HP Pavilion 13-be0120nd

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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.

Hardware

lspci

root #lspci -nnk

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Root Complex [1022:1630]
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Renoir Root Complex [103c:8919]
00:00.2 IOMMU [0806]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir IOMMU [1022:1631]
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Renoir IOMMU [103c:8919]
00:01.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir PCIe Dummy Host Bridge [1022:1632]
00:02.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir PCIe Dummy Host Bridge [1022:1632]
00:02.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir PCIe GPP Bridge [1022:1634]
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:02.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir PCIe GPP Bridge [1022:1634]
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:08.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir PCIe Dummy Host Bridge [1022:1632]
00:08.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Internal PCIe GPP Bridge to Bus [1022:1635]
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:14.0 SMBus [0c05]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SMBus Controller [1022:790b] (rev 51)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company FCH SMBus Controller [103c:8919]
        Kernel driver in use: piix4_smbus
        Kernel modules: sp5100_tco
00:14.3 ISA bridge [0601]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH LPC Bridge [1022:790e] (rev 51)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company FCH LPC Bridge [103c:8919]
00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device [1022:166a]
00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device [1022:166b]
00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device [1022:166c]
00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device [1022:166d]
00:18.4 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device [1022:166e]
00:18.5 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device [1022:166f]
00:18.6 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device [1022:1670]
00:18.7 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device [1022:1671]
01:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:a85a]
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:88e2]
        Kernel driver in use: rtw89_pci
02:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller [0108]: Micron Technology Inc Device [1344:5404] (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Micron Technology Inc Device [1344:1100]
        Kernel driver in use: nvme
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Device [1002:1638] (rev c2)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:8919]
        Kernel driver in use: amdgpu
        Kernel modules: amdgpu
03:00.1 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Device [1002:1637]
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:8919]
        Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
        Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel
03:00.2 Encryption controller [1080]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h (Models 10h-1fh) Platform Security Processor [1022:15df]
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Family 17h (Models 10h-1fh) Platform Security Processor [103c:8919]
        Kernel driver in use: ccp
03:00.3 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir USB 3.1 [1022:1639]
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Renoir USB 3.1 [103c:8919]
        Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
03:00.4 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir USB 3.1 [1022:1639]
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Renoir USB 3.1 [103c:8919]
        Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
03:00.5 Multimedia controller [0480]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor [1022:15e2] (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor [103c:8919]
        Kernel modules: snd_pci_acp3x
03:00.6 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h (Models 10h-1fh) HD Audio Controller [1022:15e3]
        DeviceName: HD Audio Controller
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Family 17h (Models 10h-1fh) HD Audio Controller [103c:8919]
        Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
        Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel
03:00.7 Signal processing controller [1180]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raven/Raven2/Renoir Sensor Fusion Hub [1022:15e4]
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Raven/Raven2/Renoir Sensor Fusion Hub [103c:891

lsusb

user $lsusb

Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0bda:385a Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Bluetooth Radio
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0bda:8153 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8153 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 2109:0210 VIA Labs, Inc. Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 04f3:0c00 Elan Microelectronics Corp. ELAN:ARM-M4
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04f2:b6bb Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd HP Wide Vision HD Camera
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 2109:0100 VIA Labs, Inc. USB 2.0 BILLBOARD
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 2109:2210 VIA Labs, Inc. Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

Devices

Audio

There are two audio cards:

user $aplay -l

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Generic_1 [HD-Audio Generic], device 0: ALC287 Analog [ALC287 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

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

FILE ~/.asoundrc

defaults.pcm.!card Generic_1
defaults.pcm.!device 0
defaults.ctl.!card Generic_1

Alternatively put the same content in /etc/asound.conf 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.

Bluetooth

Bluetooth should be provided using the same Realtek 8852AE chip. There is an issue for this in the rtw89 github repository. It is not fixed, it is not working.

Display

The display brightness can be set using app-misc/brightnessctl, available on Project:GURU, on a hardware level. Alternatively, x11-apps/xrandr 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 app-misc/brightnessctl 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 sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel without issues. It may be needed to reboot once or twice before it works.