trying to extract across a multiple RAR archive, in OS X not even UnRarX would do it! I had to copy the files over to a USB thumb drive and do it using PeaZip on Ubuntu. Go figure huh!

I think by now everyone knows the B202 works though :-Z

wandored said: I have the 1001PX preloaded with windows. Think I can replace with ubuntu?

I use the same netbook, and it runs perfectly fine. The only problem is battery life

netbook 1015PE with 11.04 works fine and is much faster than 10.10 (also 10.10 has problems mounting external devices)

Only 11.04 odd problem is that google autopredict disables the mouse completely! :S that one has me completely foxed.

My config. Asus MA78TMLE running AMD Phenom II X2 unlocked to X4 using bios.. ATI 4800 HD 512 MB 4GB DDR3 It is working fine.. No issues.. Just one thing, my display is 1376x768 in windows 7. But i dont see the same resolution in ATI contril centre in Ubuntu..

Any help, or please guide me where to post.

finnbuntu said: The Eee PC 901 works well. There are a few things that are bad, though:

• You need to blacklist the old RT2860 wireless driver.
• The battery indicator is broken (says my battery has a low capacity when it does not)
• The Fn volume keys are a bit erratic (when you tap the up key, it goes straight to full volume)

Wireless is flaky, I usually just hit fn+f2 twice on bootup and is fine. Not problems with battery or volume keys, they work perfectly. Am using eeepc 901. Which bios revision are you using?

Works good on the Asus X23F for both Ubuntu 10.10 and Ubuntu 11.04. The only problems you might encounter is the following

Both -No sound from speakers or headphones (If you are lucky, you can get sound from speakers, but still none from headphones) -Voice recording won't work

Ubuntu 10.10 -failed to get i915 symbols, graphics turbo disabled error on boot

Ubuntu 11.04 -Chances of notebook "hanging" when left unattended for too long (1 hour ++). Mouse can move but you'll notice the time is frozen.

Asus EeePc 1002HA

Everything works out of the box with 10.04 and 11.04.

It is advised to run with the full 2gb of ram.

11.04 Works on Asus EeePc 1018p out of the box. Currently running it on 1gb of ram though I plan on upgrading it as soon as the new one comes in.

Asus g50vt notebook with natty

Everything running smoothly after some configuring here and there!

ASUS N53SN laptop 750 Gb SATA HDD 4Gb DDR3 memory, room for more On-board Intel graphics, and then an nVidia GeForce GT550M as well. Intel Core i7 processor 2630 QM, 2.0 GHz

Originally shipped with Win 7 Premium 64 bit.

HDD failed, and I had to reformat. Left Windows DVDs back home in the US (oops). Loaded up Ubuntu 11.04

Seems like everything worked OOTB EXCEPT the following:

1. The multimedia keys do not work, nor does most of the function keys (cannot disable the touch pad)
2. Does not recognize the nVidia card. It shows that there is a driver for it when you run Update Drivers, but it does not allow you to enable or select that card.
3. USB 3.0 not working at all. USB 2.0 ports all work fine. This it the biggest issue I have :(

I've also noticed that it seems that the ethernet NIC card was having issues maintaining steady speed. There were some updates pushed out couple days ago, and I've noticed better connectivity with the onboard NIC card.

Asus EEE-PC 1015PEM worked perfectly out of the box.

ASUS 1015B works splendid on Natty.

Asus M3A78-CM AMD 780V Socket AM2+

No complaints, as with the other 20+ Asus Motherboards I've built up

Flotter said: AT3IONT-I dual core Atom motherboard. Works good except for the LAN port.

Yeah, I can get a USB LAN or a PCI-E LAN card, but I'm used to having a LAN work out of the box.

Tried both 10.04 & 11.04, no joy with either. Any ideas?

I'm able to use the onboard NIC with Lucid and Natty (32-bit pae), perhaps because I don't use the Network Manager. A 'Link-Down Problem' with the r8169 modul seems to be well known. Just google for " r8169 " , for example:

http://adam.rosi-kessel.org/weblog/2008/06/21/a-much-simpler-fix-for-the-r8169-link-down-problem.

btw: HDMI Sound works since Natty, but I still can't get the fans controlled.

kyteflyer said: Asus eeePC 1001HA. Ubuntu from 9.04 onwards working fairly well. 10.10 seems to be the best, with everything working perfectly. I did update to 11. Hated the new UI, but everything still seems to be working.

I'm getting no zoom on the touchpad - and there are random occasions when the computer freezes with my 1000h - with 1 GB RAM, and using 11.04 Ubuntu. I do wonder if I am using the best graphics driver - any tips on that?

I'm running an ASUS EeePC 1015T netbook, with the AMD Nile V105 and integrated ATI Radeon HD 4250 graphics. It came with 1GB RAM but I upgraded it to 2GB *(it can take up to 4GB... advantage of the AMD chipset it's running).* On it, I run the pre-installed Windows 7 Starter and _[COLOR=DarkOrange]Ubuntu 11.04 Natty[/COLOR]_ in a dual-boot environment.

