ASUS ROG GL702ZC

This page is about the Laptop ROG Strix AMD laptop. Runs pretty good out of the box, with some minor issues.

Backlight

Backlight with xorg-xbacklight will not work, see Backlight#light.

Fans

lm_sensors do not detect any interfaces for fan control. However, fan control through NBFC works well; and there is a profile for this laptop. Enabling and starting the service files, and applying the configurations are sufficient.

Troubleshooting

Secure Boot

The BIOS has an utility to load your own BIOS keys; however loading my own keys in the BIOS using the firmware interface did not work.

Fans turn 100% and computer becomes unresponsive after long idle time

Have not found a fix for this, but reporting this issue nonetheless. This might also indicate a hardware failure: certain power control circuitry can fail and require an RMA for a mainboard replacement.

Crashes with MCE

The system will sometimes crash (check the Phoronix thread). The problem seems to be the AMD processor. There is no suggested fix other than RMA; you can check if you are affected by running ryzen kill script. My personal experience is that I have two cores that cause these errors; and I had not have it happen much after configuring fans using nbfc.

To further investigate, check out Machine-check exception

Bluetooth and network issues

The wifi card is of model rtl8822be. Older kernel versions do not have the bluetooth module for this card (>4.19). Also, on 5.2; the rtl cards wifi modules were merged into rtlwifi; which was not working for a while. (See my BBS thread here) Currently, wifi works with the stable kernel; but is noticeably slower than the previous kernel module.