HCL - NovaCustom/NitroPad V54 with NVIDIA GPU

layout:
  'hcl'
type:
  'Notebook'
hvm:
  'yes'
iommu:
  'yes'
slat:
  'yes'
tpm:
  '2.0'
remap:
  'yes'
brand: |
  Notebook
model: |
  V5xTNC_TND_TNE
bios: |
  Dasharo (coreboot+UEFI) v0.9.1
cpu: |
  Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 7 155H
cpu-short: |
  FIXME
chipset: |
  Intel Corporation Meteor Lake-H 6p+8e cores Host Bridge/DRAM Controller [8086:7d01] (rev 04)
chipset-short: |
  FIXME
gpu: |
  Intel Corporation Meteor Lake-P [Intel Arc Graphics] [8086:7d55] (rev 08) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
  
  NVIDIA Corporation AD106M [GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q / Mobile] [10de:2820] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
  
gpu-short: |
  FIXME
network: |
  Intel Corporation Meteor Lake-P Gaussian & Neural-Network Accelerator [8086:7e4c] (rev 20)
  Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 15)
  Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 7(802.11be) AX1775*/AX1790*/BE20*/BE401/BE1750* 2x2 [8086:272b] (rev 1a)
memory: |
  40596
scsi: |

usb: |
  3
certified:
  'no'
versions:
  - works:
      'FIXME:yes|no|partial'
    qubes: |
      R4.3-rc3
    xen: |
      4.19.3
    kernel: |
      6.12.54-1
    remark: |
      FIXME
    credit: |
      FIXAUTHOR
    link: |
      FIXLINK

I have the RTX 4070 variant and have some problems on Qubes 4.3-rc3.

There is a big problem with the battery charging

The battery doesn’t charge for me above 93%. So whenever I connected the laptop to the AC it charged the battery although it was basically full. This lead to extremely fast degradation of the battery capacity and the laptop got very hot.

There are a few fixes one should absolutely apply to not kill the battery within one week:

  • Change Dasharo firmware thresholds when to start and stop charging.
    • Set high charge threshold below the highest percentage Qubes charges (e.g. 93%). Better is 70% if you have it connected to AC all the time anyways.
    • See the docs how to do it: Features - Dasharo Universe
  • Suspend doesn’t seem to work? At least the fans don’t stop spinning. But the power light blinks and the laptop seems to be suspended. Waking up from suspend works fine though.

External modnitor via HDMI: Doesn’t work.

Some optimizations

  • Optimize power with powertop, especially important to not have the dGPU draw power all the time:
    • sudo qubes-dom0-update install powertop && sudo systemctl enable powertop.service
    • This optimizes all devices’ power usage. Read powertop’s docs for more details.

Heads support

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