Installing EndeavourOS on Samsung Laptop

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Hi. I am trying to install endeavouros on my samsung laptop, an Samsung Galaxy Book 2 (750XED). But I have two issues with it.

If I boot into the live iso with normal graphics, it boots, shows the cursor for a few seconds (no background), and then just turns into a black screen.
If I boot into safe graphics, the system boots and is usable, but when i tested all things were working on the laptop, the keybinds for the screen brightness didn’t work. I dont think it is an issue with the keyboard layout or something, because the volume function buttons work.

I searched up some stuff about safe graphics, and it says that it is not recommended to use safe graphics permanently, it is better to get the official intel graphics working.

I am using Ventoy for the usb im installing from.
I would appreciate it if someone would help me with these issues.
Thanks :slight_smile:

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Hi @Mathias ,
As for brightness control:
yay -S brightnessctl
In terminal

brightnessctl s 5%-
brightnessctl s 5%+

otherwise: https://github.com/joshuagrisham/galaxy-book2-pro-linux

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Thank you.

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For brightness setting to work, the Arch wiki recommends adding kernel parameter

i915.enable_dpcd_backlight=3

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Laptop/Samsung

Edit: just noticed the link by @eso gives the same kernel parameter.

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Thank you. One more question. The guide @eso mentioned says to use powertop. But does powertop conflict with the power settings included in kde?

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Not for me at least… but that might be hardware dependent.
I’m using wayland now, but also used x11 for a long time.

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Thank you. Do you also by any chance know what might be causing the issues with the black screen when i boot the live iso without the nomodeset parameter?

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Some graphics driver or setting for the hardware may not be suitable…
Fortunately you managed to get it working by changing the boot parameters. :+1:

Arch wiki provides lots of useful information about modeset stuff, might be worth looking into for your hardware.

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Thank you for your time :slight_smile: