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# System76 Galago Pro galp3

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Hardware | PCI/USB ID | Working?
--- | --- | ---
GPU (Intel) | `` | Yes
GPU (NVIDIA) | `` | No
Audio | `` | Yes
Microphone |  | Yes
Speakers |  | Yes
Webcam |  | Yes
Bluetooth |  | Yes
Ethernet | `` | Yes
Wireless | `` | Yes
SD-card reader | `` | Yes
Fingerprint reader |  | No

## OEM software

System76 develops a special distribution (Pop!_OS) for their computers, and it comes with many tweaks and tools to ensure a seamless end-user experience. Arch does not have these out of the box; and unfortunately, sometimes their computers do not work right without them. Thankfully, it is possible to get the same first-class hardware support in Arch Linux that you have in Pop!_OS -- it just takes a little elbow grease.

### Packages

All necessary packages can be found in the AUR. It is recommended to install everything in the list below.

Modules

- system76-dkmsAUR
- system76-acpi-dkmsAUR
- system76-io-dkmsAUR

Daemons

- system76-driverAUR
- system76-powerAUR (needed for System76 switchable graphics)
- system76-firmware-daemonAUR (seems to be needed for things like audio to work right)

Other

- system76-firmwareAUR (required if you want to update your BIOS)
- firmware-managerAUR (required if you want to know when there is a BIOS update available)

(There are also "-git" versions of many of these packages, if you wish to stay bleeding edge.)

### Settings

Once you have installed the above, you will need to tell your computer to use them.

#### Services

Enable the following services with `systemctl enable`: (source)

- `system76`
- `system76-firmware-daemon`
- `system76-power`

#### Drivers

To make sure all drivers are being loaded correctly, run `system76-driver-cli`; this will automatically add necessary rules to `/etc/modprobe.d`, and execute `mkinitcpio`.

Note: However, as of 2021-04-06, this creates a malformed `s76-i915-mkinitcpio.conf` file, and a redundant (if you have `system76-power.conf`) `system76-driver_i2c-nvidia-gpu.conf` file. As such, this step may be skippable, for the time-being.

### BIOS updates

To check your current BIOS version and whether there is a new version available, run `firmware-manager` as root. Keep in-mind that this is a GTK application, so you need to be running X or Wayland for it to run. (It has no CLI -- it does not even respond to `--help`.)

To update your system to the latest firmware on the next boot, run `system76-firmware-cli schedule`.

## Suspend/hibernate

Out of the box, Arch Linux does not resume a previously suspended or hibernated session. To support hibernation, ensure that you have swap space equal to or greater than your system memory (RAM), and add "resume" to your `/etc/mkinitcpio.conf` file, per the instructions here.

  NOTE: hibernation has yet to be tested on this device; but suspension seems to work... sometimes.

## Troubleshooting

### system76-firmware: EFI mount point not found

If using the new (replacement) EFI mount point `/efi`, ensure you have the mount present in `etc/fstab`. You may find the appropriate device to mount by using a combination of lsblk and fdisk -l.

    # fdisk -l # List disks (one device will be designated as "EFI System")
    # lsblk    # List devices and mount points, you should see the EFI system device, and confirm whether it is mounted/unmounted
    # mount device /efi
    #
    # genfstab -U / # (optional) print fstab configuration for inclusion/merging into /etc/fstab

After doing the above, it might be a good idea to schedule a firmware update:

    # system76-firmware-cli schedule

#### With grub

After scheduling a firmware update, ensure that GRUB is set to use the EFI partition like so:

    # grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/efi --bootloader-id=grub
    # cp /boot/grub/grub.cfg /boot/grub/grub.cfg.bak
    # grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Restart to trigger the firmware update.

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