Asus ROG Zephyrus M16 – How to use with Linux

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Hello everyone.

Some days ago I bought the Asus Rog Zephyrus 2022 with alder lake and RTX 3050.

All this I tested in Arch Linux, I do not know the rest of distros. Also the tools to control the dGPU and others only works with systemd (I'm a OpenRC user but OpenRC do not support sockets and because of that SystemD is a requeriment).

First, known issues that for now I do not know how to fix:

  • The notebook have 4 speakers: two for basses and two treble. I use pipewire but when use the keyboard to reduce the volume, only works with treble, if I want reduce the volume properly I must do trough pavucontrol.
    I think this issue is because the Realtek Audio Driver (if you are a Linux user, maybe you know this).

As I'm a pure Linux user I tested everything and here the steps:

  • As Asus made everthing for Windows, do not uninstall it, because Aura for now only is configurable in it.
  • If you want still use Windows, do not resize the partition trough linux, use Windows Disk Manager to reduce the partition size.
  • To install and use Linux, disable "Fast Boot" and "Secure Boot" in UEFI (when you poweron the notebook press ESC many times and in the boot menu select "Setup").
  • When you are installing Linux use cgdisk, not fdisk. Cgdisk is for GPT and fdisk is for MBR.

Your installation must have this configurations;

  • GRUB (/etc/default/grub).
    Add in CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT:

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nvidia-drm.modeset=0 usbhid.mousepoll=1 i915.enable_psr=0 ibt=off .....
  • Add the asus-linux repo (/etc/pacman.conf);

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[g14] SigLevel = DatabaseNever Optional TrustAll Server = https://arch.asus-linux.org
  • Install and enable tools;

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pacman -Syuq asusctl && systemctl enable --now power-profiles-daemon.service && pacman -S supergfxctl && systemctl enable --now supergfxd
  • Nvidia drivers and Asus ROG Linux kernel

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pacman -Sy linux-g14 linux-g14-headers nvidi-dkms && grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
  • Tool to send a program to use the Nvidia GPU

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pacman -Sy nvidia-prime

If you want execute Steam (for example) into Nvidia do;

prime-run steam
  • If you want install Steam and use in Nvidia dGPU do (also uninstall lib32-amdvlk because will crash with nvidia drivers);

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pacman -S ulkan-intel vulkan-mesa-layers lib32-nvidia-utils lib32-vk3d lib32-vulkan-intel lib32-vulkan-mesa-layers steam && pacman -R lib32-amdvlk

Then reboot your system and just after this install your desktop environment.

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