Just to confirm that I have had no issue with multiple HP docks at work, I have had no success with 65w PD but anything 100W and over has been no trouble.
To add to the links, this low cost charger works fine
In terms of performance, the main difference between the pro and non-pro versions is PBO, which is not available for the pro version. I guess this is why the pro version is slower.
I don’t think this is correct. Mine has PBO in BIOS and it’s the pro version.
That’s interesting. My HP Zbook Ultra G1a with AI Max 395 pro doesn’t have the PBO option in Bios.
Also, what I said is based on information from AMD’s official website.
Non-pro: AMD Ryzen™ Al Max+ 395
Pro: AMD Ryzen™ AI Max+ PRO 395
In the general specifications tab, it says the pro version doesn’t support PBO and CO.
You are right and i am wrong 
i saw core performance boost in bios and confused it with pbo.
I have the same 64G 395 Pro model, but I am on Ubuntu though. Do you happen to know why the memory only shows close to 50GB instead of 64GB?
You probably have some memory reserved for the GPU. You can lower the reserved memory in the BIOS down to 512MB. Linux treats the memory as unified [1], so there shouldn’t be any downside.
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Hi, does anyone else experience a problem with 100% screen brightness after waking up from suspend?
In my case, this regression happens between 6.17-rc7 and 6.17 release.
I think I have the same issue. On Gentoo it got introduced between 6.16.9_p1 and 6.16.10. On Arch I haven’t kept track of kernel versions but it’s good in 6.17-rc4 and broken in 6.17.1 (assuming it is the same issue in both).
I can’t tell about suspend because it’s broken for me but when turning the laptop on I start with 100% brightness and every time I turn the screen off it reverts to 100% brightness when turning on.
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Hi folks! I found the “ROG Flow z13 Using Linux!” YouTube video when I was first trying out the ASUS ROG Flow Z13 a few months ago. I purchased it for the hardware and form factor, of course, and now I’m ready to get the heck out of Windows and back my fav ecosystem… Linux.
So poking around the forums here, I see a few threads:
- This one linked from Wendell’s video
- One started earlier → Flow Z13 Asus Setup on Linux (May 2025) [WIP]
- And most recently → Asus Z13 flow Strix Halo Arch Linux Set-up (Fall 2025
Can anyone with experience getting Linux going on the Z13 suggest what is the most current/complete info? I realize things continue to evolve so just wanted to chime in, in case someone can make a recommendation. The Fall 2025 guide definitely looks interesting to me, but I’d love to know if anyone else has had success using that setup from @shahzebqazi (with Omarchy).
Thanks so much, major appreciation for all the great info here!
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Edit for anyone who might stumble across this later, since I didn’t mention it explicitly at first… this is a response to janimater regarding install on ROG Flow Z13 2025. My comments here are not for the HP G1A. I don’t want to inadvertently mislead anyone. I’ll try to get a new wiki page created and move this all over to that in a couple of days. Thanks G1A owners for your patience and sorry if this gets in the way a little bit.
I just installed it on mine yesterday. I’ve been a casual linux user so take what I say with a grain of salt - I’m no expert. It took me a few do-overs to get it up and running. This guide mostly worked. There are a few gaps and there are a couple of things out of order. This guide (read through the comments too… or search when you get errors or failures a couple of comments have good info on getting around them), along with this video from 5 years ago (which is surprisingly still applicable), and of course the Arch installation documentation Wendell mentioned.
Okay out of order stuff… When you get to “You should be able to genfstab…” don’t do it. You can’t, it won’t work. At that point, there is no /etc/ so it fails. You have to get past the rest of the arch install first.
Also:
Snapper install didn’t work for me. But I figure I can set that up later so I’m not worried about it yet.
Don’t worry about doing fprint… no fingerprint reader.
I had some trouble doing the grub install and the sbctl signing. I think I had to change the …/boot/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI to something completely different. You should see what you need to change when you run the verify, I think.
I had some trouble with wifi… sometimes it saw my 5G ssid, sometimes it only saw my 2.4G. I’d recommend if you have something faster than the 2.4GHz you just keep trying to get-network until you see the one you need. Install goes a LOT faster that way (surprisingly so).
I had trouble with visudo… it worked on one attempt to install Arch but not on subsequent attempts until later in the process. Watch when they do it in the other YT video… that worked for me.
You can install and use nano if you’re not comfortable with vi or vim.
Good luck, hope it’s easier for you than it was for me.
Edit. I tried the Omarchy install you mentioned and it didn’t work at all for me. 404 error and I didn’t go looking for an updated path or file. I didn’t find the May 2025 WIP guide useful.
