A collection of guides and tutorials for various topics that I have written.
The known working BIOS version is 1.0.
To start make sure you have set the following BIOS settings:
In order for windows 11 to still work and boot keep TPM enabled.
No settings to change or ensure are set.
The current known working installation method is to use archboot x86_64.
Use Balena Etcher to write the ISO to a USB stick and plug it in to the left USB port (Known to work). On boot keep pressing F12 and select the USB stick.
Go trough the installation process as normal but use EFISTUB as the bootloader. When prompted to install optinal packages install linux-firmware and linux-headers it is important to click yes.
After instalation you should be greeted with a terminal. You should automatically be connected to the internet from the configuration you did during the installation.
KDE Plasma is known to work well with the hardware.
Update the system:
pacman -Syu
Install the necessary packages:
pacman -S xorg sddm
pacman -S plasma kde-applications
In order for the login page to show up on boot you need to enable the display manager.
sudo systemctl enable sddm
systemctl enable sddm
In order to change networks and connect to the internet you need to enable the network manager.
systemctl enable NetworkManager
If you use SDDM as it is right now you will have a the default theme.
To use the breeze theme you need to edit the configuration file.
nano /usr/lib/sddm/sddm.conf.d/default.conf
And set the theme to breeze.
[Theme]
Current=breeze
After you have done all the steps above you can reboot the system.
systemctl reboot
If you plan to use multiple users you should configure sudo.
Switch to a TTY by pressing Ctrl + Alt + F2 and login with your root account.
pacman -S sudo
nano /etc/sudoers
Add the following line to the file:
USER ALL=(ALL) ALL
Replace USER with your username.
After you have done all the steps above you can reboot the system.
systemctl reboot
Sometimes the network can be a bit flaky. If you have issues connecting to the internet try the following:
sudo pacman -S wireless_tools
sudo pacman -S wpa_supplicant
sudo pacman -S netctl dialog dhcpcd dhclient
After being on standby the laptop can sometimes have issues connecting to the internet on Wi-Fi. This is becuse the iwlwifi module crashes and enters a loop of starting and crashing. To fix this simply reload the kernel module.
sudo modprobe -r iwlmvm iwlwifi
sudo modprobe iwlmvm iwlwifi
Sometimes the system can get stuck on shutdown with this message:
[ ***] A stop job is running for User Manager for UID 1000
To fix this you need to disable baloo.
balooctl6 disable
Bluetooth is known to work if you have the necessary packages installed and the service is running.
sudo pacman -S bluez bluez-utils
sudo pacman -S bluetoothctl
sudo systemctl enable bluetooth
sudo systemctl start bluetooth
OpenRazer is known to work with the keyboard backlight. But I have not attempted to install it.
The intergrated GPU is known to work out of the box. The NVIDIA GPU needs the proprietary drivers to work. I have not attempted to install them.