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Hardware | PCI/USB ID | Working?
--- | --- | ---
GPU (Intel) |  | Yes
GPU (Nvidia) |  | Yes
Wireless |  | Yes
Bluetooth |  | Yes
Audio |  | Yes
Touchpad |  | Yes
Webcam |  | Yes
Card reader |  | Yes
Ethernet |  | Yes

This page describes Dell G5 5590-9340 laptop.

## Installation

- Disable RAID and switch to AHCI in UEFI (System Configuration > SATA Operation > AHCI).
- Disable Secure Boot to be able to install the sytem (Secure Boot > Secure Boot Enable > Disable).

## Firmware

fwupd is not working with this laptop, but you can us a USB drive with a FAT32 filesystem and put the BIOS update executable on it. Reboot, start boot menu (using `F12`) and select BIOS Flash Update menu entry. [1]

## Graphics

### External monitor

If you are experiencing:

- Inability to use external monitor at all (does not detected or using invalid resolution).
- Rendering slowdown which can be described as "it renders one frame per second".

To fix it make your nVidia GPU as primary:

    /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf

    Section "OutputClass"
        Identifier "nvidia"
        MatchDriver "nvidia-drm"
        Driver "nvidia"
        Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration"
        Option "PrimaryGPU" "yes"
        ModulePath "/usr/lib/nvidia/xorg"
        ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    EndSection

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#### Screen tearing with nVidia

Enable full composition pipeline:

    /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/11-nvidia-tearing.conf

    Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device "Device0"
        Monitor "Monitor0"
        Option "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0 {ForceFullCompositionPipeline=On}"
        Option "AllowIndirectGLXProtocol" "off"
        Option "TripleBuffer" "on"
    EndSection

## Suspend-To-RAM

### Switch to deep

See Power management/Suspend and hibernate#Changing suspend method.

### Long recovery times

To fix long recovery times from suspend to RAM and `ucsi_ccg` dmesg errors (`failed to reset PPM!` and `PPM init failed (-110)`), blacklist the `i2c_nvidia_gpu` module.

Reference

## Keyboard

### Control keyboard backlight

See Keyboard backlight.

### RGB backlight

A Brazilian model with RGB backlight exists, but there are no evidences that RGB backlight is working in Linux.

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