11.04, whether running GNOME 2 or Unity, works very very nicely and I run it far more than I run Windows. All my function keys and buttons work on it right out of the box, as do my wireless LAN and ethernet ports for connecting to the internet. My touchpad works perfectly too, though I have to go into my mouse settings and change from edge-scrolling to multi-finger for scrolling, but that's just my preference.

However, I have found 2 issues running Ubuntu on this model of netbook:

1) Ubuntu 11.04 seems to use more battery than Windows 7 Starter does, whether I'm running Ubuntu Classic or Unity (2D and 3D), even when I add Jupiter and Jupiter EeePC support. I can get up to 6 hours in Windows 7, but only up to 4 hours in Ubuntu. That's only of a minor nature as I'm usually not far from an electrical outlet and can run on AC most of the time. But on long-extended trips... it matters. Not sure why the less resource-intensive Ubuntu would use more battery power than software-bloated Windows.

2) The ATI proprietary driver seems to have poor performance. This became extremely apparent when I was running it while watching YouTube videos and other streaming videos, as they were so extremely choppy. The open-source driver performs much better for those than the proprietary one does. It seemed to run my desktop environment just fine, but once I started playing streaming videos *(I haven't tried any movies from AVI's, MP4's, or Matroska)*, it really sucked. So I went right back to using the open-source driver that came with Ubuntu. I suspect it might be an Adobe Flash issue *(not sure if I had already installed Flash. I know I hadn't installed the Flash-Aid plug-in)*, but I've also heard that ATI's Linux drivers basically suck compared to NVidia's.

I could find the time to give the proprietary driver another go, and do a full test of everything I normally run, and see how it runs. Does anyone else have problems running the proprietary drivers on a netbook/laptop/desktop with integrated ATI graphics?

_*Updates: *_[COLOR=Blue][I]I did another test running the proprietary fglrx Catalyst driver, and here is what I've found so far: I actually got better battery consumption using the proprietary driver over the open-source one. With the open-source, I got maybe 4 hours at most. With the proprietary driver, I'm getting up to 5 hours. That's a pretty good improvement, but still not quite the 6 hours I'm getting in Windows 7 Starter (which doesn't have Aero)... and is what the manufacturer's specs are. But, that was me running Compiz like I usually do. I didn't try it in Unity 2D nor in Ubuntu Classic (effects disabled).

Advantage aside, I found that my Compiz effects seem to run a little bit slower in Ubuntu Classic (I didn't try it in Unity as it also runs Compiz), not much, but still slower. In addition, I ran into the same problem with streaming videos on websites like YouTube, which all use Flash animation. I even ran my Flash-Aid again to make sure everything was up to snuff, and I still get very choppy Flash videos. BUT... my avi's, mp4's, and mkv's all run flawlessly.

Bottom line... the fglrx driver sucks at running Adobe Flash, and is a bit slower with Compiz. But it has much better power management and plays my movies just fine :) But I do visit YouTube and other sites for streaming videos, so I'm back to the open-source driver. [/I][/COLOR]

Recent build. Everything works great OOTB. No BIOS customization needed. Power-on to logged in and running: Ubuntu 10.10 ~25sec, WinXP SP3 ~2min Still working on installing add-on software packages, but so far it works great!

Asus M4N68T-M V2 Mobo in Micro Center Power-Spec case AMD Phenom II X2 560 Black Edition 4GB Crucial DDR3 Dual Drive/Dual Boot Ubuntu 10.10/WinXP SP3 10.10 on 250GB Seagate Barracuda WinXP on 120GB Seagate Barracuda 500GB Seagate Barracuda storage 500GB Seagate BarracudaES storage 2TB Seagate Barracuda Green storage 640GB Seagate FreeAgent Extreme USB desktop drive Teac Multi-card reader from an old Dell box LG DVD-RW Hitachi DVD-CDRW

Asus G53SX-A1 Ubuntu installs fine. Some minor tweaking needs to be done:

Video: 1) Install Drivers Manually following http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9211609&postcount=35 2) Add a auto-update script to automatically reinstall kernel modules upon kernel update/replacement: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=835573 OR 1) Instead simply add drivers from Nvidia from ppa: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1771806 (BOTH WAYS WORK)

WLAN:

wget http://wireless.kernel.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2 tar -xjvf compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2 cd into_folder_that_was_created ./scripts/driver-select ath9k make sudo make install sudo make unload sudo modprobe ath9k

source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1481983

Brightness Control Function buttons: 1) Go to Nvidia settings and save config into xorg.conf 2) In xorg.conf in the "Device" section for your GPU add

Option "RegistryDwords" "EnableBrightnessControl=1"

restart X and brightness works.

Enable Suspend 1)Follow steps from http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9180298&postcount=7 followed by http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9180693&postcount=8 very easy :)

Volume Control button: 1)http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10997488&postcount=9

Keyboard backlight control buttons: 1) Install libnotify-bin 2) Install asus-kbd-backlight_0.1~ppa5_i386.deb file at https://launchpad.net/~flozz/+archive/flozz/+build/2018614 from https://launchpad.net/asus-keyboard-backlight

Install Bluetooth Drivers 1)Install drivers following http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=11155156&postcount=4 both laptops use the same chip.

Card reader Have not gotten a chance to use it yet so I don't know. But I suspect that if it is not working this will help: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=11065709&postcount=7

Camera Sorry I don't know and don't use it.

