Guides

• Fedora Installation Guide
• How to Change Brightness on a Linux Laptop
• Reddit | Fedora Nvidia Secure Boot

Installation

1. Resize Windows Partition
   Allocate 256GB (or any arbitrary size) for Fedora.

2. Download Fedora Live ISO
   Download Fedora 41 Live ISO from Fedora Workstation.

3. Burn the ISO to a USB Drive
   On Linux, use the following command:

   sudo cat fedora_xxx.iso > /dev/sda

4. Choose Test Fedora. Look and play around, or choose Install

5. During installation. Do custom partitions and mount / to your new partition. And mount /boot/EFI to the very first partition.

6. Go ahead and install.

Dual Boot

Use Bios Boot menu (press ESC at starting of PC) to choose Windows or Linux.

NVIDIA

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/latest/getting-started If you use an NVIDIA GPU and are experiencing significant visual issues while running Fedora from a live USB, it could be that your GPU is not fully compatible with the FOSS Nouveau driver. One possible workaround for this situation is to do the following 3 steps:

1. During the live USB boot process, hit e at the GRUB boot menu.
2. Find the line that begins with linux, and add nouveau.modeset=0 to the end of that line.
3. ress + x to resume the boot process. Follow the reddit guide above. Read especially on MOK (Machine Owner Kernel) signing.

sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm 
sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm 
sudo dnf upgrade --refresh 
sudo dnf install kernel-devel
sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda

asusctl & supergfxctl

sudo dnf copr enable lukenukem/asus-linux
sudo dnf update
sudo dnf install asusctl supergfxctl
sudo dnf update --refresh
sudo systemctl enable supergfxd.service
sudo dnf install asusctl-rog-gui

If asusctl or ROG Control Center only shows 'Static' as your Aura option:

sudo vim /usr/share/asusd/aura_support.ron

And add an entry for your system:

    (
        device_name: "FA401WV",
        product_id: "",
        layout_name: "fa401wv",
        basic_modes: [Static, Breathe, Pulse],
        basic_zones: [],
        advanced_type: None,
        power_zones: [Keyboard],
    ),

Update

sudo systemctl daemon-reload 
sudo systemctl restart asusd

Misc

Some of custom scripts to enable some features. Place these scripts in /usr/local/sbin:

• brightness_up.sh / brightness_down.sh to control screen brightness
• remap.sh to map f4 and f5 to asusctl for aura and profile change using evsieve
• ramap-keys.service to enable ramap as a service
• save_kb.sh / restore_kb.sh save or restore keyboard led state

Keyboard led on sleep

If your keyboard led stays on when at sleep edit /usr/bin/nvidia-sleep.sh:

case "$1" in
    suspend|hibernate)
        /usr/local/sbin/save_kb.sh

x x x x

    resume)
        /usr/local/sbin/restore_kb.sh

Brightness Up and Brightness down keys

If the keys (f6 and f7) are not functioning:

snd dnf install acpid

Run acpi_listen to verify the events triggered when f6 and f7 are pressed

acpi_listen

Edit or add the file /etc/acpi/events/brightness_up

event=video/brightnessup BRTUP 00000086 00000000
action=/etc/acpi/actions/brightness_up.sh

Edit or add the file ```/etc/acpi/events/brightness_down```
event=video/brightnessdown BRTDN 00000087 00000000
action=/etc/acpi/actions/brightness_down.sh

Copy the brightness scripts to /etc/acpi/actions/. Reboot or restart acpid

supergfxctl

Change gpu with these commands:

supergfxctl -m Integrated
supergfxctl -m Hybrid

Warning

Switching to Integrated might mess up the drivers and you'll boot into a black screen. Just change TTY (CTRL+ALT+F4) and switch back to Hybrid

You'll have to build supergfxctl yourself. Follow the asus-linux guide. And you'll have to patch the code before compiling at around line 324 of src/pci_device.rs:

-                                let hwmon_n_opt = match dev_path.read_dir() {
-                                    Ok(mut entries) => {
-                                        entries.next()
-                                    } Err(_e) => {
-                                        // debug!("Error reading hwmon directory: {}", e.to_string());
-                                        None // Continue with the assumption it's not a dGPU
-                                    }
-                                };
+                                let hwmon_n_opt = dev_path.read_dir().map_err(
+                                    |e| GfxError::from_io(e, dev_path)
+                                )?.next();

suppress some messages when running Integrated gpu

sudo systemctl mask nvidia-fallback.service

updating

Nvidia often doesn't get updated correctly. Force akmods

sudo akmods --force --kernel "$(uname -r)"

then

sudo dracut --force

Rollback

sudo dnf remove xorg-x11-drv-nvidia\* akmod-nvidia\*
sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia-580xx xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-580xx-cuda

suspend fails with external monitor

Laptop instant-wakes after suspend

sudo grubby --update-kernel=ALL --args='gpiolib_acpi.ignore_interrupt=AMDI0030:00@24 acpi_backlight=vendor'

Above show pin 24 will be ignored as it causes the instant wake - when monitor is attached.

To find the cause of instant wake:

sudo sh -c 'echo 1 > /sys/power/pm_debug_messages'
systemctl suspend
sudo dmesg

IRQ 7 causes the wake

sudo dmesg | grep GPIO

This will return GPIO 24 is active

Source

Rabit holes

• This laptop doesn't support s3 (deep sleep). Stop trying to force s3 - just to fix instant wake.