Asus X205TA hardware support in Ubuntu
I followed the instructions here: https://github.com/lopaka/instructio. asus-x205ta.md and have created a bootable USB stick with Ubuntu 14.10 that works on the Asus x205ta. Much of it is working — desktop, basic mouse functions, proper screen resolution.
However, there are lots of problems with the hardware:-
- Hot keys do not work, apart from volume up / down / mute. In Ubuntu MATE Linux, there is an Asus Laptop keyboard type but selecting it has no effect.
- Suspend doesn’t appear to be working. It just turns the screen off.
- The internal Broadcom wifi card is not recognised.
- Bluetooth card not recognised.
- Sound card not recognised.
- No battery status available. The system thinks it is plugged into the mains.
- The Micro SD card reader doesn’t work. Cards are not recognised or mounted.
- The trackpad does not support anything more than pointer positioning and right / left clicks. No multi touch (for example, two finger scrolling).
- An external wifi card (EdiMax) will work, but is flaky; times out.
I am sure there are other problems and I know there is another thread that talks about running 14.04 on the X205TA.
I ran the utilities requested in that other thread and the output is here.
Output of ‘sudo lspci -knn’
Output of ‘lspci’:
Output of ‘lsusb’:
The Edimax card is an external USB micro wifi card. I think the Realtek device is the sound card.
How can this be progressed? It’s a great machine otherwise, and (reportedly) on sale for only $99 in Staples for Black Friday (2014). You lucky Americans get all the best deals — I think there are going to be an awful lot of people buying them.
There is also a version of Fedora called Fedlet here : https://www.happyassassin.net/fedlet. trail-tablets/ which says it supports Bay Trail tablets including the Asus Transformer book (T-1000). I’m downloading it now to see if any more hardware is supported on the x205..
Latest is that Asus Technical Support have stated they do not support Linux on the x205 (comment posted on the Amazon product review thread).
@haziz: Thanks — I was beginning to think I was on my own in here.. 🙂 How was hardware support in Fedlet? Does it recognise any of the ACPI / wifi hardware?
Anyway in the end I returned my x205 to the store. I had to use VirtualBox to get Ubuntu running propery and it wasn’t too bad. Of course, all the x205 hardware worked perfectly. But mine was a blue one which looked like a 5 year old laptop after 3 days thanks to the paint finish showing up every little fingerprint, so I decided to wait for the gold one to become available in the UK (I saw a white one but it looked and felt really nasty). I might also be able to get a 64GB version if they ever make good on their announcement and produce it!
My VirtualBox settings were all default except for number of processors: 2 and memory: 996MB. I used the 32 bit Ubuntu MATE 14.04 distribution — you should give it a go, you might be surprised at how well it runs.
I’ve just managed to install Ubuntu 14.10 on my asus x205ta notebook, following lopaka’s guide like you Jon and I also had the same wifi etc. problems.
I used a different wifi adaptor (Netgear N300 Wifi Mini Adapter) but with the same flaky results — connection fading out and having to often reconnect.
I did have a few extra problems following lopaka, though. They’re probably pretty trivial to more experienced
Linux installers but I’m not a complete novice, so it might be worth mentioning them.
1) After initial installation, when trying to boot back into the installed version via command line GRUB on the LiveLinux USB:
Lopaka had steered me right up to this point so when he suggested using
as the argument to the linux command, I went for that (the file existed). The attempted boot failed. After much
hair-pulling, I noticed that there had been another vmlinuz option. There was also
a vmlinuz-3.6-0-23.efi.signed file in /boot. I tried that instead and the command line GRUB boot succeeded.
(NOTE: I had remembered to disable secure boot, so that hadn’t been the problem).
2) In the final stage of building grubia32.efi, I had problems with the line
../grub-install -d . —efi-directory /boot/efi/ —target=i386ex
It was giving me a ‘Can’t open <something>/dev/mmcblk0p1" error [sorry, can’t remember the
exact wording of the message or what <something> was]. I thought that it was some esoteric problem
related to addressing MMC/SD device partitions because I’d seen some related errors on other forums,
Then somebody from whom I’d eventually asked for help, pointed out that I wasn’t making the call as a su!
When I tried sudo ../grub_install. it worked fine. You could say it was just my stupidity to not spot
the problem immediately but I think it’s an easy thing to overlook when you are paranoid about all
the potential problems with ****** eMMC storage devices.
This kind of sucks. It’s a perfect Linux machine. Oh well.
So, you actually installed to your internal storage? I kept mine as a live USB setup then ran Unbuntu MATE in a VM — it was reasonably quick and supported all hardware. Of course the problem with that is there is hardly any disk space left. Since then I returned the machine because I hated the nasty fingerprint grabbing paint, and will wait for a gold one to become available in the UK. We really need 64GB in this machine, then dual booting becomes reasonable. But for my part I can’t really countenance installing Ubuntu internally until at least the wi-fi card works properly, otherwise it would severly limit the utility of the machine. I could have got by with an external card but the one I had gave the patchy results (and it is the same device mentioned as working in lopaka’s guide).
One thing that was frustrating was the unavailability of a touchpad settings widget in the system prefs. This may be because it’s not in the distro by default, or maybe it cannot detect the trackpad as a pad — seems to thnk it is a mouse?
Anyway, thanks for replying and keep up the good work.
I got an Asus X205 to work on to get this into a relatively working state.
