How to ASUS K50IJ - Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty

[saem]

I'm using Fedora, but I stumbled upon this thread as I was attempting to get my K50IJ setup, in particular I didn't have working sound.

As far as I can tell there is a bug/misconfiguration with the codec detection for this particular model, and to fix it I followed the advice in the following post: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=509542#c3

So, first thing, what's HDA-Analyzer? Google turns up:

http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/HDA_Analyzer

Basically, make sure you have python-gtk2 libs installed, not sure what they're called in ubuntu. Then running as root, might not need to I did in fedora, run the tool. You'll see a tree of 'nodes' click on Node[0x1c] PIN. Then looking about the display, you should see the section about 'EAPD', there will be a number of checkboxes as part of it, and one of those will be 'EAPD', check that one.

Then try out your sound, if it works, you're all set. If not, you might have to do a few other things, I did have to do the usual pulseaudio stuff like change the tsched=no, and reducing the timing from 25ms to 10ms as well.

I hope this helps. That last bit did it. I haven't tested the Mic or headphones. Best of luck!

[mutrax]

Hey, was strugling with sound, and the alsa upgrade script didn't work with me... I solved it a bit different.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1191356

[saem]

Brightness control via FN-keys is working on my machine.

Did you have to do anything to get this working, or was this out of the box?

[2541]

Did you have to do anything to get this working, or was this out of the box?

No it worked out of the box, but only sometimes.
Strange behaviour; with Sidux, the brightness control is working correctly and 'always'.

[peterlx]

Hi everybody,
back to the sound problem. Thx to Sebastian from Cream desktop project who executed the installation steps for install of the latest ALSA driver the sound works in general now. But one problem I have on this AND on another computer: I cannot switch the external mic jack on using ALSAMIXER or another mixer.
Have you any idea how to solve it?

Thanks to everybody which helped already,
Peter

[gerard.leonardo]

Hi there,

Did somebody was able to setup the webcam on this model of asus? I got mine few days ago, I am very thankful with this guide that I was able to setup the audio and the WLAN, however I have a problem with the built in webcam, it is upside down (inverted). Please help.

Thanks in advance!!!

[2541]

Hi there,
I have a problem with the built in webcam, it is upside down (inverted). Please help.

Thanks in advance!!!

My webcam is also upside down.
I've tried a few distros (Fedora, Sidux...).
It is always the same misbehaviour.

Under Windows 7RC with the driver from the asus-website installed
you can turn the stream of the webcam 180° but then left and right are mixed up...
But this is better than upside down.

[KoKuToru]

My webcam is also upside down.

Same here, you can apply a patch for the driver to flip it..
And yeah without installing something the webcam works.

And well ASUS is stupid.. why didn't they just rotated the camera..
Under WinXP it's also wrong.. (with the driver from ASUS, just stupid !)

[2541]

Same here, you can apply a patch for the driver to flip it..

How do I apply this patch for the driver?

[KoKuToru]

How do I apply this patch for the driver?

Found at: http://radu.cotescu.com/2009/07/31/r...ams-in-ubuntu/

And for copy and past:

sudo -s
cd /bin/
wget http://codebin.cotescu.com/uvcvideo/flip_webcam
chmod +x flip_webcam
flip_webcam 1

And it will be done..

After a kernel update run again:

sudo flip_webcam 1

I will add this to the first post..