Dell G5 SE 5505
| 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.
/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
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)