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DebianOn is an effort to document how to install, configure and use Debian on some specific hardware. Therefore potential buyers would know if that hardware is supported and owners would know how get the best out of that hardware.

The purpose is not to duplicate the Debian Official Documentation, but to document how to install Debian on some specific hardware.

If you need help to get Debian running on your hardware, please have a look at our user support channels where you may find specific channels (mailing list, IRC channel) dedicated to certain types of hardware.

Models covered

ASUS N551JW-CN068H

CPU:

Intel i7-4720HQ

Integrated video card:

Intel HD Graphics 4600

Discrete video card:

Nvidia ?GeForce GTX 960M 4GB GDDR5

Screen:

15.6" 16:9 Full HD (1920x1080)

Wireless card:

Qualcomm Atheros AR9485

Disks:

2.5" SATA3 1TB HDD 7200 RPM

RAM:

DDR3L 1600 MHz SDRAM 16GB

Bluetooth:

Atheros AR3012

Overall Status in Debian 12 "Bookworm"

Core Components

[ATTACH]

Boot Standard Kernel:

(./)

LAN network card:

(./)

Detect CD/DVD:

(./)

Detect hard drives:

(./)

CPU:

(./)

Power Management

Shutdown

(./)

Reboot

(./)

Hibernation

(./)

Sleep / Suspend

(./)

Display Server

Integrated Intel video card

(./)

Discrete Nvidia video card

X-(

Screen backlight

(./)

Switch to External Screen (HDMI)

(./)

Xorg

(./)

Wayland

(./)

Built-in/Internal Devices

Built-in Touchpad

(./)

Bluetooth

X-(

Wifi

(./)

Keyboard's Hotkeys

(./) (not all keys)

Audio

- Built-in speakers and microphone

(./)

- External headphone (combo audio jack)

(./)

- External microphone (combo audio jack)

/!\

- ?SonicMaster external subwoofer

{i}

MicroSD card reader

(./)

Built-in camera

(./)

Legend:

(./)

OK

{i}

Configuration required

<!>

Affected by bugs

X-(

Requires non-free driver and or firmware

/!\

Error (Couldn't get it working)

{o}

Not tested or partially tested

{X}

Unsupported (no driver)

[-]

Not applicable

Configuration

Display

The integrated video card Intel HD Graphics 4600 works out of the box. Make sure the driver xserver-xorg-video-intel is not installed, because nor it is required nor its usage is recommended.

The discrete video card Nvidia ?GeForce GTX 960M works best with the Nvidia proprietary drivers, while it may not work as expected with the Nouveau free drivers. Please check the NVIDIA Optimus page for detailed instruction on how to configure it.

To make use of the Hardware Video Acceleration in media players and internet browsers, install i965-va-driver and make sure it is preferred over intel-media-va-driver (see Hardware Video Acceleration for details).

Audio

The built-in speakers and microphone work out of the box. External headset microphones plugged to the headphone/microphone combo jack do not work, see PulseAudio Issue #194.

SonicMaster external subwoofer

A configuration of the sound subsystem is required in order to use the ?SonicMaster external subwoofer. Please read the official HD-Audio documentation to understand the procedure described in the following.

The HD-Audio setup can be modified by using a firmware file, a patch file in plain text (see HD-Audio early patching). The required patch file can be created in this way:

cat << EOF | sudo tee /lib/firmware/asus-n551jw-subwoofer.fw > /dev/null
[codec]
$(cat /sys/class/sound/hwC1D0/vendor_id) $(cat /sys/class/sound/hwC1D0/subsystem_id) 0

[pincfg]
0x1a 0x90170151
EOF

Please pay attention that in the above code, under the [codec] section, /sys/class/sound/hwC1D0 refers to the ALC668 codec and should not be confused with /sys/class/sound/hwC0D0, the HDMI codec, that requires no changes (see HD-Audio reconfiguration for more info). In the [pincfg] section the first string, 0x1a, is the subwoofer pin and the second one, 0x90170151, is its configuration as Internal Speaker (LFE) (Bass only information).

The patch file then has to be declared as an option for the snd-hda-intel module:

echo "options snd-hda-intel patch=,asus-n551jw-subwoofer.fw" | \
sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/asus-n551jw-subwoofer.conf > /dev/null

Please pay attention that the patch module option is specific to each card instance and it requires one file name for each instance, separated by commas (e.g. patch=hdmi-patch,on-board-patch). In this case the first file name, for the HDMI, is empty because it is not needed.

The last step is to configure the audio server. For example, a configuration file for PulseAudio can be created in this way (check man pulse-daemon.conf for detailed info):

cat << EOF > ~/.config/pulse/daemon.conf
default-sample-channels = 3
enable-lfe-remixing = yes
default-channel-map = front-left,front-right,lfe
lfe-crossover-freq = 250
EOF

This should work with PipeWire as well if the package pipewire-pulse is installed. The last line, lfe-crossover-freq = 250, is a suggestion from this this post:

At this point the system has to be rebooted in order to apply the changes. Then it will be possible to choose two more configurations for the audio device: analogic sorround 2.1 (suggested) and analogic sorround 4.0 (the subwoofer acts as a rear right speaker).

Touchpad

The touchpad works out of the box with the default libinput driver.

Bluetooth

The Bluetooth requires the proprietary firmware (ar3k/AthrBT_0x01020200.dfu) provided by the package firmware-atheros.


System Summary

lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor DRAM Controller [8086:0c04] (rev 06)                                                                                                                     
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor PCI Express x16 Controller [8086:0c01] (rev 06)                                                                                                           
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0416] (rev 06)
00:03.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio Controller [8086:0c0c] (rev 06)
00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI [8086:8c31] (rev 05)
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 [8086:8c3a] (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI #2 [8086:8c2d] (rev 05)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset High Definition Audio Controller [8086:8c20] (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #1 [8086:8c10] (rev d5)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #2 [8086:8c12] (rev d5)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #3 [8086:8c14] (rev d5)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #4 [8086:8c16] (rev d5)
00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI #1 [8086:8c26] (rev 05)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation HM86 Express LPC Controller [8086:8c49] (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller 1 [AHCI mode] [8086:8c03] (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller [8086:8c22] (rev 05)
01:00.0 3D controller [0302]: NVIDIA Corporation GM107M [GeForce GTX 960M] [10de:139b] (rev ff)
04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter [168c:0032] (rev 01)
05:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8411B PCI Express Card Reader [10ec:5287] (rev 01)
05:00.1 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 12)

lsusb

Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:8000 Intel Corp. 
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:8008 Intel Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 004: ID 04f2:b3fd Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd 
Bus 003 Device 014: ID 13d3:3402 IMC Networks 
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

Credits

/dev/fra


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