Free asus laptops software for linux

Laptop-Hotswap kernel module enables hot-swapping for disk drives with full DMA support under Linux. It requires kernel 2.6.15+ and ACPI.
I think it ought to work on just about any laptop, although Im not as familiar with ACPI as Id like to be. It works fine on my T22. There could be issues with laptops with two expansion bays -- I shut down the entire ide1 interface and fire it back up, and I do all my watching on the ACPI device for the IDE1/Master. So if you had a slave device, and you ejected the master, your slave will go bye-bye. Thinking about ways around that, but they dont export too much of the ide driver. I think itd be easy to handle, you just have to make sure youre not using either master or slave whenever you eject one of them.
At least on my laptop, dont go pulling things while your laptop is sleeping. Do it when its awake.
The floppy support should work, but my floppy drive isnt with me right now.
Theres one parameter -- auto_eject. If you set it to 1, the driver will automatically shut down and unregister the IDE interface upon getting a request for ejection (On my T22, I pull a little switch and a lever pops out -- the drive is still connected at that point, but it shows as a request for ejection). If your laptop doesnt have a mechanism for that:
echo -n "MSTR eject" > /proc/acpi/lths
Will shut down and software-eject the drive, and you can safely pull it and insert another.
See the scripts in config/ -- theyre made to work with acpid to handle the ejection and umounting and insertion. The mount/umount stuff only matters for a drive caddy, I suppose.
It shouldnt matter what you have in your laptop at boot. This module also fixes that annoying thing on my T22 where if I dont have a ultrabay battery in at boot, I cant ever see its status.
Enhancements:
- Support for the Fujitsu S7020 (and possibly other laptops using a PATA bay with an SATA main disk).

Old Laptop As Firewall is a single, 1440kb floppy Linux with 16-bit PCMCIA support and PPP for using a Pentium I/II laptop to firewall a dial-up connection.
The floppy is msdos-formatted and uses Syslinux to boot into a 4MB ramdisk with a Minix version 2 filesystem. The system was compiled with uClibc 0.9.28.
Main features:
- 2.4.34 non-modular kernel, compressed with lzma
- uClibc 0.9.28
- busybox 1.4.1
- pcmcia-cs 3.2.8
- pppd 2.4.4b1
- iptables 1.3.7
- dnsmasq 2.35
- 100 kb free on the floppy to add more programs!
Version restrictions:
- OLAF has not been tested with more than one computer behind
- the firewall (I only have two boxes to work with.)
- The supplied chat script probably wont work for many people.
- There currently isnt any support for local timezones.
- The Windows and Mac support is lacking; I dont have
- either OS to work with.
Enhancements:
- The file permissions in /etc/* were changed from 0600 to 0644 on all plain text files except gshadow, shadow, and ppp/pap-secrets.
- The file permissions on /bin/busybox were changed from 0700 to 0755.
- The original permissions were too strict for dnsmasq, which runs as user nobody and couldnt access /etc/hosts.

acpi4asus project is a Linux kernel driver that allows owners of Asus laptops to use all the functionalites of their computers such as special keys, special LEDs, brightness control, ...
Driver (asus_acpi)
This driver provides support for extra features of ACPI-compatible ASUS laptops. It may also support some MEDION, JVC or VICTOR laptops (such as MEDION 9675 or VICTOR XP7210 for example). It makes all the extra buttons generate standard ACPI events that go through /proc/acpi/events, and (on some models) adds support for changing the display brightness and output, switching the LCD backlight on and off, and most importantly, allows you to blink those fancy LEDs intended for reporting mail and wireless status.
Deamon (asus_acpid)
Read the README
Ubuntu users must use the acpi-support package, which should be installed by default since 6.10.
Unsupported Laptops
If your laptop is not supported (see dmesg after modprobe asus_acpi) :
Try # modprobe asus_acpi unsupported=1
# cat /proc/acpi/dsdt > /tmp/YOUR_MODEL.dsdt
and send us YOUR_MODEL.dsdt
Enhancements:
- Use acpi_evaluate_integer instead of read_acpi_int Set CWAP if the method exists
- Add wapf parameter
- Make WORKQUEUE static (thx Adrian)
- Add GPS support
- Fix LightSensors support
- Handle all events (> 0x80 too)
- Some cleanups

