Dell G5 5505 AMD Ryzen7 Laptop not doing well on Linux
by zl3jbb from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5JEDR)
Hi. I started a thread in newbies, because I am, but I think it's got out of hand and belongs here more. Below is my last post and a link to the original, however the last post below is pretty much the whole bag at the moment and starting from here in this laptop related forum.
I'm quite new to all of this and quite well over my head at this point, I'm techy but don't have a lot of linux experience.
Original post (a lot of irrelevant - I think)
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...09#post6254009
Where I'm starting from - Kicking off from the last post in the other thread
Well I just cant get AntiX to run, so have decided to focus on one. Gone with Groovy Gorilla for the time being, and did the full install to the lappy again. Something very very wrong though. Most things do not respond after a very short time, any action seems to look like it's actioning with the whirly gig, and the first one or two do but then it's basically useless.
One of the first actions on the last boot was to open the system monitor just to have a gander at what was rolling around in there, seemed ok... then went to the file system tab (started up on Processes) and saw /dev/nvme / ext4, and /dev/nvme /boot/efi vfat. OK, it's letting me poke around, cool. Then I went to view the resources tab and this is where it stalled, this time. A few actions in to the first instance of something I am trying to use from first boot seems OK. From there it's down hill and will only start to operate after a boot with the first few things tried again. Anything I tend to do seems to result in either a "not responding" dialogue but takes a minute or so to show it, and it seems to buffer those dialogues with every "action" I try and take respectively.
; OR It pretends (or tries at least) to open things, but doesn't appear. I'm sure the process of what ever selected will be running but somehow hanging up. In these instances lets say for example to open firefox to test its operation, it will show firefox in the top left in text as though it's opening with the whirly gig next to it, but disappears after 10-15secs or so and does nothing. I can't view if the process is running because of this problem either, and it's a rather frustrating loop
Strangely the mouse operation is OK, it will let me pull open the applications window to select something, the whole thing hasn't hung per-say, so naturally I want to pop into the terminal to have more of a poke around but the response is the same with anything I try and I'm left a bit stranded. Of course this includes using the terminal to figure out a way forward. Oh and after force quitting the system monitor by dialogue selection this time, it doesn't seem to get rid of the window on screen (screen re-write, not actually force closing... pffft not sure why!?), it's also still open on the apps bar with the orange dot.
This time around with the install, I don't think it has installed the grub and cant seem to manually boot in to it either, but this might be my inexperience with this lot. I can esc in to a manual boot bringing me to the grub> and ls shows me I have (proc) (hd0) (hd0,gpt2) and (hd0,gpt1). So I try set root=(hd0,1) and get grub> and then linux /boot/vmlinuz and tab to complete but finds nothing, or at least leaves me at >linux /boot/vmlinuz on the next line.
Don't forget I am still very green at all this, there has been a of reading, and youtube, and I have little/no support with this. I just wanted to run Linux on this lappy hahahaha. In saying that, I'm enjoying the learning process but right now I'm quite stuck. I think I have done well to get it to where it is at, and hoping some linux loving genius out there reads this and gets interested, and is annoyed as me as to why a machine won't run Linux hardly LOL. Come help me oh gurus! LOL
It also seems to be !chunking! through battery, and I can't seem to boot at the moment where you can see the happenings [ OK ], [ OK ], [ OK ] etc... It's just right in there to the login screen. I'm now clicking the "post quick reply" button ROFL
I'm quite new to all of this and quite well over my head at this point, I'm techy but don't have a lot of linux experience.
Original post (a lot of irrelevant - I think)
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...09#post6254009
Where I'm starting from - Kicking off from the last post in the other thread
Well I just cant get AntiX to run, so have decided to focus on one. Gone with Groovy Gorilla for the time being, and did the full install to the lappy again. Something very very wrong though. Most things do not respond after a very short time, any action seems to look like it's actioning with the whirly gig, and the first one or two do but then it's basically useless.
One of the first actions on the last boot was to open the system monitor just to have a gander at what was rolling around in there, seemed ok... then went to the file system tab (started up on Processes) and saw /dev/nvme / ext4, and /dev/nvme /boot/efi vfat. OK, it's letting me poke around, cool. Then I went to view the resources tab and this is where it stalled, this time. A few actions in to the first instance of something I am trying to use from first boot seems OK. From there it's down hill and will only start to operate after a boot with the first few things tried again. Anything I tend to do seems to result in either a "not responding" dialogue but takes a minute or so to show it, and it seems to buffer those dialogues with every "action" I try and take respectively.
; OR It pretends (or tries at least) to open things, but doesn't appear. I'm sure the process of what ever selected will be running but somehow hanging up. In these instances lets say for example to open firefox to test its operation, it will show firefox in the top left in text as though it's opening with the whirly gig next to it, but disappears after 10-15secs or so and does nothing. I can't view if the process is running because of this problem either, and it's a rather frustrating loop
Strangely the mouse operation is OK, it will let me pull open the applications window to select something, the whole thing hasn't hung per-say, so naturally I want to pop into the terminal to have more of a poke around but the response is the same with anything I try and I'm left a bit stranded. Of course this includes using the terminal to figure out a way forward. Oh and after force quitting the system monitor by dialogue selection this time, it doesn't seem to get rid of the window on screen (screen re-write, not actually force closing... pffft not sure why!?), it's also still open on the apps bar with the orange dot.
This time around with the install, I don't think it has installed the grub and cant seem to manually boot in to it either, but this might be my inexperience with this lot. I can esc in to a manual boot bringing me to the grub> and ls shows me I have (proc) (hd0) (hd0,gpt2) and (hd0,gpt1). So I try set root=(hd0,1) and get grub> and then linux /boot/vmlinuz and tab to complete but finds nothing, or at least leaves me at >linux /boot/vmlinuz on the next line.
Don't forget I am still very green at all this, there has been a of reading, and youtube, and I have little/no support with this. I just wanted to run Linux on this lappy hahahaha. In saying that, I'm enjoying the learning process but right now I'm quite stuck. I think I have done well to get it to where it is at, and hoping some linux loving genius out there reads this and gets interested, and is annoyed as me as to why a machine won't run Linux hardly LOL. Come help me oh gurus! LOL
It also seems to be !chunking! through battery, and I can't seem to boot at the moment where you can see the happenings [ OK ], [ OK ], [ OK ] etc... It's just right in there to the login screen. I'm now clicking the "post quick reply" button ROFL