HP Omen 16 Install issue...
Hey Everyone...
I'm trying to install Bazzite on My HP OMEN 16 Gaming Laptop ( RTX 4060 | i7-13700HX | 32GB RAM | 1TB SSD | 240Hz QHD ) But everytime I try to install, I have to figure out how to go into terminal in grub, and go into nomodset, and the one time I installed it, I was unable to use the trackpad... I think it's something to do with it being a proprietary Elan Touchpad. If anyone can help me with installing it easier, and getting the Touchpad working properly, I'd be more than grateful!
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Any help is appreciated. š I'm really struggling here
I managed to install it with no problems using the Live ISO
I tried that. But itās not progressing past a blank screen
How long did you have to wait?
Do you have the same kind of laptop, and did you have to do nomodeset?
And you chose the live iso for the āother laptopā and chose modern NVIDIA GPU as the options?
Nope
Yes
but make sure youre actually pressing the Nvidia setting, I made the wrong mistake of pressing RX 2xxx instead of RTX series + GTX 1650 up
I have an HP Omen MAX 16 with a 5080 and an Ultra 9 275HX
Installing gave me a plethora of issues (especially with the bootloader itself)
now that I'm in, I have no issues at all
Can you guide me kinda on how you did the install?
I used the Live ISO
and used Fedora Media Writer to get it into a 32gb usb
I booted from it with really no hassle whatsoever
and I just pressed install, configured my keyboard and selected the empty space on my dual boot setup, that was it
Bazzite did most of the rest
I havent had any issues apart from Wi-Fi disabling itself after sleep mode which I fixed (a bit rudimentarily I must admit)
My only real issue was the stupid bootloader from HP not recognising my USB when entering the boot options menu, I had to do a bit of a weird thing for it to recognise it but I got it working in the end
And yes, you have to wait some time at a blank screen
maybe not a crazy amount of time, but give it a couple minutes for it to do what it gotta do
Ok. Iāll try it again. Iāve been flashing my 16GB drive with balena-etcher. But now Iām try fedora media writer. Iāll update later
I had problems with Balena
FMW is the most reliable
Ok. After hitting try bazzite during booting, Iāve let this sit on a blank screen for over 10 minutes and nothing.
20 minutes now. š
Youre using the Live ISO right
the bottom one
Yes. That exact ISO
odd
try going to the advanced settings
when u boot
and press with simple graphics
Like in the grub menu?
The only option there is ātry bazziteā
And if you meant the bios. Iāve tried switching from NVIDIA Optimus, to discrete and vice versa. No luck
Huh
thats really unfortunate
try using the integrated graphics
I tried it. Nothing
Iām trying to install PopOSā¦ nothing still
Nothing installs on this godforsaken laptop except windows
try ubuntu
what error do you get
i imagine youve disabled secure boot and tpm to install everything just in case
Yes. Iāve tried those things. Iād figure Ubuntu would give the same issues. Because PopOS is based on it.
It either shows a blank screen, or itāll pull up the startup text of everything, and does t move forward after a point
Thats the weirdest thinf ever
Show pictures of your bios settingd
Here you go
Can anyone tell me if anything needs changing in the bios settings to get this working?
The bios looks fine
Im really not sure of the issue youre having
Damn dude. i hate this, i wish i could swap this laptop for a different one
My specific laptop just be sucking
Do I maybe need to downgrade my bios?
Bios is fine
HP overall is sucky on linux but maybe its salvagable
I see your laptop has a MUX switch and you can switch graphics. Put it on hybrid and let me know if that solves the blank screen issue.
You can put it back in discrete mode after you installed
Well. I got Linux mint able to boot, but the mouse doesnāt work
Back to the drawing board
if you can plug in an external mouse
try to extract the pci/usb id
need to identify your exact touchpad model
I know itās an elan touchpad
I donāt have an external mouse rn. Gonna buy one tomorrow
the blank screen issue is likely your backlight not working ive had the same issue
go hybrid mode to fix it
and then back to discrete once its installed