HP Envy 15t-j000 Quad Edition

Device	PCI/USB ID	Working?
GPU		Yes
Ethernet		Yes
Wireless		Yes
Audio		Yes
Touchpad		Yes
Camera		Yes
Card Reader		Yes
Fingerprint Reader		No

The HP Envy 15t-j000 Quad Edition is a laptop released in 2013.

Installation

This laptop has secure boot enabled by default. In order to install Arch this should be disabled. UEFI should be set to legacy mode.

Battery and Power Management

The rated battery life for this laptop is 9hrs and with configuration 5.5 hrs is usually possible^{[dead link 2024-01-13 ⓘ]}.

Install acpi, thermald, tlp, iw, smartmontools, intel-ucode and cpupower.

Start/enable thermald.service and cpupower.service

See TLP for details on its configuration and the page dedicated to the microcode for explanation on loading it.

Trackpad

The trackpad for this laptop supports a virtual scroll wheel. To enable it, comment out the following:

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf

Section "InputClass"
       Identifier "evdev touchpad catchall"
       MatchIsTouchpad "on"
       MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
       Driver "evdev"
EndSection

GPU

If you have the version of this laptop with an NVIDIA card, see NVIDIA Optimus.

Fingerprint Reader

This laptop comes with a fingerprint reader but there is no Linux driver for it.

mSATA SSD

This laptop has a mSATA bay that can be used as a cache for a hard drive. See Bcache or LVM#Cache for details.