This will mostly apply to pretty much the entire line of G73 (some G73 use ATI video cards though) and G53 series of laptops including G73SW G73Jw G53SX G53SW G53Jw. G73Jh uses ATI video chip. I also suspect that above will apply to G74SX. Some of this may apply to G51Jx as well.

Additional sources: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1791081

dreamslides said: I've been using an ASUS Eee Box B202 since it was first released. It has a Ralink 2860 wireless card and works 100% fine with Ubuntu.

I've tried OS X, Windows 7 and all I can say is Ubuntu has a very, very impressive series of features that overshadow those OS's very easily. I particularly love Synaptic which makes it so much easier to update things.

I see OS X trying to imitate Compiz in Lions release, a poor attempt IMO. Windows 7 has nothing that Microsoft produces for similar effect although it's a mature platform so it SHOULD. I expect Ubuntu to only get better while the others get worse.

Just the other day I was trying to extract across a multiple RAR archive, in OS X not even UnRarX would do it! I had to copy the files over to a USB thumb drive and do it using PeaZip on Ubuntu. Go figure huh!

I think by now everyone knows the B202 works though :-Z

Sorry, I've been in and around Unix and Linux for something like 24 years and for home use, I believe Linux is still not ready.

Ubuntu 10.10 works great on Asus Eee Pc 1001Ha

Asus M4A88TD-V EVO/USB with AMD x4 965 Black. Absolutely no problems with anything.

1005PEB 11.04 Works like a dream. 11.10 everything worked fine after 3 restarts except Banshee. Banshee freezes almost immediatly and when going into video/music file and play but no control at all. Back to 11.04 which works fine.

I've just installed Ubuntu 11.10 on my Asus Eee PC 1215B. Out of the box, everything is working very well, and I haven't encountered any problems yet.

I'm new to the site but not a noob. I built a cpu using Asus mobo M3N78-VM with AMD phenom II x2 550 chip and 4g of Kingston ram with a Corsair GS650 power supply due to having a limited budget at the time and little resources i couldn't be happier running Ubunutu 10.10 x86 64 w/KDE 4.4 desktop. Everything works great!

I have successfully put a clean install of Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot 11.10 on my *Asus EeePC 1000h*.

I no longer have the issues I had with 11.04 such as losing wireless functionality after using suspend.

But I keep getting kernel panics on it !!!!! https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/869502

But Leann Ogasawara is looking into it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHlu0KdQUKI

You're going to have to forgive me in advance for this question, because I'm very new to Ubuntu, and new OS in general, but if my Asus 1018p worked perfectly with 11.04, can I expect it to work well with 11.10 too?

Edit- 11.10 works fine with my Asus 1018p. It's a little slower than the 11.04, but I'm trying to fix that now.

Asus N53SV-S1830X Intel Core i7 - 2670QM 2.2GHz, 8GB RAM 750GB Intel HD3000 Graphics Card + NVidia GeForce 540M CUDA 1GB

Ubuntu 11.10 is super on this laptop, i got the laptop last week and it was coincidence that ubuntu released 11.10. The first thing i did is replace the "Other OS" and put ubuntu on everything worked super except for the following:

=D> big ups to all working on ubuntu 11.10 is sooooo much better, it so much smoother. I'm not sure if its this laptop but the combination is awesome. also looks great unity working so well, way better than 11.04. On my Toshiba i had some issues with displaying Natty 11.04 even tho it had good graphic card still had some issues. anyway just need to get Nvidia Graphics card working well then all is good.

• hibernate & suspend
• minor graphic glitch but its fine wen i reboot.
• Nvidia graphic card drivers didn't work after installing them, therefore i had install bumblebee, have a look at this thread here...http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1862400
• Headphone jack not working - built in speaker works fine but when i plugin headphones there's no sound

man it also works for my K 43 E accept that kind of minor that wouldn't suspend after I closed the screen

NX Hades said: Desktop using asus m4a78t-e mobo, unlocked quadcore phenomII x 3 720 (stable, runs prime95 like boss), ati radeon hd 4870 1 gig, four gigs of mushkin ram, one terabyte seagate, standard dvd/cd

Desktop peripherals: type m (1994), decent/cheap logitech speakers and subwoofer, decent asus led monitor *(buying an led unit supporting 1080p soon).

Everything supported, works nice under ubuntu 10.10. Proprietary drivers do not work very well.

Asus 1215t "netbook": running ubuntu 10.10, ati 4200 *(?) gpu supported nicely, no problems with Nile platform.

AFAIK, ati radeon 4xxx series are supported pretty well out of the box (which wasn't the case roughly two years ago). I don't think ati 6xxx series are quite as well. Any news on 5xxx series?

The 5670 Radeon HD works and there are all green yes for unity support.

