ASUS Handhelds¶

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ASUS ROG Ally / ASUS ROG Ally X¶

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Holding the Armoury Crate button (on the side) allows you to switch to Mouse Mode
Enable the Steam Power Button Handler setting in Handheld Daemon

Changing A/C power sometimes leads to a stuck TDP.
Some users report the mic sounding garbled
Solution to that is to set the mic/input volume to 10%-15% in settings
For Discord you also need to set the input profile in the Discord Settings to voice cancellation.
(Xbox Ally Only) Audio swaps from left to right internal speakers as mono.
This is a known problem that is supposed to be fixed on Kernel 6.19
Some users report that "Auto UMA" in the bios can cause crashes in some games.
If you encounter this, then try setting the VRAM in bios to 4GB or 8GB.
LED indicator is on max brightness by default and cannot be changed on any other operating system outside of Windows.
This is tied to the firmware.
This also affects when the ally is charging and sleeping.
The Ally does not support button holding for the Steam or QAM buttons.
Steam Input's chords do not work by default.
- Swapping the Start/Select button(s) is a workaround.
Suspend can break if SMT is disabled
Fingerprint driver does not work.
Storage shows duplicate drives.
This is a visual bug, do not attempt to format this drive!
Turning on the wake animation when resuming from sleep causes the device to act erratically.
No controls outside of Steam.
Steam's top and bottom panels missing.

Disabled by default to prevent excessive power draw to the device.

More information can be found here about this.