Additional info (which I know belongs on another wiki page somewhere. I’ll prob create one in a couple of days and move this all over to that so this doesn’t get jumbled where it doesn’t belong. Unless Wendell or janimater beats me to the punch.):
- For games: Install aura, Heroic Game Launcher, install/enable multilib
- For tablet functionality: maliit-keyboard (virtual keyboard), iio-sensor-proxy (screen rotation)
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Thanks a lot for sharing your experience so far, @Scraz! I’ll chime in once I’ve gone through an initial attempt. The first thing I aim to do is clone the drive in it’s current state (with Windows 11), so I can do a full clean install of Linux, but get the original OS back if I need to.
Cheers
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thanks y’all, I’m working on an updated version too, and this is. wiki so fixable
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thanks for this wonderful guide!
is anyone able to get rpm readings for the fans? or PWM control?
hp_wmi driver is automatically loaded, but i get no readings:
sensors hp-isa-0000
hp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
pwm1: N/A
looking at kernel log (journalctl -k):
hp_wmi: query 0x4 returned error 0x5
which roughly translates to HPWMI_HARDWARE_QUERY returned HPWMI_RET_INVALID_PARAMETERS (by looking at the source here: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/tree/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-wmi.c?h=v6.17.4)
i guess the driver doesn’t support (yet) this laptop, but i would be great if we could somehow control fan speed (i find them too aggressive and they spikes continuosly for no reason).
I have just got one of these laptops for work and here are my notes :
OS Target : Arch
BIOS Version : 01.03.11
Pretty much everything worked out of the box bar :
Webcam
Needed the isp4 patches on top of 6.17 along with the fw adding to the initramfs.
It looks like these patches are still missing from 6.18-rc2 
so maybe we will see them land in 6.19
Mute LED
Just doesn’t toggle, is always on (id assume we do need a kernel patch for this, or some config to bind the LED to the mic mute state)
Charging
On the provided USB-C power brick everything is fine, however of the other multi port 140W USBC PD chargers I have just seem to ramp up to 100watts then drop to below 25watts and start again
The chargers i have tried are :
- ISDT Power 200X (has an LCD readout of current charging rates)
- Rocoren 140W GaN USB Charger PD3.1
Both experience the same issues, unsure what the root cause should be (i have also tested multiple USBC PD EPR / 240watt cables with no luck)
Other than those 3 points it seems to be working well
I got my HP g1a 2 days ago. I found it utterly painless to install arch on it (Been an arch user for almost a decade).
Findings:
- Camera still not working as of latest stuff today, no biggie
- HP G6 dock seems to power it fine, Using 2 external monitors: 5120x2160@120, and 1440x2560@60, dock seems to provide full power.
- Have not tried the fingerprint reader, or AI
- The wifi had no issues connecting when I tried it, but I have mostly only used it docked so far.
I have tried the following games, all work amazing using wine/proton
- Starfield
- Skyrim
- UT2004
- UT99
Only issue so far is that my thunderbolt dock and the laptop briefly stop talking at random. I will just be using it (or in some cases using a different system nearby) and the screens will blank and the laptop screen flips back on, then a moment later it re-establishes the thunderbolt connection and my screens turn back on. I cannot explain this, dmesg shows it thinks the dock was disconnected and reconnected.
I am up to date on all firmware updates for all devices, and up to date on arch.
Environment stuff that may interest people:
- Latest Arch
- AwesomeWM (which uses X11, not wayland)
- Dock/Monitor watching and screen reconfiguring done via a perl script I wrote to watch and manage such things.
For the mute LED, did you try this The Ultimate Arch + Secureboot guide for Ryzen AI Max (ft. HP G1A 128gb 8060S monster laptop) - #119 by Kiara?
On a different note, I finally got suspending working after trying the steps mentioned here Re: ZBook Ultra G1a Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 : high APU PPT and... - HP Support Community - 9491525
Unrelated subject : I fixed the broken sleep issue. Turns out, you cannot disable : Secure Boot, RAM encryption, Pluton security processor : it will break sleep. And (important) you have to disable iommu (amd_iommu=off in boot parameters).
This allows sleep to work with a vanilla 6.16.7 kernel and doesn’t impede power management/efficiency.
OS: CachyOS 6.17.4
Bios: 01.03.11
Both mute buttons and LEDs work without issue.
For charging, I’ve been using the Sabrent 252w charger that Jeff Geerling featured a while back with some Ugreen cables (240w, 40gbps, 1m/3ft). It only does 100w, so under windows it won’t run at max performance and there’s a HP nag notification. But, I have no problem charging and running the laptop in my normal usage with windows or CachyOS.
@BuzzBumbleBee I think the full power draw, followed by a ramp up from lower is part of the normal power negotiation (It’s what I see on my charger). It should just happen once at connection, if it’s recurring after there’s an issue causing/forcing renegotiation, it could be either the cable or charger.
Just to add, I wasn’t seeing any issue with sleep with just Secure Boot disabled. Though with more recent 6.17 kernels I’ve noticed increased power draw when sleeping.