By the way I am running on an Asus M4A88T-V EVO/USB3 and the only 3 things I have had trouble with is the core unlocker and the AMD X4 640 Athlon II 3.0 GHz, the Sata ports for my DVD-RAM drives they keep switching sr0 and sr1 when I use sound-juicer, and my Apple Keyboard does not enable hotkeys by default.

my specs AMD Athlon II X4 640 3.0 GHz Processor 8 GB Kingston RAM 750 GB HDD that is getting full fast especially the / partition Saphire Raedon HD 5670 Video Card 2 DVD-RAM drives 5 SATA internal 1 SATA external 1 Firewire port 2 USB 3.0 4 USB 2.0 2 Front USB 1.1 500W PSU Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Up to 7.1 DD Surround sound Acer H203H LCD Monitor 1 USB Optical Mouse

Works great on my g53sx-a1 with minor tweaks :)

No significant problems what-so-ever with Ubuntu Oneiric 11.10 on my Asus 1215N netbook. The only issue was I had to update bios from Asus before I could boot with 8GB ram.

Hibernate does not hibernate but just shuts down the machine.

Fn keys all work (Screen dimming, volume, etc). Sleep works. All ACPI power functions work. Battery estimates are accurate at ~4 hours. Machine specs report 7hrs so I am thinking I have to tweak the dual video cards with bumblebee or something. I have had issues with ACPI with earlier versions Ubuntu on previous machines causing all sorts of power drain problems.

Sound works 100%. headphones are fine.

Video works fine. I had no issues with screen resolution which I have experienced in earlier versions on different systems. I am not familiar with this dual video concept so I am not sure if I am running the Nvidia gpu or just the onboard Intel graphics.

I even chose to encrypt my home directory in the Ubuntu installation menu. That works flawless.

Overall I am impressed with Oneiric and the Unity desktop on this machine. I always felt Gnome was clunky. Unity works quite nicely on the smaller screen of a netbook. I actually prefer this Asus over my wife's Macbook Air although I gain a certain amount of satisfaction from using opensource.

I have an Asus N61JQ notebook and it works great on:

• 10.04 Lucid Lynx and 10.1 Maverick Meerkat;
• 11.04 Natty Narwhal and if upgraded to 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot;
• 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot fresh install as a graphic card driver know issue.

I've read the whole posts and no one is talking about U3 series. How can it be possible? Is a very bad laptop or something? :S

I have an X35S ( = U31SD) and don't work properly:

But on the contrary, I'm not having problems with the fan or the sound. Other non-newbie problems like the NVIDIA card not working well or ethernet I think I could'nt identify even if I tried.

• some Fn functions (such as F1 (sleep), F2 (wifi), F9 (mousepad), the numbers...)
• the suspend function (haven't tried on hibernate, didn't dare)
• mic (sometimes)
• brightness (when connected only to the battery, it changes the brightness foolishly)

By the way, do you recommend me to try some of the solutions posted for these problems even if the laptop model is not the same? (I mean, if somebody had an Asus A series and fixed a problem, should I try the same solution?)

what kind of pc? Lutron Lighting Control Dealer

Ubuntu 11.10 on G74SX works great. Tweaks done: Install suspend/resume script (link). Hint: Do a fresh or replacement install, do not perform an upgrade!

When I upgraded from 11.04, it resulted in a weird installation, Irritating stuff such as:

• Shutdown through the GUI resulted in a logout
• active kernel 2.6.x but header files for 3.0
• nVidia module active but not in use. It was quite a headache to get it active, but then...
• no glx
• no video just sound during video playback (totem and vlc)
• only my usual user and the guest account could login through the GUI. When logging in to other accounts (old and just created), it would just bounce back to the login screen.

So I did not want to put any more time into this and instead, to make it work I did a replacement install from USB and created new accounts instead of re-using the old users' home directories. Remember to do backups!

Result: everything important works perfectly :)

x53s (re:K53s) is so far good out of the box with 64bit 11.10. Quad core i7 will be the only issue & maybe the cool tech acpi stuff: came here to see any ideas on. Ima GDE kina' guy: the shell installed fine, my home dir transfered pretty well: had to do a little clean up. I've already got most of the function keys to work. Have the num lock already on so my number pad is working (just need to kill that warning). When you install, watch the drive and go into gpart to resize: my 640g drive was split in two w/ 300 windoze 300 data and the windoze restore disk sitting in the one spot. I had no problem killing the data drive & resizing the windoze drive to 100g (for netfix & programs that don't run on xover & those pesky bios updates). Double yr swap vs memory (sorry, gotta' tell the kids this) and part the rest as root (/). Too bad Asus doesn't certify more hardware: this baby seems to love running Ubuntu. As for the new DE, Unity is great for noobs and netbooks, but for road warriors we should have a choice at install. I'm still spinning on Unity confs on other boxes: its easy yet hard to customize so far. Just my 1/50 of a dollar... but I've seen many desktops come and go.

My trusty ASUS G50V.

I'm attached to it - kinda like dad loves his Camaro...

Asus eeePC 701 (4gb SSD) Ubuntu 11.10

There is a tweak to the install process to get it to install in 4gb.(search for ubuntu 11.10 eeepc 701). After install I used ubuntu software center to remove LibreOffice and everything else I think I can do without. I also go into "mouse and touchpad" in "system settings" and "disable touchpad while typeing". Then I installed abiword and gnumeric, though I doubt I'll use them much. Mostly I use the text editor. In day to day use, I use firefox to read yahoo mail and facebook and CNN, etc. Loading firefox is a little sluggish but once it is loaded, browsing seems as fast as my Dell Laptop with windows 7 and internet explorer. I intend to use fbreader which I've used with previous releases, but haven't checked out in Oneric yet. I've installed Skype, but seems when I activate my camera the other party can't hear me speak. When I turn my video off other party can hear me ok. I know skype used to work with Xandros.

