pwyoung

# Goal, be able to boot to PopOS again

# PROBLEM: This system (ROG GS733QSA) is nuts. 
  It only boots into PopOS-21.10. Also, the UEFI entries were just reset apparently because it booted to Windows.
  This caused:
  - PopOs UEFI entries to disappear
  - Bios sound-on-boot to come back (even though it was deactivated).
# NOTES: 
  The sound has to be deactivated in BIOS via a user app (Windows Crate, or asus-linux apps).
  This is because this Bios has been stripped of virtually all user switches (e.g. for virtualization, GPU control, etc).

pwyoung

Goal: Record what was done after initial setup of PopOS-21.10 on the laptop.

Background: 
  - Prior setup steps are here: 
    - https://gist.github.com/pwyoung/e5bf9e41e166cb89ad63b6e7782ce311
  
Problems:
  - WIFI flakiness.
    - Supposedly this wifi chip flakes out on Windows too. But here's the observed behaviour.
    - Observed behaviour:

pwyoung

GOAL: Be able to utilize Asus Rog G733QSA "properly":
- without fear of getting "stuck" at a black screen
- with the ability to use an external monitor or the internal monitor
- without fear that my stack is running relatively unsecured/ungoverned and/or very old code.
- ideally, with the ability to run Windows via QEMU and VFIO

CURRENT PAIN POINTS:
- Booting to almost all Linux Live USB distros results in a black screen.
  PopOS21.10 is the only exception (details below).
- Sometimes booting results in a black screen. 

pwyoung

# Goal: Follow asus-linix Fedora docs as much as possible to get a system working properly

https://asus-linux.org/wiki/fedora-guide/

Notes:
  - Before installation, it was confirmed that the iGPU was in "auto" mode in Windows in the Crate software.
  - Due to behviour of this laptop (G733QSA), I can not follow the instructions to not use an external monitor (at all times anyway).
    https://asus-linux.org/wiki/fedora-guide/#use-the-laptop-screen
    There are two cases where booting to a black screen seemed inevitable until I added the second monitor
    - The Fedora-34-workstation-spin live usb boots to a black screen when using only the laptop's screen.

pwyoung

# goal: Figure out how to run a command (e.g. xrandr) as GDM starts
# Specifically, I am hitting a situation as described here: 
#  - https://asus-linux.org/faq/#why-did-nvidia-mode-give-me-black-screen-with-xorg
#   "there are many ways to do this so you will need to search for the right way for your login manager."
# The problem is that on GDM, on Fedora, this seems to not be supported.

Notes:

This bug was aggressively ignored since 2012 and then closed.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=851769

pwyoung

# Goal: Follow asus-linix Fedora docs as much as possible to get a system working properly

https://asus-linux.org/wiki/fedora-guide/

Notes:
  - Before installation, it was confirmed that the iGPU was in "auto" mode in Windows in the Crate software.
  - Due to behviour of this laptop (G733QSA), I can not follow the instructions to not use an external monitor (at all times anyway).
    https://asus-linux.org/wiki/fedora-guide/#use-the-laptop-screen
    There are two cases where booting to a black screen seemed inevitable until I added the second monitor
    - The Fedora-34-workstation-spin live usb boots to a black screen when using only the laptop's screen.