Setup Guide 2020: Asus ROG Zephyrus GA502 Ryzen 7 3750H + Nvidia GTX 1660 Ti

[victor7095]

Yes I confirm, currently running Pop!_OS 20.04 with kernel 5.7.7 and nVidia drivers 440.100 and everything is finally running flawlessly so far!
I'll keep an eye on the clock speed and temperatures for a few days but it looks like this mess is finally solved for good, fingers crossed!

 cedric  ~  neofetch
             /////////////                cedric@jarvis
         /////////////////////            --------------------------- 
      ///////*767////////////////         OS: Pop!_OS 20.04 LTS x86_64 
    //////7676767676*//////////////       Host: Zephyrus G GU502DU_GA502DU 1.0 
   /////76767//7676767//////////////      Kernel: 5.7.7-050707-generic 
  /////767676///*76767///////////////     Uptime: 20 mins 
 ///////767676///76767.///7676*///////    Packages: 2904 (dpkg), 4 (snap), 1 (appimaged) 
/////////767676//76767///767676////////   Shell: bash 5.0.16 
//////////76767676767////76767/////////   Resolution: 1920x1080, 1920x1080 
///////////76767676//////7676//////////   DE: GNOME 
////////////,7676,///////767///////////   WM: Mutter 
/////////////*7676///////76////////////   WM Theme: Pop 
///////////////7676////////////////////   Theme: Pop-dark [GTK2/3] 
 ///////////////7676///767////////////    Icons: Pop [GTK2/3] 
  //////////////////////'////////////     Terminal: gnome-terminal 
   //////.7676767676767676767,//////      CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3750H with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx (8) @ 2.300GHz 
    /////767676767676767676767/////       GPU: AMD ATI 05:00.0 Picasso 
      ///////////////////////////         GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile 
         /////////////////////            Memory: 3602MiB / 23793MiB 
             /////////////
                                                                  




 cedric  ~  nvidia-smi
Mon Jul  6 11:54:55 2020       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 440.100      Driver Version: 440.100      CUDA Version: 10.2     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  GeForce GTX 166...  Off  | 00000000:01:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| N/A   53C    P8     6W /  N/A |    487MiB /  5944MiB |     12%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                               
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                       GPU Memory |
|  GPU       PID   Type   Process name                             Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|    0      4356      G   /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg                            80MiB |
|    0      5674      G   /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg                           155MiB |
|    0     10507      G   /usr/bin/gnome-shell                         116MiB |
|    0     34767      G   ...AAAAAAAAAAAACAAAAAAAAAA= --shared-files   123MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

I coudn`t install Pop OS since it fails at the end of installation. Some error about hardware. I Think it's installed but it failed at grub configuration

[albator1932]

I coudn`t install Pop OS since it fails at the end of installation. Some error about hardware. I Think it's installed but it failed at grub configuration

Well it's going to be hard to solve with such information... I have installed Pop!_OS 19.10 and 20.04 several times on this machine and never had any issue with the install process.

[ashwath998]

Hey man, I'm planning to install pop too on the same system. Did you have to do anything specified in this thread during the pop installation to get it working? Anything I should look out for?

thanks

[marklaz]

First of all, I want to thank you for this guide, literally saved my day last week and has been user-friendly enough even for a 15 years away from Linux user to understand.

I only upgraded the kernel to 5.7.11 (as of July 29th) which also fixes nVidia Graphics, so if someone is struggling about it with 5.6 or with the patching of 5.4 (I got a lot of errors on the diff command so I went on to the latest stable kernel), this is a good option.
And if you want to update the tutorial, the 5.4 kernel patch is not working anymore (at least, it didn't for me).

mkdir kernel5.7.11 && cd kernel5.7.11

wget https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.7.11/amd64/linux-headers-5.7.11-050711-generic_5.7.11-050711.202007290540_amd64.deb
wget https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.7.11/amd64/linux-headers-5.7.11-050711_5.7.11-050711.202007290540_all.deb
wget https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.7.11/amd64/linux-image-unsigned-5.7.11-050711-generic_5.7.11-050711.202007290540_amd64.deb
wget https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.7.11/amd64/linux-modules-5.7.11-050711-generic_5.7.11-050711.202007290540_amd64.deb

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

[mussifer]

Hi, i've been following this thread for a while looking for a solution on this issue. So far i haven't been able to get rid of the thermal throttle, mainly because i can't update the kernel of due to the speed of the laptop when it's throttled, so i'm looking for any linux image with kernel 5.7+ preinstalled. @albator1932: Does Pop! comes with this or you also had to update? I would appreciate any help as i need to work on my thesis on linux in this laptop. Thanks

[nonlogin]

There are better laptop options for maybe only $200 more.

Hello! Sorry for off topic but can you recommend some model please? Something with a bit shorter Ubuntu instruction

[g1k]

Could you please share how you managed to install nvidia drivers. As i am facing gui boot issues after installing the drivers. Wifi, thermal issues got resolved with kernel 5.7.11 but it didn't solve the nvidia driver problems.

Thank you

[CelticWarrior]

@g1k

The tutorial doesn't mention but assumes Secure Boot is disabled. Please check yours.