I can watch Hulu--video is a little jerky. No problems with youtube or cnn videos.

I've also installed the same distro on a class 10 8gb sd card. In this case, no tweaks needed. No particular space saving measures required either. The downside is that booting is very slow -- around two minutes ( and a lot of that time you have a blank screen. ) Loading programs is a little slower than on the 4GB internal SSD, as well.

Unity really makes good use of the small screen. The f11 full screen feature and the <control> - or <contro> + feature in firefox is also good for getting the most out of the small screen.

I have an Asus EEE PC 1018pb which seemed to work 100% fine on 11.04 (never noticed any issues). However internet is unusable on 11.10. Wifi connects fine but after a few minutes the internet stop working (Wifi stays connected the whole time but the internet doesn't work). A reboot gets it going again but then it always dies after a few mins.

I don't know how to fix this so if anyone knows I would be very grateful also would be interested to know if other people are having the same problem. I noticed it right after upgrading to 11.10 but then I also tried a clean install and that has not fixed it either. :(

wollac said: I have an Asus EEE PC 1018pb which seemed to work 100% fine on 11.04 (never noticed any issues). However internet is unusable on 11.10. Wifi connects fine but after a few minutes the internet stop working (Wifi stays connected the whole time but the internet doesn't work). A reboot gets it going again but then it always dies after a few mins.

I don't know how to fix this so if anyone knows I would be very grateful also would be interested to know if other people are having the same problem. I noticed it right after upgrading to 11.10 but then I also tried a clean install and that has not fixed it either. :(

I think you may get a bettar awnser if you ask in the section hardware http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=332 and in the question also made a list of your hardware by this command in the terminal:

lspci

And post the print-out, specially the ethernet adapter. In that case even people who not have the exact same computer as you, may awnser better/ cheers

Running 11.10 unity 32bit on a 1011PX Eeepc seashell. No problems - all working out of the box**. Using Jupiter I reckon actual battery life is about 8 hours.

**The Asus spec says it has stereo speakers which mine doesn't, also Bluetooth, which mine doesn't! This isn't a Ubuntu thing, its exactly the same in W7 as preinstalled. The stereo headphone socket works fine as does the mono speaker.

Ubuntu 10.04/10 and 11.04/10 work pretty well on ASUS Eee PC 1005PE:D

Google Search Results for "Hardware runs better without windows":

About 73,000,000 results (0.23 seconds)

I'm running Lubuntu 11.10 on an Asus Eee PC X101. It is working splendidly.

I've read reports of earlier versions of Lubuntu or Ubuntu on the X101 which say there are streaming video problems, or sound problems, or slow speed. I've not experienced any of these.

yeah37 said: Ubuntu 10.04/10 and 11.04/10 work pretty well on ASUS Eee PC 1005PE:D

Confirm.

I need a bit tweak for backlight (see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1879080 ) and for the internal mic (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1805889) but after that, no problems at all.

wollac said: I have an Asus EEE PC 1018pb which seemed to work 100% fine on 11.04 (never noticed any issues). However internet is unusable on 11.10. Wifi connects fine but after a few minutes the internet stop working (Wifi stays connected the whole time but the internet doesn't work). A reboot gets it going again but then it always dies after a few mins.

Could be this one: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1888681

Tracked as https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/836250

HTH

Asus 1005HAB:

Pros- Great for running microsoft office, and most windows programs via wine

• good for testing code in it, and easy to reinstall ubuntu to the machine if something goes wrong

Cons- mic built into webcam doesnt work well with video chat (other user cant hear you)

• doesnt run steam well
• low frame rate with all major video games

I have an ASUS N61JV-X2 notebook PC with Crucial 8 gigabytes of DDR3 1,066 MHz SDRAM and an Intel 2nd Generation 2.5" 34nm MLC NAND FLASH X25-M 160 gigabyte Solid State Drive. I use Ubuntu 11.10 64 bit. Everything works right out of the box including Nvidia GeForce GT 325M GPU and Nvidia Optimus with the Bumblebee 3.0 project installed. I even got my ASUS USB-BT211 Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR dongle to work. I also got my Amazon Kindle 3G + Wi-Fi Classic with keyboard to work. My Seagate FreeAgent Desk 1.5 terabyte USB 2 external hard disk drive works too. My Kingston DataTraveler HyperX 128 gigabyte Super Speed USB 3 thumb drive works as well. I also have a HeadRoom Total BitHead and that works as well. I have an AdvanCED USB 3.0 Hub that works too. Finally, my Resolution Audio Opus 21 full stack high fidelity audio system works with the USB 2 connection too. I am really happy! I am looking forward to Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit LTS in about three more months. I love Ubuntu 64 bit!

I have an eee 901 with 2G ram and it works perfectly with 10.04 NBR. I'm using the Gnome desktop though, found the netbook desktop annoying. One tip I can pass on after working with a couple of other smaller machines, - install and use the Xubuntu desktop and you will have a bit more memory free.

