ASUS X552M

Device	Status	Modules
Intel	Working	xf86-video-intel
Nvidia	Working	bumblebee & nvidia
Ethernet	Working	r8169
Wireless	Working	broadcom-wl-dkms
Audio	Working	snd_hda_codec_realtek
Touchpad	Working	xf86-input-synaptics
Camera	Working

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Hardware

lsusb

$ lsusb

Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0bda:57b4 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 04ca:2006 Lite-On Technology Corp. Broadcom BCM43142A0 Bluetooth Device
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:07e6 Intel Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

lspci

$ lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series SoC Transaction Register (rev 0e)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics & Display (rev 0e)
00:13.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor E3800 Series SATA AHCI Controller (rev 0e)
00:1a.0 Encryption controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Trusted Execution Engine (rev 0e)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series High Definition Audio Controller (rev 0e)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Atom Processor E3800 Series PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 0e)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Atom Processor E3800 Series PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev 0e)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Atom Processor E3800 Series PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev 0e)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series USB EHCI (rev 0e)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Power Control Unit (rev 0e)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Atom Processor E3800 Series SMBus Controller (rev 0e)
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF117M [GeForce 610M/710M/810M/820M / GT 620M/625M/630M/720M] (rev a1)
02:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS5286 PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01)
02:00.2 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 06)
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 802.11b/g/n (rev 01)

Settings

Warning: Intel Baytrail CPU is known to provoque complete system freeze until this bug is fixed in the kernel

Video

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

$ lspci | grep VGA

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics & Display (rev 0e)

For Intel HD install: xf86-video-intel

$ lspci | grep 3D

01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF117M [GeForce 610M/710M/810M/820M / GT 620M/625M/630M/720M] (rev a1)

For using Nvidia install bumblebee along with Nvidia and Intel drivers^{[broken link: invalid section]}.

Lan

Works fine with no configuration required.

Wifi

Wifi does not work out of box, because you need to install broadcom-wl-dkms-248^AUR driver.

Ethernet works good, so you can use cable for installing wifi driver.

Warning: Using the proprietary driver with KMS leads to sporadic OS freeze! I suppose that is problem with sporadic OS freezes.

Audio

Install PulseAudio.

After installation, reboot the laptop to ensure all modules are loaded. Audio works well both with pure ALSA and with PulseAudio.

Touchpad

Touchpad works with: xf86-input-synaptics

Brightness

Brightness does work out of box, but you can not change value with keyboard combo, buttons are not mapped at all (fn + F5 / fn + F6), until you use the kernel parameter acpi_osi= acpi_backlight=native to your bootloader. acpi_osi= it's indeed followed by a blank space + acpi_backlight=native. This is only way when backlight can be controled with keyboard combo keys.

Webcam

Cheese works fine out of the box.

Bluetooth & Card reader

Bluetooth has not been tested because it is not used. The card reader has not been tested too, but it should work fine.

Problems

Led

No way to solve the problem of led for wifi. Every other led (battery, hdd, backlight) works good, but led for wifi does not work even keyboard combo (fn + F2) for enabling / disabling wifi works.