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Hardware | PCI/USB ID | Working?
--- | --- | ---
GPU | 1002:731f | Yes
Wireless | 8086:2723 | Yes
Bluetooth | 8087:0029 | Yes
Audio | 1022:15e3 | Yes
Touchpad | 04F3:30CB | Yes
Webcam | 0c45:671f | Yes
Ethernet | 10ec:8168 | Yes

This page describes Dell G5 SE 5505 laptop.

## Installation

Disable Secure Boot in your BIOS (press the `F2` key on boot). Install Arch Linux as usual using UEFI installation method. You may have to use the `amdgpu.runpm=0` kernel parameters if you are experiencing GPU crashes.

## Firmware

Use Windows to update UEFI and GPU firmware. UEFI can be updated through the UEFI though.

## Graphics

Works out of the box, install mesa if you want to use 3D applications. If you want to use the dedicated GPU, use `DRI_PRIME=1 command`, where `command` is the command you want to launch with your dGPU (see PRIME#For open source drivers - PRIME). Wayland session works out of the box on gnome with pipewire. AMD's Smart Access Memory (or Resizable BAR) should work since kernel ≥ 5.11.4.

### Screen tearing

Works out of the box for Wayland sessions.

For X11: install `xf86-video-amdgpu`.

Note: Arch supplies default configuration files in `/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/`, and no extra configuration is necessary for most setups.

If no `*0-amdgpu.conf` is present in `/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/` folder, copy the default `amdgpu.conf` file from `/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/`.

Example:

    # cp /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-amdgpu.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/

Edit the .conf file as follows:

    /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-amdgpu.conf

    Section "OutputClass"
            Identifier "AMDgpu"
            MatchDriver "amdgpu"
            Driver "amdgpu"
            Option "TearFree" "true"
    EndSection

### Video Encoding / Decoding

    # vainfo

    vainfo: VA-API version: 1.14 (libva 2.12.0)
    vainfo: Driver version: Mesa Gallium driver 22.0.5 for AMD RENOIR (LLVM 13.0.1, DRM 3.48, 6.0.9-060009-generic)
    vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
         VAProfileMPEG2Simple            :	VAEntrypointVLD
         VAProfileMPEG2Main              :	VAEntrypointVLD
         VAProfileVC1Simple              :	VAEntrypointVLD
         VAProfileVC1Main                :	VAEntrypointVLD
         VAProfileVC1Advanced            :	VAEntrypointVLD
         VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline:	VAEntrypointVLD
         VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline:	VAEntrypointEncSlice
         VAProfileH264Main               :	VAEntrypointVLD
         VAProfileH264Main               :	VAEntrypointEncSlice
         VAProfileH264High               :	VAEntrypointVLD
         VAProfileH264High               :	VAEntrypointEncSlice
         VAProfileHEVCMain               :	VAEntrypointVLD
         VAProfileHEVCMain               :	VAEntrypointEncSlice
         VAProfileHEVCMain10             :	VAEntrypointVLD
         VAProfileHEVCMain10             :	VAEntrypointEncSlice
         VAProfileJPEGBaseline           :	VAEntrypointVLD
         VAProfileVP9Profile0            :	VAEntrypointVLD
         VAProfileVP9Profile2            :	VAEntrypointVLD
         VAProfileNone                   :	VAEntrypointVideoProc

## Power management

### CPU

acpi-cpufreq is working down to 1.40 GHz. amd_pstate fails to load with BIOS Version 1.14.0 (11/30/2022)

    kernel: amd_pstate: the _CPC object is not present in SBIOS or ACPI disabled

### GPU

Battery life below two hours when `amdgpu.runpm=0` is used and the dedicated GPU never turns off.

Since Kernel Version 6.0.x and BIOS Version: 1.13.0 amdgpu power management sees fewer GPU crashes.

Show power management profiles:

    # cat /sys/class/drm/card?/device/pp_power_profile_mode

Enable power saving mode (as root):

    # echo manual > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_dpm_force_performance_level
    # echo "2" > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/pp_power_profile_mode

See amdgpu kernel documentation

### Suspension and hibernation

Does not work. You can try to enabling its support via BIOS injection, see [1]

## Temperature monitoring, Fan control

### Monitoring

By default the kernel loads the `k10temp` module to check cpu thermals.

    $ sensors

     k10temp-pci-00c3
     Adapter: PCI adapter
     Tctl:         +38.0°C
     Tdie:         +38.0°C

To monitor GPU temp, and see fan speeds you will have to force load the dell-smm-hwmon Kernel module (see [2] for documentation), which is not loaded by default on this laptop.

    # modprobe dell-smm-hwmon restricted=0 ignore_dmi=1

To make this setting persist upon reboot edit your `/etc/modules-load.d/dell-smm-hwmon.conf` file

    dell-smm-hwmon

and your `/etc/modprobe.d/dell-smm-hwmon.conf` file

    # This file must be at /etc/modprobe.d/
    options dell-smm-hwmon restricted=0 ignore_dmi=1

You should now see a dell result in the result of `sensors`.

    dell_smm-virtual-0
    Adapter: Virtual device
    Processor Fan:    0 RPM
    Video Fan:        0 RPM
    Other:          +37.0°C
    CPU:            +40.0°C
    Ambient:        +38.0°C
    GPU:            +38.0°C
    Other:          +37.0°C

### Scripts to control fans

The easy way is to use this python script which can push the fans according to the cpu and gpu temperatures.

## Thermal management, overclocking

### CPU

The packages ryzenadj-gitAUR and ryzen-controller-binAUR (gui for ryzenadj) should work out of the box to control maximum temperature and TDP of your CPU. For instance, the following command restrict your CPU TDP to 40 Watts and maximum temperature to 70°C (perfectly safe on this laptop)

    # ryzenadj -a 40000 -b 40000 -c 40000 -f 70

Warning: Do not touch anything that you do not understand, a too high TDP or temperature can permanently damage your CPU/iGPU !

see [3] and [4] for detailed instructions on how to use theses tools.

Undervolting and overclocking are not available on this laptop, zenstates-gitAUR does not seem to have any effect on zen2 processors see [5] .

Also see Improving performance for more performance tricks.

### GPU

You can try to use corectrl. Also see AMDGPU#Overclocking.

## Webcam

    # v4l2-ctl --list-formats-ext
    ioctl: VIDIOC_ENUM_FMT
    	Type: Video Capture

    	[0]: 'MJPG' (Motion-JPEG, compressed)
    		Size: Discrete 1280x720
    			Interval: Discrete 0.033s (30.000 fps)
    		Size: Discrete 960x540
    			Interval: Discrete 0.033s (30.000 fps)
    		Size: Discrete 848x480
    			Interval: Discrete 0.033s (30.000 fps)
    		Size: Discrete 640x480
    			Interval: Discrete 0.033s (30.000 fps)
    		Size: Discrete 640x360
    			Interval: Discrete 0.033s (30.000 fps)
    	[1]: 'YUYV' (YUYV 4:2:2)
    		Size: Discrete 1280x720
    			Interval: Discrete 0.100s (10.000 fps)
    		Size: Discrete 640x480
    			Interval: Discrete 0.033s (30.000 fps)
    		Size: Discrete 640x360
    			Interval: Discrete 0.033s (30.000 fps)
    		Size: Discrete 424x240
    			Interval: Discrete 0.033s (30.000 fps)
    		Size: Discrete 320x240
    			Interval: Discrete 0.033s (30.000 fps)
    		Size: Discrete 320x180
    			Interval: Discrete 0.033s (30.000 fps)
    		Size: Discrete 160x120
    			Interval: Discrete 0.033s (30.000 fps)

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