Feedback on the Asus X55U

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Still an issue

I cannot understand why Ubuntu is preinstalled on so bad configuration. AMD-drivers is really BAD. Tried Opensuse,Kubuntu,Xubuntu, Ubuntu with different kernels from 3.0 to 3.13).. An issue still.. It seems to be kernel-related. Windows8.1 are working well at same laptop. Hope the problem will be solved soon. Thanks

tried kubuntu on this laptop one day ago. fresh install. linux kernel 3.14.1 with no third-party programs or drivers(everything worked with kernel drivers). experienced a full freeze again. so it is linux-related issue(tried all kernels from 3.0 to 3.14 on different linux distros).

Hi,
I am sorry that you had such an annoyed problem.
I think you may file a full bug report to provide the needed information for you.
The more accurate information we have, the more possible and sooner your question/bug will be solved.
You may refer to this page to file a bug:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs

i have found a solution at http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Lockups-Freezes-Hangs/HP-Pavilion-DM1-4033ef-linux-freezes-randomly/m-p/1667953#M26569
can somebody check?

this solution doesnt work.... http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Lockups-Freezes-Hangs/HP-Pavilion-DM1-4033ef-linux-freezes-randomly/m-p/1667953#M26569 also tried to turn off all the thermal sensors, didnt worked.

Hello,
Since we don't have the hardware,
I will suggest you to open a bug for this, it will be helpful to get it fixed.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs

Another suggestion is to install the proprietary video driver.
Sometimes it could solve the freeze problem.

Good Luck.

cypressyew, i tried to install proprietary video driver, it doesnt help

Hmm... that's odd
Then I think you would need to open a bug. Since the one you linked here is pretty old.
And this issue might be hardware specific.

Another possibility is that this could be a hardware issue (e.g. broken memory... etc)
You could run memtest to check the memory.

Cheers.

cypressyew, i have checked EVERYTHING(and Win8.1 works great on the same laptop). I think it's hardware-specific, because the windows 8 power management system(cmd.exe, 'powercfg -energy') says that the hardware has known problems with PCI-E ASPM, and it is turned off). Will check this within 2 days.

PCI-E ASPM was disabled by kernel, so the problem is NOT resolved..

at last time ubuntu freezed with log:

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May 6 00:40:51 MAKAWOTA-ZLTET anacron[5404]: Anacron 2.3 started on 2014-05-06
May 6 00:40:51 MAKAWOTA-ZLTET anacron[5404]: Will run job `cron.daily' in 5 min.
May 6 00:40:51 MAKAWOTA-ZLTET anacron[5404]: Jobs will be executed sequentially
May 6 00:40:52 MAKAWOTA-ZLTET kernel: [ 4525.551989] EXT4-fs (sda7): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro,commit=0
May 6 00:40:52 MAKAWOTA-ZLTET kernel: [ 4525.765859] NMI watchdog enabled, takes one hw-pmu counter.
May 6 00:40:52 MAKAWOTA-ZLTET kernel: [ 4525.766082] NMI watchdog enabled, takes one hw-pmu counter.
May 6 00:40:53 MAKAWOTA-ZLTET kernel: [ 4525.872277] ehci_hcd 0000:00:12.2: BAR 0: set to [mem 0xfeb4b000-0xfeb4b0ff] (PCI address [0xfeb4b000-0xfeb4b0ff])
May 6 00:40:53 MAKAWOTA-ZLTET kernel: [ 4525.872331] ehci_hcd 0000:00:12.2: restoring config space at offset 0x1 (was 0x2b00000, writing 0x2b00013)
May 6 00:40:53 MAKAWOTA-ZLTET kernel: [ 4525.872435] ehci_hcd 0000:00:12.2: PME# disabled
May 6 00:40:53 MAKAWOTA-ZLTET kernel: [ 4525.872453] ehci_hcd 0000:00:12.2: PCI INT B -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
May 6 00:40:53 MAKAWOTA-ZLTET kernel: [ 4526.032233] xhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: PME# disabled
May 6 00:40:53 MAKAWOTA-ZLTET kernel: [ 4526.032257] xhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: setting latency timer to 64
May 6 00:41:28 MAKAWOTA-ZLTET kernel: [ 4561.093627] ===>rt_ioctl_giwscan. 4(4) BSS returned, data->length = 815
May 6 00:42:03 MAKAWOTA-ZLTET kernel: [ 4596.112308] RT3290_AsicTxAlcGetAutoAgcOffset: Incorrect desired TSSI or current TSSI
May 6 00:42:21 MAKAWOTA-ZLTET kernel: [ 4614.116748] bcb, flush one!
May 6 00:42:22 MAKAWOTA-ZLTET kernel: [ 4615.529372] be3, flush one!
May 6 00:42:31 MAKAWOTA-ZLTET kernel: [ 4624.116199] RT3290_AsicTxAlcGetAutoAgcOffset: Incorrect desired TSSI or current TSSI
May 6 00:42:59 MAKAWOTA-ZLTET kernel: [ 4652.132315] RT3290_AsicTxAlcGetAutoAgcOffset: Incorrect desired TSSI or current TSSI
May 6 00:43:28 MAKAWOTA-ZLTET kernel: [ 4681.133848] ===>rt_ioctl_giwscan. 4(4) BSS returned, data->length = 928
May 6 00:43:43 MAKAWOTA-ZLTET kernel: [ 4696.152251] RT3290_AsicTxAlcGetAutoAgcOffset: Incorrect desired TSSI or current TSSI
May 6 00:44:11 MAKAWOTA-ZLTET kernel: [ 4724.152159] RT3290_AsicTxAlcGetAutoAgcOffset: Incorrect desired TSSI or current TSSI
May 6 00:44:33 MAKAWOTA-ZLTET kernel: [ 4745.946569] e2a, flush one!
May 6 00:44:38 MAKAWOTA-ZLTET kernel: [ 4751.272501] e87, flush one!
May 6 00:44:40 MAKAWOTA-ZLTET kernel: [ 4753.453359] eb1, flush one!
May 6 00:44:45 MAKAWOTA-ZLTET kernel: [ 4758.099101] f0d, flush one!
May 6 00:44:47 MAKAWOTA-ZLTET kernel: [ 4760.511243] f2c, flush one!
May 6 00:44:50 MAKAWOTA-ZLTET kernel: [ 4763.044279] f53, flush one!
May 6 00:44:53 MAKAWOTA-ZLTET kernel: [ 4766.637103] ff1, flush one!
May 6 00:45:05 MAKAWOTA-ZLTET kernel: [ 4778.372578] 16a, flush one!
May 6 00:45:28 MAKAWOTA-ZLTET kernel: [ 4801.597553] ===>rt_ioctl_giwscan. 4(4) BSS returned, data->length = 871
May 6 00:45:51 MAKAWOTA-ZLTET anacron[5404]: Job `cron.daily' started
May 6 00:45:51 MAKAWOTA-ZLTET anacron[6119]: Updated timestamp for job `cron.daily' to 2014-05-06
[HARD LOCKUP after the last line]
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so i suspect hard lockups may be caused by anacron(already turn it off).

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nothing helped. there is an issue in the linux kernel. i dont know what to do

Hello fastinfader,
Sorry for you still having this issue.

But again,
I would strongly recommend you to open a bug.
It's difficult to get it fixed here, however, you will have a bigger chance to have it fixed by reporting it.
Please use "ubuntu-bug linux" command to report it in your terminal.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs

It seems the problem solved. I'm using Kubuntu 14.04 now (Linux kernel v3.13) with no any freezes.