Issues With Dual Booting of Asus Vivobook/Zenbook series laptops with Ubuntu 22.04 (S14, Filp 13, pro 14, pro 15 etc)

Question

I’ve encountered several problems (on my own & found over internet) with dual booting of latest LTS Ubuntu 22.04 along with windows 11 for Asus laptop models (using Asus Vivobook S14 S3402ZA)

version: Ubuntu 22.04.1 with kernel 5.15.7

Problems encountered

1. Not Showing USB boot option (directly goes to windows as default)
2. Storage not detecting (when trying to install)
3. Keyboard not detecting but external keyboard working (issue/bug reported with some of latest vivobook/zenbook models)
4. Cannot get in to dual booted after Ubuntu install - (asking encryption key)
5. Fingerprint scanner not detecting and occasional lags and stuck with UI on Ubuntu (especially with browser)
6. Is there any better options for battery saving like reducing refresh rate (showing fixed 90Hz) for Ubuntu.

Can someone provide instructions for new/intermediate users to install and use Ubuntu/linux distributions on these laptop models.

Edit: Posted as a self answered question, found solutions for mentioned issues 1 - 4 and 6 which are added in the answer but needed solution for fingerprint scanner detection(if available), tried some solutions but not worked.

Answer 1

Answering to my own question,

TLDR : The solution to particular problems mentioned in question are numbered along with the steps)

Complete Step-by-Step procedure that worked for me to dual boot Ubuntu 22.04 along with Windows 11 on my Laptop (Asus Vivobook S14 S3402ZA) - key specs

• Intel i5 12th gen
• Iris Xe graphics, with oled 90hz display

Dual boot Ubuntu

• Download the ISO file from official Ubuntu website.

• On windows do a win+r → msinfo32 to get BIOS mode information, check that it is UEFI.

• Requisites for install- windows 11 or 10 system, 8 GB or higher pendrive, 50+ GB Harddrive

• Download rufus tool to flash ISO to pendrive.

• Search for “Disc Management” in windows and find the main partition, Also check the disc partition type MBR or GPT , from right clicking any partition → properties → volume, (For UEFI BIOS the partition will be GPT).

• Right click the partition, shrink volume, here we are adding a space of 140 GB for Ubuntu from available.

  

• Insert the pendrive, backup if any files present in it, if it is already a bootable clean it using diskpart

  # on windows cmd open diskpart
  diskpart
  list disks
  list disk
  find the disk here it is disc 1 (sandisk USB), select your disk
  select disk 1
  verify disk
  detail disk
  perform cleaning
  clean
  create primary partition (try repeat if failing)
  create partition primary
  Activate the partition
  active
  Finally format back to ntfs/fat32 as required (here fat32)
  format fs=fat32 quick
  format fs=ntfs quick
  

• Open rufus as administrator, choose the following options , base boot image, Also choose the recommended “ISO Image mode” for writing after clicking start.

  

• Turn off windows Bitlocker encryption for Harddrive - as in the following step we are going to disable secure boot, windows will ask to manually enter the encryption key the next time you log on. So consider turning off the storage encryption in settings →Usage & Security, [Solves the problem 4]

• BIOS settings that need to changed, (for asus BIOS panel press F2 while Turning on after asus logo appears) (To hard power off - press the power button key for 15 seconds - you may need it), video for asus boot.

  1. Fast Boot (Turn off fast boot) - [ Solves problem 1]
  2. Secure Boot (Disable Secure Boot) - [ Solves problem 2]
  3. Change the boot order to make the USB one first on BIOS Home page. [Solves Problem 1]

• Now a GRUB window will open up with “Try or Install Ubuntu” option, click and it will first do some file checks.

• Before installing Ubuntu 22.04, just try it out for checking any hardware incompatibility - (Here encountered a major problem for my laptop - the keyboard is not working with Ubuntu - only external keyboard working - [Problem 3])

• Opt to install Ubuntu, use an external keyboard - will fix the internal keyboard problem later,

  Created partitions from already allocated SSD free space,

  1. ROOT PARTITION - / - 85 GB
  2. Home partition - /home - 52 GB
  3. SWAP - rest of the size (around 8 GB ~ half of RAM Size) - not mandatory as there is enough RAM.

  No need to create a separate efi partition as efi partition for windows already exists, ubuntu grub will be installed and loaded from it.

• Now choose the other options and install Ubuntu, click restart, pull out pendrive and press enter.

• Deal with Keyboard Issue - Downloaded the kernel files that listed here (with live patch applied - pre-built- v 5.19.5), move all to a single location and install them with

  sudo dpkg -i *.deb
  

  Or you can apply patch and build your own kernel with the steps mentioned here -

  Vivibook S14 OLED (S3402) keyboard not detected Thanks @amitdalal for the excellent answer.

  [ Solves the problem 3 - see the below step too]

• [Update - read this if you got time for compiling, Also the official fix will be available in kernel version 6.1]

  Noted that with the pre-built-custom-patch kernel 5.19.5 from the above step got some issues that the display refresh rate cannot be adjusted and high battery usage even with power saver mode.

  Tried custom building from new version of mainline kernel from kernel.org that introduces some new issues Stated Here.

  Finally settled with patching incoming source Ubuntu kernel that gives 60Hz support and better battery life.

  Follow these steps to do that - https://askubuntu.com/a/1435592/1172766

  [Solves Problem 6]

• Problem 5 still unresolved,

  It shows the fingerprint reader hardware with lsusb and tried to update the fingerprint library with,

  sudo apt install fprintd libfprint-2-2
  

  But the fingerprint option not showing in Settings -> Users,

  Decreasing the screen timeout, using system-wide dark mode, will help reduce power usage, using tlp will also help.