Nexenta is a complete GNU-based open source operating system built on top of the OpenSolaris kernel and runtime.
It is a result of our inspiration and desire to build a great system based on the best existing software: SunOS kernel and GNU software. We use Debian - one of the best existing software distribution/packaging mechanisms - to glue the numerous pieces together.
At the moment, Nexenta is not part of the Debian Project. Our packages are not present in the Debian database. We are hoping that in the future this will change and our packages will get their "upstream acceptance".
Nexenta OS has been a hard and challenging work, yet every bit of it is fun! We spent many hours building the system and today it is out - itll start speaking for itself.
Nexenta is completely open source and free of any charge.
It contains Apache, MySQL, Perl/Python/PHP, Firefox, Evolution, software update manager, Synaptic package manager, Gaim Instant Messenger, abiword, administration & development utilities, editors, graphics, GNOME, interpreters, libraries and many others. All of this is running on the state-of-the-art SunOS kernel. Visit our ScreenShots gallery to see them all in action.
Theres a huge and growing multitude of software: the kernel, network services, databases, utilities, user applications. There is a conglomerate of code and hardware that is constantly changing, improving, and altogether getting more complicated. Somebody once rightly said: free software is only free if time has no value. Nexenta distribution integrates well over 2,300 packages. It installs, runs and upgrades. It delivers!
Nexenta software packages (for the most part) are originated from Ubuntu (Breezy) Linux. Ubuntu (yet another excellent distribution that uses DEB software packaging) contains more than 16,000+ software packages. One of our goals is to make them all available for use on top of our environment.
Today Nexenta runs on both 32-bit and 64-bit x86/x64 platforms. As a prove of relative maturity and a confidence booster - this web portal and the entire development environment (including Bugs and HackZone) are powered by Nexenta.
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This is a complete Nexenta OS with select applications on a single CD with network and GNOME environment.
The LiveCD image can be burned into a bootable CD-R/CD-RW, and/or it can be booted in VMWare or QEMU environments. Our LiveCD contains support for 32- and 64-bit x86/x64 platforms.
Main features:
Major Features
- OpenSolaris kernel build 26
Specifically for Desktop:
- GNOME 2.12.1
- Complete GNOME Office (Abiword, Gnumeric, GNOME-DB, Inkspace, GIMP, Gnomemeeting, Dia)
- X.org 6.8.2 with wider hardware support
- Synaptic package management and Automatic Update notifier
- Nexenta artworks with "Solar" theme
- Integrated DBUS, HAL (work in progress)
- KDE libraries, GNOME 1.x libraries
- Nice Fonts collection
Server applications:
- Apache1 (1.3.33), Apache2 (2.0.54) next generation, scalable, extendable web server
- PHP4, PHP5 with all sort of extensions
- Perl 5.8.7 with varios CPAN modules pre-built
- Python-2.2, Python-2.3, Python-2.4 with various extension modules
- Java: JRE-1.5.0 and GNU gnj and classpath
- Ruby-1.8 with all sort of extensions
- Subversion, CVS, others...
Simplified (minimal) installer:
- Script-based installer.
- Automatically makes existing hard drive partitions available to the desktop
"Under the hood"
- Debian packaging (including SUNW packages)
- Mostly compiled with GCC 4.0.1, but GCC-3.4 and Sun Devpro is also used
- More modular X.org packaging, latest CVS bits
- HAL integrational work (ongoing)
Login:
- user: root
- password: livecd

GNOME Panel Applet can display system temperatures, fan speeds and voltage readings from hardware sensors under Linux.
Supported interfaces:
- ACPI thermal zones, via the Linux kernel ACPI modules
- Linux kernel i2c modules (for kernel 2.6).
- lm_sensors and i2c packages (for kernel 2.4)
- Linux kernel i8k module (for Dell Inspiron Laptops).
- Linux kernel PowerPC modules therm_adt746x and therm_windtunnel.
- hddtemp daemon for reading temperatures from S.M.A.R.T. equipped disks.
- Linux kernel Omnibook module.
Includes a simple, yet highly customizable display and intuitive user-interface.
Alarms can be set for each sensor to notify the user once a certain high or low value has been reached, and can be configured to execute a given command at given repeated intervals.
Only requires the standard GNOME libraries (libpanelapplet-2) to install since is written in C.
GNOME HIG v2.0 compliant
NOTE: Debian, Fedora and most other users need to do a ./configure --prefix=/usr to ensure the applet is installed in the correct place.

KHDAPSMonitor project is a system tray monitor for laptops with the Hard Drive Active Proctection System.

This is my first KDE application, and also fills my need of a KDE HDAPS monitor. Written as the existing one here (khdapsmon) has several outstanding issues and is being re-written in python. I dont like python here is khdapsmonitor in C++, and its here to stay.

Gentoo users simply need to emerge khdapsmonitor as I also maintain it in the Gentoo Portage tree.

Laptop Temperature Monitor is a little applet for the GNOME desktop that shows the temperature of your laptop CPU on screen. You can log temperatures to a file as well.

Laptop Temperature Monitor project is free software released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

Installation

tar xzf laptoptemp-0.2.tar.gz
$ cd laptoptemp-0.2
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install