Dell G5 5590-9340

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

Reference

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.