I’m liking this little Asus Chomebook a lot at the moment. I installed Dragonized to a 128G micro sd card and got it running on it and and at 40% battery it said I still had like 6 1/2 hours of battery life. I usually use an overpowered Dell Precision 7510 and I can’t get 6 1/2 hours with both batteries.
It’s not perfect though. The brightness on both the display and the backlit keyboard aren’t adjustable with the keys yet, and I’ve tried more than half the solutions in the arch wiki. I made a bunch of one liner scripts to call up different brightnesses for both but for some reason only root can change the brightnesses, so I keep a shrunken root terminal in the corner for brightness adjustments. It also gets no sound through the laptop speakers and what I’ve read when looking for a solution doesn’t look promising, but the bluetooth works and I do have a nice bluetooth speaker. Anyway, I’m looking forward to carrying a 3 lb laptop instead of the 12 pounder I usually carry.
Anyway, it’s an Asus C425 with an Intel Core m3-8100Y, Intel 615 graphics, 4G RAM, 128G internal storage with Garuda on a 128G UHS-1 micro sd card.
Here’s the inxi:
╭─user@gstick in ~ took 0s
╰─λ sudo inxi -Famz
[sudo] password for user:
System:
Kernel: 6.6.63-1-lts arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
clocksource: tsc avail: acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-lts
root=UUID=203ed048-79f1-4380-a61c-987ab8b58e9c rw rootflags=subvol=@
quiet loglevel=3 ibt=off
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.2.4 tk: Qt v: N/A wm: kwin_wayland dm: SDDM
Distro: Garuda base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Google product: Rammus v: 1.0 serial: <filter>
Chassis: type: 3 serial: N/A
Mobo: Google model: Rammus v: 1.0 serial: <filter> part-nu: sku10337
BIOS: coreboot v: Google_Rammus.11275.224.0 date: 03/15/2021
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 32.1 Wh (97.3%) condition: 33.0/48.1 Wh (68.7%)
volts: 12.5 min: 11.9 model: AS1GVPc C433-41 type: Li-ion serial: <filter>
status: charging cycles: 61
Memory:
System RAM: total: 4 GiB available: 3.73 GiB used: 2.09 GiB (56.0%)
igpu: 64 MiB
Array-1: capacity: N/A slots: 2 note: check modules: 2 EC: N/A
max-module-size: N/A
Device-1: Channel-0-DIMM-0 type: LPDDR3 detail: synchronous size: 2 GiB
speed: 1867 MT/s volts: N/A width (bits): data: 64 total: 64
manufacturer: Samsung part-no: K4E8E324EB-EGCF serial: N/A
Device-2: Channel-1-DIMM-0 type: LPDDR3 detail: synchronous size: 2 GiB
speed: 1867 MT/s volts: N/A width (bits): data: 64 total: 64
manufacturer: Samsung part-no: K4E8E324EB-EGCF serial: N/A
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core m3-8100Y bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Amber/Kaby Lake
note: check level: v3 note: check built: 2017 process: Intel 14nm family: 6
model-id: 0x8E (142) stepping: 9 microcode: 0xF6
Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 2 cores: 2 threads: 4 tpc: 2
smt: enabled cache: L1: 128 KiB desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x32 KiB L2: 512 KiB
desc: 2x256 KiB L3: 4 MiB desc: 1x4 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 400 min/max: 400/3400 scaling: driver: intel_pstate
governor: performance cores: 1: 400 2: 400 3: 400 4: 400 bogomips: 12805
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Vulnerabilities:
Type: gather_data_sampling mitigation: Microcode
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT
vulnerable
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: mmio_stale_data mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: retbleed mitigation: IBRS
Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
prctl
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: IBRS; IBPB: conditional; STIBP: conditional;
RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: Not affected
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 615 driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-9.5
process: Intel 14nm built: 2016-20 ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2,
DP-3, HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2, HDMI-A-3 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:591c
class-ID: 0300
Device-2: IMC Networks USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam driver: uvcvideo type: USB
rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-9:4 chip-ID: 13d3:56d4
class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Display: unspecified server: X.Org v: 24.1.4 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.4
