Asus S500CA-RSI5T02 VivoBook Touch

Gnome Primary Monitor

Needed to change the primary monitor on my laptop when using an external monitor.

xrandr --output VGA1 --primary

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Headphone

Probably Related to my Ethernet Trouble, the headphone jack on my new laptop mysteriously stopped working.

Running the following, along with a shutdown/startup cycle fixed the issue. Seems it was related to my card not being detected properly

echo "options snd-hda-intel model=asus" | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

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Ethernet

My ethernet device on my new asus laptop suddenly showed up as cable not plugged in! But it most certainly was plugged in, and a boot into windows showed it worked. I finally got it working by running the following:

ethtool -s p3p1 autoneg off

where p3p1 is the device name.. used to be eth0

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Evoluent Mouse Config

lsusb to get the USBID below, then add the following to file:

/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-evoluent.conf
OR
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-quirks.conf

Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Evoluent"
MatchUSBID "1a7c:0168"
Option "ButtonMapping" "1 4 3 2 5 6 7 8"
EndSection

you will need to log out then back in

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