Babe, the laptop assassin

[j2mcgreg]

The ProBook is not dead. Use a hair dryer on warm setting. It will resurrect when its dried off.

I've been in this business a long time. It's definitely dead.

[j2mcgreg]

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This is Babe. Target is ProBook identified. Permission to fire.

No, Use Mandarin Orange sparkling water. directly fire on the keyboard, Do it.

Roger that.

Now that put a smile on my face!!!

[AVLinux]

Hi j2mcgreg!

Sorry for your tech loss, that's a bummer!

Well I'm admittedly not a cat lover but to be fair I have a pretty badly wounded Samsung laptop here from my daughters Goldendoodle bounding through the studio like it was a meadow full of daisies... Never have laptops on tripod stands when a young dog is around was the takeaway.. Just wanted to admit the other furry children can be just as bad sometimes..

Enjoy the new ride!

[j2mcgreg]

Everything working OK on the new laptop? I see you don't run AHS on it...

When I tested this model at the store with a live session, the sound card was working, but it's not working now after a full install. As I write this, I am downloading the AHS version and then I'll install it again. c'est la vie.

[Adrian]

There's no reason for the card to work on Live and not work on installed... not sure what is going on. Maybe @dolphin_oracle has an idea about that

[j2mcgreg]

There's no reason for the card to work on Live and not work on installed... not sure what is going on. Maybe @dolphin_oracle has an idea about that

Well, I can hazard a guess. The USB drive I had with me was for MX 21.1

[dolphin_oracle]

kernel drivers could be different I suppose. or maybe the firmware-sof package is missing from whatever iso you used to install. I think it should be on all releases though.

[j2mcgreg]

kernel drivers could be different I suppose. or maybe the firmware-sof package is missing from whatever iso you used to install. I think it should be on all releases though.

I'm leaning more to a slightly bad download on my part, or a bad usb drive as the cause. However it's moot because I reinstalled using the AHS version and sound is now working. Wifi was not working, but all that was necessary to sort it out was to use Network Assistant to block a conflicting driver.

[j2mcgreg]

Here's the amended QSI:

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System:    Kernel: 6.0.0-6mx-amd64 [6.0.12-1~mx21+1] x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.0.0-6mx-amd64 
           root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.18.1 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm 4.18.0 vt: 7 
           dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: MX-21.3_ahs_x64 Wildflower January 15  2023 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Laptop 15-ef2xxx v: N/A serial: <filter> Chassis: 
           type: 10 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: HP model: 887A v: 59.17 serial: <filter> UEFI: AMI v: F.25 date: 07/05/2022 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 40.6 Wh (99.8%) condition: 40.7/40.7 Wh (100.0%) volts: 12.9 
           min: 11.3 model: HP Primary type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Not charging 
CPU:       Info: Quad Core model: AMD Ryzen 3 5300U with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
           arch: Zen 2 family: 17 (23) model-id: 68 (104) stepping: 1 microcode: 8608103 cache: 
           L2: 2 MiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 41522 
           Speed: 2342 MHz min/max: 400/3900 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1646 2: 1697 
           3: 2627 4: 2600 5: 1252 6: 1294 7: 1999 8: 400 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected 
           Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
           Type: mds status: Not affected 
           Type: meltdown status: Not affected 
           Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected 
           Type: retbleed mitigation: untrained return thunk; SMT enabled with STIBP protection 
           Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: always-on, RSB 
           filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected 
           Type: srbds status: Not affected 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: AMD Lucienne vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.0 
           chip-ID: 1002:164c class-ID: 0300 
           Device-2: Luxvisions Innotech Limited HP TrueVision HD Camera type: USB 
           driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-3:2 chip-ID: 30c9:0013 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter> 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.14 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.18.0 driver: 
           loaded: amdgpu,ati unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1 
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2") 
           s-diag: 582mm (22.9") 
           Monitor-1: eDP res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142 size: 344x194mm (13.5x7.6") 
           diag: 395mm (15.5") 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD RENOIR (LLVM 14.0.5 DRM 3.48 6.0.0-6mx-amd64) v: 4.6 Mesa 22.0.5 
           direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: AMD Renoir Radeon High Definition Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
           driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1637 class-ID: 0403 
           Device-2: AMD ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor 
           vendor: Hewlett-Packard Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Processor 
           driver: snd_rn_pci_acp3x v: kernel alternate: snd_pci_acp3x,snd_pci_acp5x,snd_pci_acp6x 
           bus-ID: 03:00.5 chip-ID: 1022:15e2 class-ID: 0480 
           Device-3: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel 
           v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k6.0.0-6mx-amd64 running: yes 
           Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8822CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter 
           vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rtw_8822ce v: N/A modules: rtw88_8822ce,wl port: f000 
           bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:c822 class-ID: 0280 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Bluetooth: Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-4:3 
           chip-ID: 0bda:b00c class-ID: e001 serial: <filter> 
           Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 3.0 lmp-v: 5.1 
           sub-v: abd3 hci-v: 5.1 rev: ffb8 
           Info: acl-mtu: 1021:6 sco-mtu: 255:12 link-policy: rswitch hold sniff park 
           link-mode: slave accept service-classes: rendering, capturing, object transfer, audio 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 23.67 GiB (5.0%) 
           SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
           ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital 
           model: PC SN530 SDBPNPZ-512G-1006 size: 476.94 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B 
           logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: HPS2 
           temp: 27.9 C scheme: GPT 
Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 468.68 GiB size: 460.25 GiB (98.20%) used: 23.66 GiB (5.1%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2 
           ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 256 MiB size: 252 MiB (98.46%) used: 282 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat 
           dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 
Swap:      Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
           ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8 GiB used: 512 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 
           dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 39.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 44.0 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 fan-2: 0 
Repos:     Packages: note: see --pkg apt: 1968 lib: 991 flatpak: 0 
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
           2: deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/mx/repo/ bullseye ahs
Info:      Processes: 270 Uptime: 1h 21m wakeups: 2067 Memory: 7.1 GiB used: 1.95 GiB (27.5%) 
           Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 default: 5 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: N/A 
           alt: 10 Client: shell wrapper v: 5.1.4-release inxi: 3.3.06 
Boot Mode: UEFI

