This Git repo describes how I setup the ASUS Zephyrus G14 (GA401IV) with Fedora 33 including a GNOME Shell extension to switch between GPUs and ROG profiles.

1. Install Fedora 33

2. Boot to your installation and update everything

dnf update
dnf install tlp tlp-rdw brightnessctl

tlp is used for automatic power management for some hardware components (so you don't have to powertop --auto-tune) brightnessctl is used for controlling the keyboard backlight before and after suspend as there is a bug that the keyboard backlight sometimes does not switch completely off while suspending.

3. Reboot

4. copy all the files to the appropriate directories

git clone https://github.com/hyphone/asus-g14-fedora.git
cd asus-g14-fedora
cp -R etc/* /etc/
cp -R usr/* /usr/
chmod +x /usr/sbin/asusboot
chmod a+x /usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep/asus_keyboard_backlight
systemd-hwdb update
udevadm trigger

we clone this repo

we go to the repo directory

we copy everything in this repo of etc to /etc/

we copy everything in this repo of usr to /usr/

we make the script /usr/sbin/asusboot and /usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep/asus_keyboard_backlight executable

mod the keyboard that page up / down is mapped to fn+up/down you can use brightnessctl -d asus::kbd_backlight s +1 and brightnessctl -d asus::kbd_backlight s 1- and map this to a key of your choice in your DE

5. Update the repos and install some packages

dnf update

5.1 reboot to make sure you are on the newest Kernel

reboot

5.2 install some packages

dnf install kernel-devel akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda asus-nb-ctrl dkms-hid-asus-rog dkms-asus-rog-nb-wmi akmod-acpi_call

akmod-nvidia and xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda installs the Nvidia driver

asus-nb-ctrl dkms-hid-asus-rog dkms-asus-rog-nb-wmi installs the currently necesary Kernel modules from asus-linux.org to get the function keys and custom fan control working

kernel-devel is necesarry for the dynamic kernel modules to compile

acpi_call modules from the tlp repo is needed to make the custom fan control working

6. Enable the custom services

systemctl enable asusboot.service

asusboot.service removes and adds again the i2c_hid modules because on Fedora 33 the touchpad sometimes is not initialized correctly on boot. This fixes this.

5. Reboot

6. You can switch AMD / Nvidia on demand via the gnome extension or with "asusctl graphics -m (graphics mode)"

etc/asusd/asusd.conf

These are my custom fan curves for the asusd service from asus-linux.org. When on AC I usually use "normal" because of turbo is enabled with the default silent fan profile of the laptop. On "silent" I disabled turbo and I usually use this while on battery. This has a custom fan curve to make it silent.

etc/modprobe.d/asus.conf

Enables Nvidia power management and blacklists conflicting modules

etc/systemd/system/asusboot.service

removes and adds again the i2c_hid modules because on Fedora 32 the touchpad sometimes is not initialized correctly on boot. This fixes this.

etc/tlp.conf

marginal adjusted tlp configuration with the CPU gonvenor set to "ondemand" on AC and "powersave" on BAT. Also max CPU frequency on BAT is limited to 1,7GHz.

usr/sbin/asusboot

called by asusboot.service, gets called on boot and resets the i2c_hid modules because on Fedora 33 the touchpad sometimes is not initialized correctly on boot. This fixes this.