HP victus linux support?

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 ! :stuck_out_tongue:

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!
:crazy_face:

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 :slight_smile:

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