G60vx running ubuntu 11.10 64 bit works well I like the operating system. Having issues trying to burn a 32 bit version for an older computer. Want to be able to learn the terminal more without the possibilty of losing data on my everyday machine. I'm super new the whole open source thing. Stopped keeping up with technology when i was a teenager (used to enjoy running programs off DOS) haven' kept up with anything since. So basically im a noob any suggestions would be appreciated.

Asus K52F Laptop - Runs flawlessly. Have used 11.04 and 11.10 on it.

Frankenbox- Asus P4SD-LA Motherboard (swiped from an HP Pavillion a636n) Intel Pentium 4 2.80 GHz (Socket 478) ATI RV515 Pro graphics card 4g of RAM (BIOS only allows 3.3)

runs phenomenally as well, with the same versions listed above + 10.10 and Mint.

Also have another Franken-HP with an Asus A8AE-LE mobo and an AMD Athlon 64 3500 processor in it that runs boss... Don't reember all the spex, tho.

I tried to install Ubuntu 11.10 on Asus F1 A75-M but failed. There seems to be video output problems. When I load the installation disk it immediately kills the video output to the LCD monitor, via VGA. I even returned the motherboard to the retailler because I thought it might be a manufacturing defect. I obtained a similar Asus F1 A75-M and tried to install again but I got the very same results.

Run Lubuntu 11.10 on a eeePC 900 with 1GB RAM. Works well, even if it not as poliched as Ubuntu. Maybe chaning till Xubuntu, will see.

Suspend finally works and works well without any glitches on my ASUS 1015-B netbook, the latest Catalyst 12.2 fixed all the issues.

All my Fn keys have worked out of the box with Ubuntu 11.10 so I am anticipating an excellent time with 12.04LTS for years to come with this netbook and my other PCs and laptops.

Linuxisfast said: Suspend finally works and works well without any glitches on my ASUS 1015-B netbook, the latest Catalyst 12.2 fixed all the issues.

All my Fn keys have worked out of the box with Ubuntu 11.10 so I am anticipating an excellent time with 12.04LTS for years to come with this netbook and my other PCs and laptops.

I have just bought a Asus E45M1M Pro motherboard (AMD Fusion ) If I install propretarian drivers I get a little symbol on the screen 'Hardware not suppportet'. May Catalyst 12.2 fix the problem in 11.10? I know some distrubition support Asus E45M1M. I have some problem to suspend with the open drivers (does work at all, need to turn off and on the compuuter) /Cheers

I am considering buying an ASUS A54H but only if I can run one of the flavours of Ubuntu on it (as a separate dual-boot OS - not from within Windows).

Can anyone tell me if there are any problems with running Linux on this model please?

I have been using Linux for 12 years now and have Ubuntu, Xubuntu and Kubuntu running on my network so I am familiar with the system.

Thanks for your help.

Alan.

Asus laptop U52F 12.04 LTS dual boot with win7 Everything runs great!

Sorry.....just found out that suspend will not work. Seems to go into a hang mode, fan speeds up and I have to do a hard shut down to get out of it.

Looks like others are also having this problem. I was hoping 12.04 would have worked with suspend. I managed to fix this with previous version 11.10 but the problem returned in 12.04.

I have just bought an ASUS Aspire 5750Z with Windows 7 Home Premium and Xubuntu 11.10 now upgraded to 12.04. The installation went as normal - very fast - and the upgrade was straightforward. All drivers seem to be OK. Wireless connection OK. No trouble at all.

Alan

EEEPC900 Just installed 12.04 and EVERYTHING works right out of the box. No probs at all except for the reeeeeeally long installation time. Boots up in about 90 seconds.

ASUS Eee PC 1001PXD works out of the box. Wifi, sound, display,VGA, Ethernet, and SD card reader. I have not tested the Kensington lock though.

Asus M70Vn laptop computer : everything works out of the box. (Dual boot with Windoze 7.) HP Pavilion m9680 : same thing. Everything works out of the box.(Dual boot with Windoze 7.)

Specs

Asus M4A89GTD Pro USB3 Mb Phenom 2 1090 8Gb Kingston 1600 ram Sapphire HD6950 2gb graphics 1TB Windows 7 Seagate 500Gb Seagate (Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04)

I am running 12.04 on an Asus K53E without any problems at all!

Running 12.04 Precise on an ASUS K53TA Specs:

AMD A6 - 1.4GHz Quadcore 4GB RAM Radeon 6720G2 (Crossfire, Dual video cards)

No major flaws. On 11.10 there was a problem with the default display, as Ubuntu didn't recognise it. To make it work, you had to plug in an HDMI cable and then divert the signal to the laptop screen. Fixed on 12.04.

Laptop ASUS X8AIJ with K40IJ motherboard with xubuntu 12.04 works great !!!

problems :

you can fix this by add the following line into your /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf options snd-hda-intel model=auto

1. sound

fix by add the following line into your /etc/default/grub in the section "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="" add between the quote marks : acpi_backlight=vendor

1. fn keys backlight

ruipalmeira said: Asus N50VN with 11.04 32bit dualboot with Windows 7 Professional 64bit. perfect (multimedia keys even work out of the box, as where windowze fails with it :| )

By the way, in every other computer i've worked with ubuntu on, there were no problems whatsoever, and they weren't all Asus branded/Asus Based computers ;)

Works well also with 12.04 64bit

Asus UX31 running Precise - Worked fine until yesterday but the laptop is dead now. Appears the problem is common and other colleagues have reported the same issue as well. Strangely around the same dates I have posted.

