ASUS N550JX

Device	Status	Module
Intel	Working	xf86-video-intel
Nvidia	Working	nvidia
Ethernet	Working	r8169
Wireless	Working	iwlwifi
Audio	Working	snd_hda_intel
Touchpad	Working	xf86-input-synaptics
Camera	Working	uvcvideo
Card Reader	Working	rtsx_usb
Bluetooth	Working	bluetooth

Hardware

This article covers hardware specific configuration for ASUS N550JX laptop.

Configuration

Video

Laptop comes with two GPU's (main INTEL and dedicated NVIDIA):

$ lspci | grep "VGA|3D"

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06)
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107M [GeForce GTX 950M] (rev ff)

NVIDIA Optimus technology can be implemented and controlled using Bumblebee software.

Audio

Built-in speakers and headphones work out of the box with snd_hda_intel driver. External sub-woofer works after this patch is applied:

/etc/modprobe.d/snd-hda-intel-n550jx.conf

options snd-hda-intel patch=n550jx-lfe-fix,n550jx-lfe-fix

/lib/firmware/n550jx-lfe-fix

[codec]
0x10ec0668 0x104313df 0

[pincfg]
0x1a 0x00106111

You can install patch from AUR

At the time of writing this article kernel bug is filled for this patch to be included in ALSA future releases.

Keyboard

In order to make all keyboard function keys (FN+F{1..12}) generate correct signals - add kernel parameter 'acpi_osi=' (without quotation marks) to your bootloader.

Troubleshooting

nouveau problems

Installation media sometimes produces a lot of error messages during boot. This is a bug in the nouveau driver. Just ignore hitting Enter few times. Later you can disable nouveau module:

/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf

blacklist nouveau