[j2mcgreg]

This laptop did not function well with the latest version of MX, the latest AHS version or after upgrading to the 6.1 kernel. So I've just now installed MX 21.2.1 which was the version that I tested on the laptop prior to purchase, So far everything works as it should. Here's the QSI for this install:

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System:    Kernel: 5.10.0-18-amd64 [5.10.140-1] x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-18-amd64 
           root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm 4.16.1 vt: 7 
           dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: MX-21.2.1_x64 Wildflower September 18  2022 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Laptop 15-ef2xxx v: N/A serial: <filter> Chassis: 
           type: 10 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: HP model: 887A v: 59.17 serial: <filter> UEFI: AMI v: F.25 date: 07/05/2022 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 40.6 Wh (99.8%) condition: 40.7/40.7 Wh (100.0%) volts: 12.8 
           min: 11.3 model: HP Primary type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Unknown 
CPU:       Info: Quad Core model: AMD Ryzen 3 5300U with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
           arch: Zen 2 family: 17 (23) model-id: 68 (104) stepping: 1 microcode: 8608103 cache: 
           L2: 2 MiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 41519 
           Speed: 1500 MHz min/max: 1400/3900 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1500 
           2: 1309 3: 1421 4: 1232 5: 1401 6: 1598 7: 1444 8: 1349 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected 
           Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
           Type: mds status: Not affected 
           Type: meltdown status: Not affected 
           Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected 
           Type: retbleed mitigation: untrained return thunk; SMT enabled with STIBP protection 
           Type: spec_store_bypass 
           mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: always-on, RSB 
           filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected 
           Type: srbds status: Not affected 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: AMD Lucienne vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.0 
           chip-ID: 1002:164c class-ID: 0300 
           Device-2: Luxvisions Innotech Limited HP TrueVision HD Camera type: USB 
           driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-3:3 chip-ID: 30c9:0013 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter> 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.16.1 driver: 
           loaded: amdgpu,ati unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1 
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2") 
           s-diag: 582mm (22.9") 
           Monitor-1: eDP res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142 size: 344x194mm (13.5x7.6") 
           diag: 395mm (15.5") 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD RENOIR (DRM 3.40.0 5.10.0-18-amd64 LLVM 11.0.1) 
           v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: AMD Renoir Radeon High Definition Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
           driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1637 class-ID: 0403 
           Device-2: AMD ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor 
           vendor: Hewlett-Packard Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Processor 
           driver: snd_rn_pci_acp3x v: kernel alternate: snd_pci_acp3x bus-ID: 03:00.5 
           chip-ID: 1022:15e2 class-ID: 0480 
           Device-3: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel 
           v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.0-18-amd64 running: yes 
           Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8822CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter 
           vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rtw_8822ce v: N/A modules: rtw88_8822ce,wl port: f000 
           bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:c822 class-ID: 0280 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Bluetooth: Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-4:4 
           chip-ID: 0bda:b00c class-ID: e001 serial: <filter> 
           Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 3.0 lmp-v: 5.1 
           sub-v: a0cb hci-v: 5.1 rev: 9a8 
           Info: acl-mtu: 1021:6 sco-mtu: 255:12 link-policy: rswitch hold sniff park 
           link-mode: slave accept service-classes: rendering, capturing, object transfer, audio 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 6.42 GiB (1.3%) 
           SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
           ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital 
           model: PC SN530 SDBPNPZ-512G-1006 size: 476.94 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B 
           logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: HPS2 
           temp: 30.9 C scheme: GPT 
Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 468.68 GiB size: 460.25 GiB (98.20%) used: 6.42 GiB (1.4%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2 
           ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 256 MiB size: 252 MiB (98.46%) used: 274 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat 
           dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 
Swap:      Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
           ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 
           dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 51.6 C mobo: 47.0 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 47.0 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:     Packages: note: see --pkg apt: 1954 lib: 980 flatpak: 0 
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
Info:      Processes: 271 Uptime: 13m wakeups: 152 Memory: 7.17 GiB used: 1.65 GiB (23.0%) 
           Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 default: 5 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: N/A 
           alt: 10 Client: shell wrapper v: 5.1.4-release inxi: 3.3.06 
Boot Mode: UEFI

I've now got 232 updates to run, so we will see if its still running properly after they finish. I will, however, have this kernel to roll back to if things go awry.