ASUS ROG Zephyrus G15 GA502 (model GA502IV-WS74 ), 24 GB.
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ASUS ROG GA502 Zephyrus R7 RTX 2060 16GB/512GB Gaming Laptop;
15.6" 144Hz FHD Display, AMD Ryzen 7 4800HS, 16GB DDR4,
512GB PCIe NVMe SSD,
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q,
Win 10 Home, GA502IV-WS74
I could not use LM Cinnamon 20.1 stable edition because
its kernel does not support AMD Renoir graphics, which require the 5.8 kernel .
Linux Mint Cinnamon Edge 20.1 ( kernel 5.8 ) installed as dual boot along side WIn10 Home.
Users were warned to avoid the Edge edition since it is experimental and thus unstable.
Observations of problems:
1) At random and occasionally, I get a black screen.
I have to reboot! Everything froze!
This seems to happened more when I used Firefox browser.
But then again, I use Firefox most of the time! Bad inference! Lol!
It also did crashed with Chrome and Firefox browsers running at same time.
Again, this happens randomly.
Conversely, I do not have any blue screen crash or freeze when using Win10, including using Firefox.
2) The functions shared with F# keys like "Air Plane mode" shared with F12, and
"Z^z^z" shared with F11, brightness low and high shared with FF7 and F8 respectively do not work.
i was using Ctrl + F# keys combo, maybe I use the wrong key combination to trigger the command.
3) When I shutdown (from WIn10 or LM) and reboot to Linux Mint again, the keyboard backlit as well as WIFI iwere OFF.
WiFI problem was reported here, viewtopic.php?f=53&t=343135
The problem is Linux Mint is not able to turn these devices on.
Th problem is solved if you reboot into WIn10 (but not login), then restart (but not shutdown), and select Linux Mint from the GRUB boot menu. This means using WIn10 to turn on the backlit and WIFI.
You can disable WIn10 from turning off WIFI during shutdown via Device Manager (under Adapter, I think).
But there is no means to disable turning off keyboard backlit lights when WIn10 shuts down.
Furthermore LM turns OFF keyboard backlit lights when it shuts down!
Would be nice if LM can turn on backlit keyboard lights.
Is there an app that would turn on WIFI and backlit lights?
I was able to test GPU with Superposition 2017, https://benchmark.unigine.com/superposition .
No crash problem.
Because of the crash, I was worried about bad memory bits.
I tested laptop with Passmark Memtest86, https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/how-to-test-ram
No bad bits found!
Hope this report helps someone.
Has anyone else try other Linux flavors on new or similar laptops with 5.8 kernel
and the OS is stable?