ASUS X455LF
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Hardware Information
The laptop's model is X455LF-WX031DC
lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT DRAM Controller (rev 0b) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0b) 00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT HD Audio Controller (rev 0b) 00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Device 0a03 (rev 0b) 00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series USB xHCI HC (rev 04) 00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series HECI #0 (rev 04) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 8 Series HD Audio Controller (rev 04) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev e4) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev e4) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev e4) 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev e4) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series LPC Controller (rev 04) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series SATA Controller 1 [AHCI mode] (rev 04) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 8 Series SMBus Controller (rev 04) 00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series Thermal (rev 04) 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 10) 03:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01) 04:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM108M [GeForce 930M] (rev ff)
lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04f2:b483 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Wired and Wireless Networking
Wireless is working out of the box. Wired networking has not been tested.
There is only one wireless antenna.
Bluetooth
Detectable by other devices, has not been tested.
CPU
Intel® Core™ i3-4005U CPU @ 1.70GHz × 4 ( 2 physical, 2 logical cores)
HDMI Out
Works out of the box, tested with Nvidia binnary driver (364) and intel on board.
Input Devices
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad id=14 [slave pointer (2)] ⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)] ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Video Bus id=8 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Sleep Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Asus WMI hotkeys id=12 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=13 [slave keyboard (3)]
No touchscreen. Fn + Brightness combination doesn't work. Fn + Volume and media control buttons do work. Fn + Screen On/Off works. Fn + Airplane mode doesn't work. On hibernation touchpad becomes unresponsive. Some say boot some parameters fix it. It didn't in my laptop.
Graphics
One can Install Nvidia binary drivers to use the Nvidia card. Tested with nvidia-367. Works as intended. One can use the binary driver's PRIME function to use either Nvidia (High drain, high performance, no hardware video (h264) acceleration meaning vdpau is not accesible? [1] ) or Intel (low drain, hardware video acceleration(h264).
Webcam
Works out of the box.
Storage
*-cdrom description: DVD-RAM writer product: DVDRAM GUE1N vendor: HL-DT-ST physical id: 0.0.0 bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0 logical name: /dev/cdrom logical name: /dev/cdrw logical name: /dev/dvd logical name: /dev/dvdrw logical name: /dev/sr0 version: AS00 capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc
*-disk description: ATA Disk product: TOSHIBA MQ01ABF0 vendor: Toshiba physical id: 0.0.0 bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0 logical name: /dev/sda version: 1J serial: SerialNumber size: 465GiB (500GB)
RAM
Slot 1 is soldered:
description: SODIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1600 MHz (0,6 ns) product: M471B5173EB0-YK0 vendor: Samsung physical id: 1 serial: 00000000 slot: ChannelB-DIMM0 size: 4GiB width: 64 bits clock: 1600MHz (0.6ns)
It has got one free ram slot that is easily accessible using the RAM bay.
BIOS
User can disable Secure Boot. User can't disable Intel HT There is a choice of compatibility mode, it was accessible at first boot. I set it do enabled some time and disabled later. Now it is grayed out(?). User can disable AES-NI User can disable Intel Virtualization.
Battery
Design ~37Wh, Usable ~35Wh ASUS Battery
Thermal
There is a fan that can turn itself off. Sample sensors output while on batter doing light web surfing.
acpitz-virtual-0 Adapter: Virtual device temp1: +49.0°C (crit = +103.0°C) temp2: +27.8°C (crit = +105.0°C) temp3: +29.8°C (crit = +105.0°C) coretemp-isa-0000 Adapter: ISA adapter Physical id 0: +50.0°C (high = +100.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Core 0: +47.0°C (high = +100.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Core 1: +50.0°C (high = +100.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) asus-isa-0000 Adapter: ISA adapter cpu_fan: 0 RPM temp1: +49.0°C
Software Information
Comes with FreeDos. Tested with Ubuntu 16.04 (Linux 4.4.0-38-generic)