The Asus UL30A is a 13.3-inch screen variant of the Asus UL Series notebooks, featuring the Intel Core 2 Duo SU7300 processor and Intel GMA 4500 integrated graphics card.

• Make: ASUSTek Computer Inc.
• Brand: ASUS
• Model: UL30A

Ubuntu Compatibility - Asus UL30A

This table comes in addition to the Asus UL Series compatibility table.

The Asus UL30A has been verified to work with Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala), 10.04 (Lucid Lynx), 11.04 (Natty Warhal, 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) 32 or 64 bits versions.

• Feature	Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)	Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)
  Display: Advanced Desktop Effects
  HDMI Output
  Suspend
  Hibernate

Legend

• works

  works with tweaking

  does not work

  untested

Hardware Details

Report generated by Sysinfo (sysinfo package, click to install):

System information report, generated by Sysinfo:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gsysinfo

SYSTEM INFORMATION
        Running Ubuntu Linux, the Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid) release.
        GNOME: 2.30.0 (Ubuntu 2010-03-31)
        Kernel version: 2.6.32-22-generic (#33-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 28 13:28:05 UTC 2010)
        GCC: 4.4.3 (x86_64-linux-gnu)
        Xorg: unknown (23 April 2010  05:11:46PM) (23 April 2010  05:11:46PM)
        Hostname: <REMOVED>
        Uptime: 0 days 3 h 30 min

CPU INFORMATION
        GenuineIntel, Genuine Intel(R) CPU           U7300  @ 1.30GHz
        Number of CPUs: 2
        CPU clock currently at 1300.000 MHz with 3072 KB cache
        Numbering: family(6) model(23) stepping(10)
        Bogomips: 2678.43
        Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 xsave lahf_lm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority

MEMORY INFORMATION
        Total memory: 3930 MB
        Total swap: 7812 MB

STORAGE INFORMATION
        SCSI device -  scsi0
                Vendor:  ATA
                Model:  Hitachi HTS54503

HARDWARE INFORMATION
MOTHERBOARD
        Host bridge
                Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
                Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 1c47
        PCI bridge(s)
                Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
                Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
                Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03)
                Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93) (prog-if 01)
                Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
                Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
                Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03)
                Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93) (prog-if 01)
        USB controller(s)
                Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
                Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
                Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
                Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) (prog-if 20)
                Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
                Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
                Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
                Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) (prog-if 20)
                Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
                Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
                Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
                Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) (prog-if 20)
                Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
                Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
                Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
                Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) (prog-if 20)
        ISA bridge
                Intel Corporation ICH9M-E LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
                Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 1c47

GRAPHIC CARD
        VGA controller
                Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
                Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 1862

SOUND CARD
        Multimedia controller
                Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
                Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 1443

NETWORK
        Network controller
                Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
                Subsystem: Device 1a3b:1089
        Ethernet controller
                Atheros Communications Atheros AR8132 / L1c Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev c0)
                Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 14e5

Asus UL30A Users

• oldarney: In ubuntu 11.04 and 11.10 you must remove the nvidia-current package to get unity 3d to work. Otherwise, you will get unity 2D. As mentioned before, there are still random temporary locks when using the trackpad and sleeping on battery.

• Neehilo: Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) 64 bits, upgraded from 9.10 (Karmic Koala). Battery autonomy around 9 hours with Wi-Fi on and wireless mouse USB dongle.

• nashjc: Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) 64 bits. Battery 9-10 hours with Wi-Fi on and wired USB mouse. Some "tapping" problems on tablet solved by using kernel http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.34-lucid/ (even though this is from lucid, it seems to work OK with karmic). Brightness controls (Fn+F6 up, Fn+F5 down) working. HDMI working, but note that System / Preferences / Sound / Hardware / Profile needs to be set to one of the digital (HDMI) settings. 2010-6-9: Upgraded to Lucid (10.04) and tablet still fine, plus webcam now right side up. And adding an Asus BT21 USB Bluetooth made my phone-cam pictures easily available.

• Ubuntu 10.04 32-bit PAE (clean install): Touchpad too sensitive; wireless not entirely stable with default (2.6.32) kernel. Installing linux-image-2.6.36-1-generic-pae kernel (and associated headers) seems to fix Wifi and touchpad issues. Note: If you use Virtualbox-ose, you will likely need to install the lucid backports (3.2.8) version to get it to work because of the kernel module needs to be built against the new kernel. Webcam still upside-down without this workaround

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