HP Zbook with Hybrid Quatro T500 - not going well with manjaro

[wolfyrion]

Hi ,

I got a Zbook with Quatro T500 but unfortunately every Arch distro I have tried to install including Manjaro is not working properly.
Most of the times it freezes because of the Graphic Card Issues.
I have tried and install different drivers but no luck. if you have any ideas of what to do let me know.

However I have tried and install MX Linux and everything is working fine smooth and fast.

How comes that MX Linux is working fine and not an arch based distro???

I wanted to install Manjaro but it seems that is impossible …

If you have any ideas or things to try please let me know

Best regards

[megavolt]

Hello @wolfyrion

Let us at least know what system you are running:

How to provide good information

Welcome to Manjaro! To allow all of us helpful people on this forum TO HELP YOU, we need some basic information about your system. This probably means you described the symptoms of your problem, but now we need some more information to know where the origin of your issue is exactly. Someone else probably linked you to this tutorial, so if you’re reading this in response to a question, please click the link above this text to bring you to the full and unabridged text of the tutorial…

Just the model name is not enough.

[wolfyrion]

https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/pdp/hp-zbook-firefly-15-g8-mobile-workstation-customizable-1g3t8av-mb

[wolfyrion]

Is using a hybrid graphic card and that is the problem

Discrete: NVIDIA® T500 (4G DDR6)

Integrated: Intel® Iris® Xᵉ Graphics

[megavolt]

@wolfyrion Unfortunately, you didn’t read the information at the link. There is a simple command, which provides common necessary information. In general one need the chipID for example. So I can’t help you here…

This is the command in short form:

inxi -Fazy

@wolfyrion

Most of the times it freezes because of the Graphic Card Issues.

@wolfyrion

Is using a hybrid graphic card and that is the problem

The problem is not the hybrid card, but must be the intel (i915) driver (just a guess). I would rather think that a function on the newest drivers does not play well with your intel gpu. A journal log or kernel messages could say more:

# 0 is the current boot and -1 the previous and so on
journalctl --boot 0 --no-pager

sudo dmesg

However… nobody can say anything without information.

Keep in mind, ArchLinux and therefore also Manjaro have bleeding edge software what means that older hardware could need some exceptions to work properly.

[wolfyrion]

Have in mind that I cannot post anything or use the pc since the PC is freezing…

[megavolt]

@wolfyrion ok I see… I did not expect that it is everytime the case.

However… on command line (if network is working), you can run these commands to upload it:

[HowTo] use public command-line pastebin services without installing anything!

Sometimes we might want to easily share terminal output. While this can be accomplished directly in the forums or manually through websites like pastebin, there also exist a number of open services that allow you to paste and share directly from the command line by using tools you already have installed. This is great for many situations, including troubleshooting from a non-graphical boot, or simply very large outputs. Here I will share a few examples and how to use them. Services and Exampl…

For example:

inxi -Fazy | curl -F 'file=@-' https://0x0.st

It will print a short link on the screen, which can be posted here.

EDIT: I cannot see which kernel version you are running. Since the intel driver is baked into it, try maybe the LTS version with version 5.4: https://download.manjaro.org/xfce/21.2pre1/manjaro-xfce-21.2pre1-minimal-211119-linux54.iso