ASUS K55VD – ArchWiki

Hardware
PCI/USB ID
Working?

Bluetooth

Yes

Webcam

Yes

Touchpad

Yes

GPU (Intel)
8086:0166
Yes

GPU (NVIDIA)1
10de:1058
No

Ethernet
10ec:8168
Untested

Audio
8086:1e20
Yes

Wireless
168c:0032
Yes

Express Card Reader
10ec:5289
Untested

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Installation

By default, the MTRR size is not set correctly and the MDS bug is present. To set the MTRR size correctly and avoid memory loss, add enable_mtrr_cleanup mtrr_spare_reg_nr=1 mtrr_gran_size=32M mtrr_chunk_size=128M to the kernel parameters.

To mitigate MDS, add mds=full,nosmt. The nosmt option disables simultaneous multi-threading so if the decrease in performance is too much, use mds=full instead.

Firmware

BIOS updates are only done manually:

1. Download the latest BIOS image
2. Plug a USB drive and format it to FAT32
   1. Find the USB drive’s name with fdisk -l
   2. Install
   3. Format the USB drive to FAT32
3. Copy K55VDAS.xxx file to the USB drive
4. Restart the PC and open BIOS with F2
5. Get to the Advanced menu
6. Select Start Easy Flash
7. Select the K55VDAS.xxx with arrow keys and enter.

UEFI Shell

Few ASUS laptops (and also K55VD) provide an option called Launch EFI Shell from filesystem device. It is not accessible by default but can be accessible by following the given instructions at Unified Extensible Firmware Interface#Launching UEFI Shell

Function keys

Key

Visible?1

Marked?2

Effect

Fn+F1
Yes
Yes
XF86Sleep
Fn+F2
Yes
Yes
XF86RFKill
Fn+F3
Yes
No
XF86Mail
Fn+F4
Yes
No
XF86WWW
Fn+F5
Yes
Yes
XF86MonBrightnessDown
Fn+F6
Yes
Yes
XF86MonBrightnessUp
Fn+F7
Yes
Yes
XF86ScreenSaver
Fn+F8
Yes3
Yes
Super+P
Fn+F9
Yes
Yes
XF86TouchpadToggle
Fn+F10
Yes
Yes
XF86AudioMute
Fn+F11
Yes
Yes
XF86AudioLowerVolume
Fn+F12
Yes
Yes
XF86AudioRaiseVolume
Fn+T
Yes
No
XF86Phone
Fn+C
Yes
Yes
XF86Launch1
Fn+V
Yes
Yes
XF86WebCam
Fn+NumPadReturn
Yes
Yes
XF86Calculator

1. The key is visible to xev and similar tools.
2. The physical key has a symbol on it, which describes its function.
3. Redirects to Super + P for some reason.

See also