ASUS Q500A
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Booting
Press Esc to get to the boot menu.
You are able to use efibootmgr for adding bootloaders or even EFISTUB kernels.
Booting without Secure Boot
You are able to disable Secure Boot using the firmware setup menu.
Booting with Secure Boot
Read Secure Boot for more information on how to generate firmware keys.
In order to change the firmware keys, you must enter the UEFI firmware setup menu. Enable the Secure Boot option. There should be an option below the Secure Boot toggle for changing UEFI firmware keys.
The UEFI firmware will accept user-generated .auth keys.
Display
Backlight is supported through xorg-xbacklight. Make sure you bind Fn+F5
and Fn+F6
to use xbacklight
.
1920x1080 Models
DPI is not automatically detected on the 1920x1080 15.6 inch display. This might cause readability issues. The display is approximately 144 DPI.
An example Xorg configuration file:
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-monitor.conf
Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" DisplaySize 338 190 EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Monitor "Monitor0" EndSection
1366x768 Models
The DPI is approximately 96 DPI which is the default Xorg setting.
See Also
- Laptop
- Keyboard backlight#Asus[broken link: invalid section]