I would suggest not to install on UX21 or 31 ultrabooks until these issues are resolved. Certainly not the best series laptop for Ubuntu for now.

I have an ASUS N61JV-X2 notebook PC and I am running Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit Long Term Support. It works well. I also added and I installed the Bumblebee Project PPA and it works well too. I plan to continue to use my ASUS N61JV-X2 notebook PC along with Ubuntu 64 bit GNU/Linux until December 31st, 2015. Then, I will purchase a top of the line ASUS notebook PC at that future date to replace my ASUS N61JV-X2 notebook PC. ASUS makes extremely reliable desktop and notebook PCs along with motherboards and optical drives.

Asus A8n series and M3a motherboards. I have ran up to 12.04 Precise on 3 different boards from the Asus a8n series and a M3A79T. They are the A8N-E, A8N-VM CSM. and the A8n-SLi premium. I am currently running it on a Asus M3A79T_Deluxe and all boards run flawlessly.

I'm using an unbranded PC with Asus P8H61-MX motherboard, 2.6GHz Intel CPU and 4GB RAM.

The concept of UEFI was new to me so I had more than a few problems during the installation procedure. Worked fine once I figured it all out. :p

bastienandrew said: Asus 1005HAB:

Pros- Great for running microsoft office, and most windows programs via wine

• good for testing code in it, and easy to reinstall ubuntu to the machine if something goes wrong

Cons- mic built into webcam doesnt work well with video chat (other user cant hear you)

• doesnt run steam well
• low frame rate with all major video games

I use a Asus 1005hab also, and everything works out of the box, except for what bastienandrew said, and I have a fix for the mic here (#41) and it runs a bit slow.

I also have a desktop with a Asus MTN68AM+ motherboard and that works perfect without any problems out of the box.

ASUS K53T with AMD quad core and dual ATI works excellent on Ubuntu.

Installed Precise Pangolin on my Asus K53SM-SX010D yesterday. No complaints till now.

Installed 12.04 on EeePC 1225C/Atom N2800/2GB/500GB/1366x768/12" It has display problem, only getting 1024x768. Managed to get display 1366x768 with this solution - http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=11976680&postcount=97 Other issues; ogg and mp4 jerks. I will start playing with 12.10 alpha2, hoping for better result.

I've used Ubuntu 10.10 and 10.04 on EeePC 900 with 12GB SSD and works fine.

But I made the mistake of updating 10.10 to 11.10 and it appeared to update and install fine, but then it asked to reboot, and after power down, the Asus netbook would not boot. It would get as far as BIOS and then just a blinking cursor. After trying all kinds of things from forums, including manually configure GRUB I finally gave up and went back to 10.10. I later tried the same thing on another Asus netbook going from 10.04 to 11.04 with similar results, so my tentative conclusion is the EeePC900 with 12GB or smaller won't run the latest versions of Ubuntu. Am I correct?

Asus U52F.

Graphics, wireless, sound, usb, webcam etc... work out of the box perfectly.

Suspend/hibernate don't, but work perfectly after using the fix here: http://thecodecentral.com/2011/01/18/fix-ubuntu-10-10-suspendhibernate-not-working-bug

asus n76vz, bios 207, ubuntu studio 12.04 here

had to upgrade kernel to 3.4.4 to keep gpu from crashing, and .2 wmi patch to regain more fn's working. backlit keyboard still not working. i have the latest bumblee installed, but have not experimented with gpu switching.

touch pad right clicking works with 2 finger click.

1 - ASUS EEEPC 1005PE Running Ubuntu 12.04. No Issues. 100% Excellent battery life too. Perfect netbook for Ubuntu (Even had 10.10 on it...ran superb)

2 - ASUS G74SX. FN Keys all work, but Brightness for screen won't change (Though it does indicate). Nvidia Display working, HDMI Out working, LAN Working, WiFi working, Bluetooth indicates working (not tested), USB 3.0 working, VGA out working, Optical Drive working (Blu-Ray aspect not tested), Sound working. Performance is amazing.

"Out of the box" (off usb lol) 64Bit Ubuntu 12.04 installs on both machines.

Leon A said: I've used Ubuntu 10.10 and 10.04 on EeePC 900 with 12GB SSD and works fine.

But I made the mistake of updating 10.10 to 11.10 and it appeared to update and install fine, but then it asked to reboot, and after power down, the Asus netbook would not boot. It would get as far as BIOS and then just a blinking cursor. After trying all kinds of things from forums, including manually configure GRUB I finally gave up and went back to 10.10. I later tried the same thing on another Asus netbook going from 10.04 to 11.04 with similar results, so my tentative conclusion is the EeePC900 with 12GB or smaller won't run the latest versions of Ubuntu. Am I correct?

