Install ubuntu 13.10 in Asus N550JV, along with windows 8.1.

** 2014/04/23 Update:
As ubuntu 14.04 LTS has been released in April 17, 2014, it is strongly recommended to install the LTS version. It is not only stabler, but also perfecter.



** 2013/10/26 Update:
As a whole new installation with the same machine and same OS today, everything works fine so far without modification after apt-get upgrade. There is only one thing has been done and worth to tell from last install, updating both bluetooth and wifi driver from the official website of ASUS, since they didn't work after Windows 8.1.

Have a log of installing ubuntu 13.10 in ASUS N550JV laptop device here. As a log of myself, use in own risk.

First of all, a live USB stick with the latest ubuntu 13.10 image is necessary.

1) UEFI
Press F2 several times when boot to enter the BIOS menu, check if "Fast Boot" and "Secure Boot" have been disabled. A possible further setting is in windows 8: find the setting named something like "power management" and disable the correspond setting of the previous two booting option.
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2) Boot
Let the live usb disk be the only enabled device in boot options inside the BIOS menu, then boot from the live usb with the grub menu, choose try-ubuntu-option.

3) Partitions
The ubuntu installer tells scary "This computer currently has no detected operating systems", although the more than 3Gb, takes over an hour, eye-blind updating process of windows 8.1 has just been finished.

Done the fixpart process and reboot. Scary stills. Choose the manual-option in partition pages of the installer by courage and the trust to linux, do the partition settings manually as always, grub could find windows 8 bootloader after installing and include it as an option item in the grub menu, which is the default boot menu.

4) ACPI
As title:

$sudo apt-get install acpi

5) fn key functions and keyboard backlight.
Edit the kernel argument used when booting: /etc/default/grub, add acpi_osi= to the argument, it would looks like:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_osi="

Then update the grub config by:

$ sudo update-grub

Then reboot for reloading the kernel parameter.

6) bluetooth
syslog indicating the bluetooth plugin loading failed due to GATT disabled, set in /etc/bluetooth/main.conf for:

EnableGatt = true

Add the file /etc/modprobe.d/ath9k.conf with content 

options ath9k btcoex_enable=1

cause errors in loading patch told by syslog to me.

** 2013/10/20 Update:
Bluetooth is going wrong randomly, and the btcoex seems not the main reason; install the package "bluetooth-support" and solve the problem.

7) nouveau
Error also occurs in syslog for nouveau errors, install bumblebee for mixing intel and Nvidia graphical cards.

$sudo apt-get install bumblebee-nvidia nvidia-319 nvidia-settings-319

8) Furthermore
An useful ref is here, including further suggestions.


Then everything works fine to me.