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Hardware PCI/USB ID Working?
Touchpad Yes
Keyboard 0d62:c2b0 Yes
GPU (Integrated) 1002:164e Yes
GPU (Dedicated) 1002:7480 Yes
Webcam 0c45:6739 Yes
Ethernet 10ec:8125 Yes
Bluetooth 0489:e0e3 Yes
SD-card reader 10ec:525a Yes
Audio 1022:15e3 Yes
Wireless 17cb:1103 Yes
TPM 1022:1649 Untested

Installation

Turn off Secure Boot.

Graphics

Everything runs well with wayland and KDE5. There are occasional graphics crashes when you have both GPUs on. You can either

  • Live with it
  • Turn off the hybrid GPU and only activate one in the BIOS
  • Try the kernel option amdgpu.ppfeaturemask=0xfffd3fff. Things seem to be more stable for me since I did that.

USB

The USB ports on the back of the system didn't work. When plugging in a device, it got power from the port but no kernel message that something got plugged in. This can be fixed by disabling usb autosuspend. Edit your /etc/default/grub, find GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT and add usbcore.autosuspend=-1

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="loglevel=3 usbcore.autosuspend=-1"

See also

Hardware probe