House Of Syn

So I finally decided to give my Windows 7 RC a run on my ASUS Pro50SR laptop after running it perfectly fine on my desktop PC.

Installed Windows 7 Ultimate (RC) x86_64 and it detected all my devices automagically… or so I thought.

First problem I noticed trying to use my webcam. The image was upside down, couldnt find anyway to fix the problem. So I decided to download drivers for my webcam directly from http://support.asus.com this didnt really help.

The image was still upside down, how did I fix it? Download the drivers like I had done and edit the file snp2uvc.inf search for “HKR,DefaultSettings,Flip,0×00010001,0″ and replace the last 0 with a 1 so it becomes “HKR,DefaultSettings,Flip,0×00010001,1″. Do the same for “HKR,Settings,Flip,0×00010001,0″. Save the settings, exit and run the install excutable (not actually called install.exe).

After making this change Windows bitched it could not verify the signature of the driver. Click install anyway and reboot… TADA! Your webcam should now work perfectly.

Now for the sound problems, sound works… but it sounds like a bad poorly tuned radio crackling and spitting at you. The drivers from ASUS for the realtek HD audio devices this laptop uses actually makes the problem worse. Only solution i’ve found so far is to download and install the Windows Vista x86_64 drivers, and run the install in compatibility mode for Windows Vista SP2. Now your audio should work perfectly.

Hope that helps. If anyone finds a solution as to why Linux seems to hate this laptop and freezes randomly let me know in the comments or email me directly.

arcanum [at] houseofsyn [dot] com

EDIT: Drivers for the Asus laptop can be found at http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us