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: modesetting
alternate: fbdev,intel,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: :1 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x286mm (20.00x11.26")
s-diag: 583mm (22.95")
Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: AU Optronics 0x463d built: 2018 res: 1920x1080
hz: 60 dpi: 158 gamma: 1.2 size: 309x174mm (12.17x6.85") diag: 355mm (14")
ratio: 16:9 modes: 1920x1080
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris platforms: device: 0 drv: iris
device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: iris surfaceless: drv: iris x11: drv: iris
inactive: wayland
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 24.2.7-arch1.1
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 615
(AML-KBL) device-ID: 8086:591c memory: 1.82 GiB unified: yes
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.295 layers: 3 device: 0 type: integrated-gpu name: Intel
UHD Graphics 615 (AML-KBL) driver: mesa intel v: 24.2.7-arch1.1
device-ID: 8086:591c surfaces: xcb,xlib device: 1 type: cpu name: llvmpipe
(LLVM 18.1.8 256 bits) driver: mesa llvmpipe v: 24.2.7-arch1.1 (LLVM
18.1.8) device-ID: 10005:0000 surfaces: xcb,xlib
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio driver: snd_soc_skl v: kernel
alternate: snd_hda_intel,snd_soc_avs bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:9d71
class-ID: 0401
API: ALSA v: k6.6.63-1-lts status: kernel-api tools: N/A
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.2.7 status: n/a (root, process) with:
1: pipewire-pulse status: active 2: wireplumber status: active
3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Intel Wireless 7265 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie: gen: 1
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:095a class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp1s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Info: services: NetworkManager, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB
rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-3:3 chip-ID: 8087:0a2a
class-ID: e001
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
rfk-block: hardware: no software: no address: <filter> bt-v: 4.2 lmp-v: 8
status: discoverable: no pairing: no
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 234.23 GiB used: 12.55 GiB (5.4%)
ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 maj-min: 179:0 vendor: SanDisk model: DA4128
size: 116.48 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: Removable
tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 0x8 scheme: GPT
SMART Message: Unknown smartctl error. Unable to generate data.
ID-2: /dev/mmcblk1 maj-min: 179:24 model: USD00 size: 117.75 GiB
block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: Removable tech: SSD
serial: <filter> scheme: MBR
SMART Message: Unknown smartctl error. Unable to generate data.
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 32 GiB size: 32 GiB (100.00%) used: 10.98 GiB (34.3%)
fs: btrfs block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/mmcblk1p1 maj-min: 179:25
ID-2: /home raw-size: 85.75 GiB size: 85.75 GiB (100.00%)
used: 1.57 GiB (1.8%) fs: btrfs block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/mmcblk1p2
maj-min: 179:26
ID-3: /var/log raw-size: 32 GiB size: 32 GiB (100.00%)
used: 10.98 GiB (34.3%) fs: btrfs block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/mmcblk1p1
maj-min: 179:25
ID-4: /var/tmp raw-size: 32 GiB size: 32 GiB (100.00%)
used: 10.98 GiB (34.3%) fs: btrfs block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/mmcblk1p1
maj-min: 179:25
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 1 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: no
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 3.73 GiB used: 922 MiB (24.2%) priority: 100
comp: zstd avail: lzo,lzo-rle,lz4,lz4hc,842 max-streams: 4 dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 47.0 C pch: 39.5 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Processes: 227 Power: uptime: 39m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
avail: s2idle wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot,
suspend, test_resume image: 1.48 GiB services: org_kde_powerdevil,
power-profiles-daemon, upowerd Init: systemd v: 256 default: graphical
tool: systemctl
Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1382 libs: 381 tools: octopi,pamac,paru
Compilers: gcc: 14.2.1 Shell: Sudo (sudo) v: 1.9.16p2 default: Bash
v: 5.2.37 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.36