To get rid of the MMC errors, you can go to https://plus.google.com/communities/. 03024346186936 and download their latest Stable 3.18 Kernels for Ubuntu 15.04 (I honestly don’t know if they can be used on 14.10).
The battery indicator works with their patches, but I’ve so far been unable to get sound and wlan to work. I honestly think that the X205 is a T100 in a laptop format, but alas it seems that the sound and wifi must be different chipsets. I am positive that the X205 uses a brcm 4330 chipset for wifi on the X205 (that’s what I got from the PCI vendor IDs when I HAD Windows installed), but I cannot get the module to load no matter what I try.
Locate simple file system protocol failly asus что делать
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Немецкая страничка по Ноутбукам ASUS
Страничка загрузки драйверов, прошивок, мануалов и т.п. (only english)
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ASUS fans (клуб любителей ASUS, много полезного)
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| Никакой заплатки не поставить, чтобы хотя бы в устройствах не торчал?! |
Неа. Да и зачем, или смотрите в Дисп.уст-в сутками и кушать не можете ?
Решаемо?
Антивирь стоит, в процессах никого гиперактивного нет. Отказывался на точку сразу после установки драйверов — та же песня (лаг присутствует).
Ps: если есть у кого кнопочка "esc" моякните))
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Установлено ?
Цитата:
| А ещё кстате, елановский тачпад |
Причем тут Асус ? Это выбор клиента, какую ось ставить.
И то что в ней, что-то не работает- это тоже его выбор.
Цитата:
| АСУС при том, что принудительно заставляет пользоваться 8рой. А если клиент не хочет — то посылает на йух! |
Выбрать продукцию Асус, тоже заставляют с пистолетом у виска ?
Цитата:
А ещё кстате, елановский тачпад
Цитата:
| Прошить не могу, |
Батарею вынимали минут на 10 ?
Цитата:
| первым делом csm включал. |
А Secure boot : disabled ?
Anyone else had this? Don't particularly want to install Windows just to use winflash.
Barlok88, не люблю я сборки.. Но как вариант, найти сборку с загрузчиком от Win 8\10.
Они есть.
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A friend just gave me an ASUS-PRO P450CA-XH51 laptop in pristine condition, with Windows 10 Pro 64-bit.
Intel i5 3337U 1.80GHz CPU, 6GB RAM, Crucial 250GB SSD, Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000.
Has anyone here installed LM MATE or Cinnamon 18.3 64-bit onto one of these machines?
I just can’t stand Windows. period.
I will boot-up a LM MATE 18.3 64-bit Live USB and give it a whirl.
Many thanks for all assistance.
Re: ASUS-PRO P450CA-XH51
Post by AZgl1800 » Sun Mar 04, 2018 8:23 pm
oh yes, that is going to be a screamer!
power on to desktop in about 10 seconds.
I am typing on an ASUS TP500L and it runs 18.3 Cinnamon with only 4 gB of RAM and it don’t even blink.
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Re: ASUS-PRO P450CA-XH51
Post by Joe2Shoe » Sun Mar 04, 2018 8:43 pm
Re: ASUS-PRO P450CA-XH51
Post by Joe2Shoe » Thu Mar 08, 2018 12:09 pm
Well, I finally installed LM Cinnamon 18.3 64-bit onto this laptop, and everything was nice. The friend that gave me the laptop came over and wanted to update the BIOS, but I told him to wait until I returned, as I had to go take care of some business and that I would be back in an hour. Well, long story short, he went ahead and tried to update the BIOS and bricked the laptop.
It took me 4 days to figure out how to repair the BIOS Update Utility on the mobo. What an ordeal.
Advanced/Start Easy Flash (BIOS Update Utility)
He obviously choose the wrong setting/whatever, then after pressing Enter, the update did not finish, then the machine would not reboot.
The BIOS is still installed, but trying to update the BIOS within the BIOS itself, this message is displayed:
Initialize .
Getting Flash Information.
Locate Simple File System protocol failly!! Please press any key.
On a fresh install of LM Mate 18.3 64-bit, choosing «Something else», this message is displayed:
GRUB installation failed.
The ‘grub-efi-amd64-signed’ package failed to install into /target/.
Without the GRUB boot loader, the installed system will not boot.
Then, on reboot, this message is displayed:
error: file ‘/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod’ not found.
Entering rescue mode.
grub rescue>
All the above messages are displayed because the BIOS Utility is corrupt.
Editing Grub, numerous LiveCDs, SuperGrub2 repairs didn’t work, or whatever didn’t work, simply because the BIOS Utility on the mobo was corrupt.
It took a lot of roundabout hoopla to get the laptop back to normal again. But, it’s 100% now, and I was able to update the BIOS.
Asus PC stuck on BIOS screen!
Hey, so a lot has been happening to my Asus Laptop(Q501LA). So I was playing. minecraft at the time and suddenly I get this blue screen that says ‘ Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart. We’re just collecting some error info and then we’ll restart for you. 0% Complete’ about a minute after it displayed this, the screen went black and the BIOS screen pops up. So, normally with BIOS, if you hit save and exit, it will let you continue on to the loading screen. Nope. It went back to the BIOS screen. I have tried everything. Resting BIOS to default settings, and tweaked with other things on BIOS. Nothing. So now, I am stuck on BIOS and cannot get to the windows login screen, or anything at all.
I also just removed and installed the battery and it is still doing this. Anyone know what the problem may be?