ASUS N53JN

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Device	Status	Modules
Intel	Working	xf86-video-intel
Nvidia	Partially Working	bumblebee
Ethernet	Working	atl1c
Wireless	Working	ath9k
Audio	Working	snd_hda_intel
Touchpad	Working
Camera	Working	uvcvideo
USB 3.0	Working	xhci_hcd
eSATA	Working
Card Reader	Working
Function Keys	Working
Suspend	Working, look bellow

Hardware

CPU: Intel Core i5 450M, 2.4GHz

Mainboard: Intel HM55

RAM: 4096 MB, 2x 2048 MByte DDR3

Display: 15,6" HD LED (1366x768)

Graphics adapter: NVIDIA GeForce GT 335M - 1024 MB and Intel Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller

Soundcard: integrated Intel HDA

Network: Atheros Gigabit Ethernet Controller, Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network

Hard disk: Seagate Momentus 500GB 5400rpm SATA

Webcam: IMC Networks

Touchpad: Elantech

Configuration

CPU

Works out of the box.

Follow the CPU frequency scaling guide to enable speed-stepping. Processor has Intel Turbo Boost which works out of the box, but you cannot see the frequncies above 2.4GHz in /proc/cpuinfo. To see the actual frequency use i7z.

Video

Intel

Follow these guides: Xorg and Intel

No problems detected. VGA out and HDMI working.

Nvidia

The official proprietary nvidia drivers for linux do not support Nvidia Optimus yet, but there is a workaround in the form of bumblebee. It enables the use of Nvidia graphic card via virtualgl. Just follow the instructions for setting up bumblebee in our wiki. Please note that this laptop has software switch that turns Nvidia graphics card off. You can turn it on using acpi_call.

Switching graphic cards

Look at ASUS N82JV page.

Audio

Follow the official documentation: ALSA and PulseAudio

In order to make integrated speakers work add to /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf:

/etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf

...
options snd-hda-intel index=0 model=auto

And to /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf add:

/etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf

...
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
alias sound-slot-0 snd-hda-intel

Touchpad

Follow the Synaptics guide.

Webcam

Working, but the picture is refreshing slowly.

Suspend

The USB unbind hook is no longer necessary as of Linux 3.5.

The laptop still hangs if you disable nVidia GPU and try to suspend! However, a workaround that works with ASUS N82JV consists in blacklisting nouveau. That still allows the user to power the card off in that laptop.