HP Pavilion 13-be0120nd

The HP Pavalion 13-be0120nd is a 13 inch lightweight laptop with aluminum casing. It sports a third generation six core AMD Ryzen 5 5600U CPU, capable of hyperthreading and with AMD Vega2 integrated graphics. Some models have a backlit keyboard, controllable with the FN-4 key.

Connectors

 * one laptop power supply connector
 * one USB-C connector, can also be used for power supply
 * two USB-A connectors
 * one HDMI connector
 * an audio headset jack

There is no ethernet or sd card reader available.

Audio
There are two audio cards:

If the the default card should be the on-board audio, not the HDMI card, then create as follows:

Alternatively put the same content in for a system wide configuration.

Wireless network
This laptop has Realtek 8852AE WiFi card, for which there are no drivers yet in Linux 5.10.61, the current stable version at the time of writing this document. To make it work follow the instructions in this git repository to build a rtw89 module.

Note that this needs to be repeated whenever the kernel is rebuilt.

Display
The display brightness can be set using, available on Project:GURU, on a hardware level. Alternatively, can be used to set the brightness software level.

Keyboard
The keyboard works out of the box. Function keys are not caught by the acpi deamon, but are silently passed to the desktop environment. Follow the instructions for your desktop environment if it needs tweaking, see the i3 configuration settings for an example. Note that if is used, it needs to have its suid set when called from an normal non-root user session.

Touchpad
The Elan:ARM-M4 touchpad is finicky. It works most of the time using without issues. It may be needed to reboot once or twice before it works.

External resources

 * Review on ultrabook.com
 * Review on The Verge