I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 on my Eee 900 from an 8 GB SDHC card. I switched from the Unity desktop to Fluxbox which made all applications run better (especially streaming video). I had to tweak a few things to fix bugs in the touchpad, battery control, and use of SD swap space, but the system now works perfectly. Skype, Youtube, Banshee, etc. run very well. But Nautilus file manager must be replaced with something like pcmanfm or mc to avoid crashes.

Leon A said: I've used Ubuntu 10.10 and 10.04 on EeePC 900 with 12GB SSD and works fine.

But I made the mistake of updating 10.10 to 11.10 and it appeared to update and install fine, but then it asked to reboot, and after power down, the Asus netbook would not boot. It would get as far as BIOS and then just a blinking cursor. After trying all kinds of things from forums, including manually configure GRUB I finally gave up and went back to 10.10. I later tried the same thing on another Asus netbook going from 10.04 to 11.04 with similar results, so my tentative conclusion is the EeePC900 with 12GB or smaller won't run the latest versions of Ubuntu. Am I correct?

I'm glad I read this! I've been debating over whether to upgrade my EeePC from 10.10 ever since it became unsupported...Is there any danger in using an older program? Everything seems to be running fine. I just can't get updates anymore.

agnisflugen said: I'm glad I read this! I've been debating over whether to upgrade my EeePC from 10.10 ever since it became unsupported...Is there any danger in using an older program? Everything seems to be running fine. I just can't get updates anymore.

I have 11.10 lubuntu with no problem and I have had ubuntu 11.10, but tried lubuntu and It is little faster, than ubuntu.

All those who upgraded from 11.04 to 11.04 or 10.10 to 11.10, is it even possible? I thougt you could only upgrade from one reales to next 10.04-->10.10 and 10.10 -->11.04 AND 10.04LTS-->12.04LTS. Could that bee way they have had problems?

It's better to have 10.04LTS than 10.10 cos 10.04LTS have support until 2013.

/Cheers

ASUS Essentio CM1740-02 with dual boot: 12.04 and Win7 I'm happy with it.

running UBU 12.04 LTS, my ASUS P5gc-mx PC runs fair. I believe I built it to 6 gig. But for unknown reasons Libre Office 3.5 killed output from my HP 4000 Laser Jet printer. Gave up and bought a Dell printer and finally Libre writer updated or the fight within my ASUS drove me to use a different PC. Why'd I set it aside? among other things, it would not power off without clicking a toogle switch. I'd say that's ASUS hardware or a freak 12.04 hazzard.

No I cannot say ubu 12.04, 11.10; or 11.04 well adapted to ASUS; I recall the best capabilities with 10.04, 9:10 and 9:04... :popcorn:

I don't remember problems with 8:10 or 8:04 when I bought ASUS P5gc-mx PC.

KX Studio ran stably with a beefed up PPA on the ASUS P5gc-mx PC beginning with 9:04; 9:10; 10.04 but I lost patience using the beefed up video building features running 11.10 and 11.04. That is when I pulled out my 80 gig and 750 gig HDs:)

Yes, I lost patience and dropped in a 160 gig and did a new install 12.04 plain LTS. For you people who say new installs saves you time and trouble I point you to painful experience with unknowns mentioned in the first sentence above. :o

Running Ubuntu 12.04 on PC900 all hardware works as expected but I have one problem. I have gone back and forth from Windows to Ubuntu back to 9.xx. This version will not let me auto-hide the taskbar and launch it when I move cursor to left edge. I have gone into System settings/Personal/Display/Behavior and clicked on Auto-hide the launcher and clicked on Turn on. Launcher hides but won't unhide.

A73E w/added 250Gb SSD & 16Mb RAM Ubuntu worked fine installed on the HDD, but it wouldn't recognize my SSD when trying to install it there. After fighting with partitions etc for a few days I gave up and pulled the HDD to give it nowhere else to go but the SSD. Now it works fine, although everything has locked up on me a few times while tweaking Compiz. (Is there a Ctrl+Alt+Del equivalent in Ubuntu?) This whole Linux thing is brand new to me, luckily I haven't totally jacked everything up... yet. The launcher hides/unhides fine, but the touchpad is waaay too sensitive though.

Works like on a champ on the Asus X401A (Pentium Processor) I picked up at Best Buy to dedicate to giving Linux another chance.

Love Ubuntu.

Completely frustrated that there's no support for MTP file transfer to the Nexus 7 without command-line fu in any of the major audio management programs (RhythmBox, Banshee, etc).

Ubuntu is running very nicely indeed on an old F3JP laptop which still performs respectably after all these years. It's a real workhorse and has made me an ASUS fanboy.

Got an Asus N56VJ laptop last week. It is the windows 8 version of last year's N56VM. Which doesn't matter to me as I installed an Intel SSD before ever powering it up. Installed Ubuntu 12.10 without a problem. Working on install, Wireless, sound, backlit keyboard, beautiful 1920x1080 screen. Not working was Wired LAN jack (solved by compiling new driver). Display backlight hot keys do not work, all other function keys OK.

The VJ has Intel graphics but also has an Nvidia 635M graphics chip. To activate it I installed Bumblebee. Frame rate of glxspheres is 60 with the Intel, 164 with the 635M engaged. I don't do games so doubt I will use it much. Will see if it improves sketchup or Gimp.

I like it.