ASUS X553MA

This article covers configuration specific to this laptop's hardware.

HardwarePCI/USB IDWorking?
BluetoothNo
GPUYes
TouchpadYes
WirelessYes

Hardware

Bluetooth adapter

Installing the Broadcom wireless#broadcom-wl driver will not help and the Bluetooth adapter is essentially inoperational.

Touchpad

Install xf86-input-libinput.

Wireless NIC

See Broadcom wireless#broadcom-wl.

Warning: Using the proprietary driver in tandem with KMS leads to sporadic lockups. See this kernel bug report.
Note: The FLOSS driver b43 does not support LCN40 PHYs (as demonstrated that BCM43142, the chip this laptop sports, is one here) yet.

Troubleshooting

Laptop freezes on boot

If your laptop freezes whilst booting Linux, usually, one of these solutions will help:

  1. Blacklist modules dw_dmac and dw_dmac_core:
    1. By adding the kernel parameter modprobe.blacklist=dw_dmac,dw_dmac_core.
    2. By adding these lines to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf:
  2. Set the BIOS setting in the menu to .
  3. Update kernel to version which has a fix as described in this kernel bug report.
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