ASUS S56CM & Ubuntu

[snowz]

Does Ubuntu work out of the box on the ASUS S56CM Ultrabook?

[Amithiel]

in a day or 2, im going to buy it too. i wonder if it works fine
24gb ssd, and another 1tb hd

[snowz]

The thing that is bothering me is the optical drive. Would be better having the optical drive replaced with a better battery or something more useful.

[Amithiel]

The thing that is bothering me is the optical drive. Would be better having the optical drive replaced with a better battery or something more useful.

true. anyway, cant wait to get mine

[Amithiel]

jesus, just got home with the laptop. can't even format this thing. what the hell. boots only from secure boot, wont let me do anything else. not even installing windows7 ?

[Amithiel]

did you managed to install ubuntu?
since our disk is 1 TB + 24 GB SSD, how should we do the partitioning?
is it possible to disable the secureboot?

[Amithiel]

I just thought it would be nice to leave a last comment here:

I'm now running linuxmint 14 without any issues at all.

some aditional info:

- first go into BIOS and disable quick/fast boot and also Secure boot (failing this step will block the cd/usb installation)

- install linux and enjoy

- I did a manual partitition: please do NOT delete the "efi partition" , its only 300MB and will save you some headaches if you ever return to windows 8.
i erase all the left partitions.
Use the 1 TB HDD to install /home ,
and use the 24 GB ssd to install /

everything working out of the box. For the Nvidia driver, use Bumblebee.
There might be some issues with suspending/hibernation, as it freezed on me a couple of times. But i don't care, i rarely use it, so... just disable that and wait for some fix.

[donbeo]

I'm using ubuntu 12.04 on a s56cm.
Sometimes ubuntu freezes and I do not know why.

Now I'm tryng to use Unity 2d

Do you thing that is nvidia the causes of the freezes?

[cobak78]

my ASUS have a bunch of partitions

dev/sda1/ fat32 314MB
dev/sda2/ ntfs 329MB
dev/sda3/ unknown 133MB
dev/sda4/ ntfs 200GB
dev/sda5/ ntfs 200GB
dev/sda6/ ntfs 20GB

and in the ssd

dev/sdb1/ ntfs 4294MB
dev/sdb2/ unknown 20GB

wich one is the recovery partition?

[jonigual]

I just installed ubuntu 12.10 along with windows 8 and everything is working fine.
Have to do some twiks thouh.

For installing it I basically followed the steps described here: http://webent.altervista.org/2012/09...enbook-ux32vd/
Here are the steps I followed (I used SSD disk for installing ubuntu sytem).

- As Amithiel said, to start from an Ubuntu Live CD/USB "first go into BIOS and disable quick/fast boot and also Secure boot".

- I selected to try Ubuntu, and used gparted for partitioning the disk. I had quite a lot of partitions already there. I deleted the DATA partition I had (with 500GB), and used the free space to create a swap partition with 5GB, and the rest for creating an ext4 partition (495GB). I also deleted all the partitions in the ssd disk (sdb), and create another ext4 partition with all of it. I don't really know what all the other partitions are for, so it just felt safer to leave them alone.

- Reboot and install Ubuntu. Select manual partition and use the swap partition for swap, set 495GB partition for ext4 (mounting point /home), and the sdb disk for ext4 (mounting point / ). Follow the rest of the steps and ubuntu should be installed.

AFTER INSTALLATION:

- I couldn't adjust the screen resolution, so I upgraded the kernel to 3.7.4 version following the steps described here: http://www.upubuntu.com/2013/01/inst...untulinux.html

- After upgrading the kernel edit the file /etc/defaul/grub and change the following line:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

with:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_osi="

Update grub with the following command: sudo update-grub

- For the nvidia drivers I installed bumblebee (http://bumblebee-project.org/install.html#Ubuntu).

That's all! Everything is working perfect now.

Hope it helps.