ASUS Zenbook UX534

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Asus Zenbook UX533FTC also suffers from the same bugs. There are some hardware revisions or something, but UX533FTC should be added here as well. Using
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UX534
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Hardware
PCI/USB ID
Working?
GPU (Intel)
Yes
GPU (Nvidia)
Yes
Wireless
Yes
Audio
Yes
Touchpad
Yes
Webcam
Yes
Card reader
Yes
Bluetooth
Yes
Face recognition sensor
Yes
ASUS
UX334
,
UX434
and
UX534
models with
ScreenPad™ 2.0
. These models most probably share almost the same hardware (the only difference is screen size and discrete NVidia GPU, and missing Display Port Alt-Mode on some models, even 15 inch seems to not include USB-C DP Altmode -), this article covers hardware specific configuration for all ZenBook 13 (UX334), ZenBook 14 (UX434) and ZenBook 15 (UX534).
However the first author is testing on an UX534FTC Full HD (no 4K), with NVidia GTX1650 Max-Q and a 10th generation  10510U Core I7.
Configuration
Secure Boot
In order to boot Arch (or any OS not supporting
Secure Boot
), enter the UEFI parameters by holding
F2
(or
ESC
key and then selecting "Firmware Setup"), then navigate with the keyboard arrows to the "Security" tab and set "Secure Boot" to
Off
.
Video
See
Intel Graphics
and
Hardware Acceleration
. For models with discrete Nvidia graphics card, also see
NVIDIA Optimus
.
The Screenpad works as a secondary display and is completely separate from the touchpad: you just have a (non-touch) second screen under your fingers. Therefore it can be deactivated like any other display using one's
Desktop environment
settings for example, thus lowering power consumption while leaving the touchpad functionality intact.
The Screenpad requires a 'Rotation Portrait Left' and is most useful with a scale factor of 200% (Wayland allows to set a different scale factor of 100% if the main screen in only the Full HD version). If you dual boot, brightness is kept from the last Windows setting.
To change the Screenpad brightness, you can install the custom kernel module asus-wmi:
https://github.com/Plippo/asus-wmi-screenpad
Touchpad
See
Libinput
. See Screenpad in
#Video
Facerecognition login
This computer has built-in face recognition sensor. 
You can use it with the project Howdy
[1]
.
See the
howdy
page for further informations.
Battery charge threshold
See
Laptop/ASUS#Battery charge threshold
.
Troubleshooting
Suspend
See
Power management/Suspend and hibernate#Changing suspend method
.
When activating suspend-to-ram, the sound is crackling (and not working for regular use) at wake-up.
An ugly fix is to reset the sound card (either inserting/removing a jack, or with the following scripts)
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Create the following script (do not forget to make it
executable
):
/etc/systemd/system/audio-wake-up.sh
#!/bin/sh
echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:1f.3/remove
echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/rescan
Create the following service:
/etc/systemd/system/audio-fix-wakeup.service
[Unit]
Description=Fix internal audio restore after Deep sleep  on ASUS Zenbook UX533/534
After=suspend.target hibernate.target hybrid-sleep.target suspend-then-hibernate.target

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/bin/audio-wake-up.sh

[Install]
# Make it part of the sound initialization routine
WantedBy=suspend.target hibernate.target hybrid-sleep.target suspend-then-hibernate.target
Enable
audio-fix-wakeup.service
.
Tips and tricks
Power saving and performance
As advertised by ASUS, these laptops are capable to last up to 9 hours on battery. In order to achieve this, see:
BIOS update - It is generally recommended to update BIOS, as it usually brings performance, power-saving and security features.
Power Saving
- List of general recommendations to increase battery life.
Improving performance
- List of general recommendations to increase performance.
SSD
- Tips and tricks for Solid State Drives. These three laptops ship M.2 SSD by default.
Undervolting CPU
- Decrease voltage for Intel CPU (reduce battery drain, reduce heat and therefore - reduce fan speed)
Bumblebee
- If using bumbleblee and optimus, install 'bbswitch' to allow a good shutdown of NVidia Card ('nvidia-smi' return error if NVidia is power off, or information if it is in use)
UX534FT FHD perfom perfectly with Gnome 3, Bumblebee (bbswitch activated), Konkor (Gnome-extension) with Governor 'Power Save' does :
10h+ (more than 10 hours probably arround 12h or more) watching a video from network using VLC with bluetooth audio, low brightness (not lowest)
7.5h+ with brightness arround 60% watching a Youtube Video and using Firefox
? h (TODO) in heavy duty task (for example 'optirun' task using discrete Nvidia GPU