Dear manjaro users,
Any chance somebody has acquired an HP victus with the radeon 5500m recently who could report on the hardware compatibility or report any issues running manjaro? Can’t find much on reddit etc.
@nam1962
I noticed you had fixable issues with the realtek card… Any other issues or does everything else work smoothly eg. suspend /wake, hdmi out etc.
A hardware report on this laptop would be greatly appreciated…
Hi @socrates
I have one for my future pro activity and am setting one for a friend.
Mine :
~]$ inxi -Fm
System:
Host: ordi1 Kernel: 5.15.2-2-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0
Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: HP product: Victus by HP Laptop 16-e0xxx v: N/A
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: HP model: 8934 v: 80.72 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: AMI
v: F.11 date: 09/14/2021
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 46.3 Wh (64.8%) condition: 71.5/71.5 Wh (100.0%)
volts: 15.4 min: 15.4
Memory:
RAM: total: 15.04 GiB used: 2.58 GiB (17.2%)
RAM Report:
permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 5600H with Radeon Graphics bits: 64
type: MT MCP cache: L2: 3 MiB
Speed: 1715 MHz min/max: 1200/3300 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1328 2: 1823
3: 1521 4: 1916 5: 1198 6: 1912 7: 1286 8: 1292 9: 1396 10: 2293 11: 3320
12: 1277
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Navi 14 [Radeon RX 5500/5500M / Pro 5500M] driver: amdgpu
v: kernel
Device-2: AMD Cezanne driver: amdgpu v: kernel
Device-3: Quanta HP Wide Vision HD Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.21.1.1 driver: loaded: amdgpu,ati
unloaded: modesetting,radeon resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: AMD RENOIR (DRM 3.42.0 5.15.2-2-MANJARO LLVM 13.0.0)
v: 4.6 Mesa 21.2.5
Audio:
Device-1: AMD Navi 10 HDMI Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
Device-2: AMD driver: snd_hda_intel
Device-3: AMD Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor
driver: snd_rn_pci_acp3x
Device-4: AMD Family 17h HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.2-2-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
driver: r8169
IF: eno1 state: down mac: e0:70:ea:b5:a2:4d
Device-2: Realtek driver: rtw89_pci
IF: wlo1 state: up mac: 14:13:33:0e:82:af
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: USB driver: btusb
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: see --recommends
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.38 TiB used: 865.42 GiB (61.4%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital
model: PC SN730 SDBPNTY-512G-1006 size: 476.94 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sda type: USB vendor: Toshiba model: External USB 3.0
size: 931.51 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 369.32 GiB used: 182.14 GiB (49.3%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 256 MiB used: 65 MiB (25.4%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 16 GiB used: 512 KiB (0.0%) file: /swapfile
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 49.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
GPU: device: amdgpu temp: 44.0 C device: amdgpu temp: 43.0 C fan: 65535
Info:
Processes: 309 Uptime: 1h 26m Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.09
Everything seems functional, didn’t test HDMI yet.
Sound is not @ par with W$11, even with easyeffects (didn’t test jamesDSP yet)
Wifi card is really good and surprisingly gets 5ghz on a longer distance than 2.4 (it’s the opposite on my old Asus & on my old iPhone)
Didn’t test hybrid GPU as I don’t now how to ! 
My friend’s Victus:
:~$ inxi -Fm
System:
Host: perso Kernel: 5.14.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: HP product: Victus by HP Laptop 16-e0xxx v: N/A
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: HP model: 8934 v: 80.72 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: AMI
v: F.11 date: 09/14/2021
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 65.0 Wh condition: 69.8/69.8 Wh (100%)
Memory:
RAM: total: 14.98 GiB used: 1.12 GiB (7.5%)
RAM Report:
permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 5600H with Radeon Graphics bits: 64
type: MT MCP L2 cache: 3 MiB
Speed: 1197 MHz min/max: 1200/3300 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1197 2: 1197
3: 1197 4: 1197 5: 1197 6: 1197 7: 1396 8: 1397 9: 1397 10: 1397 11: 1198
12: 1197
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Navi 14 [Radeon RX 5500/5500M / Pro 5500M] driver: amdgpu
v: kernel
Device-2: AMD Cezanne driver: amdgpu v: kernel
Device-3: Luxvisions Innotech Limited HP Wide Vision HD Camera type: USB
driver: uvcvideo
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: amdgpu,ati
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,radeon,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: AMD RENOIR (DRM 3.42.0 5.14.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 LLVM 11.0.1)
v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.5
Audio:
Device-1: AMD Navi 10 HDMI Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
Device-2: AMD driver: snd_hda_intel
Device-3: AMD Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor
driver: snd_rn_pci_acp3x
Device-4: AMD Family 17h HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.14.0-0.bpo.2-amd64
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
driver: r8169
IF: eno1 state: down mac: e0:70:ea:c7:fb:bf
Device-2: Realtek driver: rtw89_pci
IF: wlo1 state: up mac: a8:93:4a:00:43:91
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: USB driver: btusb
Report: ID: hci0 state: up running bt-v: 3.0 address: A8:93:4A:00:43:92
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 192.8 GiB (40.4%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: SK Hynix model: PC711 HFS512GDE9X073N
size: 476.94 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 371.43 GiB used: 192.74 GiB (51.9%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 256 MiB used: 69.1 MiB (27.0%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 16 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) file: /swapfile
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 31.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
GPU: device: amdgpu temp: 31.0 C fan: 65526 device: amdgpu temp: 26.0 C
Info:
Processes: 296 Uptime: 1m Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.01
Keyboard backlight ok, screen ok, touchpad ok
Debian feels much faster than Manjaro
The debian one is fully on backports
Both are dual boot, it comes with W10, you immediately have the submissiveness process that doesn’t allow anything if you don’t give credentials. even if you refuse, they do install crapware, force upgrade to W11 and… don’t update it !
When you want to install firefox, it tells you it’s useless, offers you opera before ff and tons of crappy links, but not mozilla.org!
The most ridiculous thing is that even though you say no, it installs Mcafee everywhere (3 different things that take several minutes to uninstall and I’m sure there are still traces)
And once you’ve uninstalled, you have to activate W$ Defender by hand!
I may add a 2To SSD (seems it’s possible even if ports are supposed to carry only 1To)
I also added a 16Go swapfile:
echo vm.swappiness=5 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf
echo vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf
sudo sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile count=16384 bs=1MiB
sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile
echo '/swapfile none swap sw 0 0' | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab
Victus near my old (2010) Asus with 12go DDR3 
Thank you very much for the update!
It’s good to know that all the basics seem to work (mostly) out of the box.
Given dedicated AMD graphics on laptops are fairly hard to find, I’m surprised there’s not more interest in/reports about these models in the community. I’m keen to avoid any Nvidia induced headaches so it’s nice to know that the alternative looks promising.
I read that the two nvme slots differ, only the one on the right of the machine has 4 pcie lanes, the other only has 2; so will be slower.
In my case I rarely use windows so if it was me I’d probably leave windows alone on its own drive (and move this to the slower slot), and do a clean install of linux on the other drive.
Best of luck with your new hardware!
W$ vs Linux:
W$ preinstalled → 1 hour to have a workable, up to date environment now you start to install basic soft (office, mail client, real browser…) minimum 60Go for W11
Linux first install : 5 minutes to install, 5 more to update, comes with all basic software.
Computer start : W$11 is already 5 to ten times slower ! 