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Models covered
HP Envy 15 Notebook
Debian version tested
Stretch 9.3 (stable) AMD64 - GNU/Linux
Sub-models (15 as008nf) options :
- Processor : Intel® Core™ i7-6560U CPU @ 2.20GHz × 4
- Video card : Intel® Iris Graphics 540 (Skylake GT3e)
- Screen size : 15.6" 1920x1080 16:9
- Wireless card : Intel Wireless 7265 NGW (driver D version)
- Disk 1 : Samsung NVMe SSD 256Gb
- Disk 2 : WDC_WD10SPCX 1Tb
- RAM size : 8Gb
- Audio Card : Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio
- Audio speakers Bang & Olufsen
- 3 USB ports
- 1 HDMI port
- SD card reader
Despite the same commercial name HP Envy 15, this model 15as008nf have a lot of differences with the j104sl already reported in this wiki
Overall Status
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LAN network card: |
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Detect CD/DVD: |
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Detect hard drives: |
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CPU Frequency Scaling |
[?] |
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Hibernation |
[?] |
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Sleep / Suspend |
[?] |
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Xorg |
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- OpenGL |
[?] |
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- Resize-and-Rotate(randr) |
[?] |
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Switch to External Screen |
[?] |
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Mouse |
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- Built-in (Trackpoint) |
[?] |
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- Built-in (Touchpad) |
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Modem |
[?] |
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Wireless/Wifi |
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Keyboard's Hotkeys |
[?] |
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~-Legend :
= OK ; 
Unsupported(No Driver) ; ![/!\](/htdocs/debwiki/img/alert.png "/!\"){kind=small}
= Error (Couldn't get it working); [?] Unknown, Not Test ; [-] Not-applicable
= Configuration Required; 
= Only works with a non-free driver and or firmware
Important Note
1 - HP provide support only for Windows 10 and 7 from their support page
2 - UPGRADE BIOS to the newest version before installing Debian (or any other distribution) - from windows (found on HP support) or from HP Utility (again to install on USB from windows ...) Check BIOS version in BIOS menu pressing F10 at startup
HP support for this model 15 as008nf The machine I bought was shipped with a revision F08 of the BIOS which made me scratched (and eventually banged) my head for month before being able to install any distribution of GNU/Linux on the internal SSD NVMe drive. The NVMe disk was randomly not recognized at startup, leading to no boot device error when grub was installed on it or to not being able to access it as secondary disk (I finally thought it was dead).
3 - If you want to boot from primary NVMe drive, note that grub should be installed in EFI mode as BIOS mode may lead to boot issues.
4 - Disable Secure Boot as it is default option and not yet supported by Debian F10 to enter BIOS
Installation notes
1 - Create a Debian USB boot drive from windows, if you only have this laptop in hands, with Rufus for example. And refer to Wifi Note before removing windows.
2 - Press F9 to select boot option and select your drive
3 - I recommend avoiding graphical install to be able to access console (to mount pen drive to /lib/firmware for example)
4 - Be careful when using automatic partitioning by Debian installer on 256Gb NVMe drive as it will create a 250Mb /boot partition only, think of purging old kernels or by manually allocating more space to /boot partition
Configuration
Display
- (not covered yet)
Audio
- (not covered yet)
Mouse
No tapping after install, I have not been able yet to configure libinput for the pad to allow tapping
Power Management
Good power management, battery charge, charge display.
A couple of errors are displayed in journal by Kernel related to ACPI, which in my experience didn't lead to any issue (probably due to this BIOS which expect windows) : kernel: platform MSFT0101:00: failed to claim resource 1
kernel: acpi MSFT0101:00: platform device creation failed: -16
then ACPI Error: [\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.H_EC.LHT_] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20160831/psargs-359)
kernel: ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_TZ.TZ02._HOT] (Node ffff8895a624a618), AE_NOT_FOUND (20160831/psparse-543)
kernel: ACPI Error: [\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.H_EC.LHT_] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20160831/psargs-359)
kernel: ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_TZ.TZ02._HOT] (Node ffff8895a624a618), AE_NOT_FOUND (20160831/psparse-543)
then ACPI Error: [\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.H_EC.ECAV] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20160831/psargs-359)
kernel: ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB.PCI0.B0D4._TMP] (Node ffff8895a623a000), AE_NOT_FOUND (20160831/psparse-543)
WiFi
The Intel Wireless 7265 shipped with this model won't work unless you provide non-free firmwares iwlwifi-7265D
You can find these firmwares either in :
* Non-free Debian install
* Or in the package firmware-iwlwifi.deb
* Or in the Kernel Page as ucode files to put at the root of a pen drive at the time of install
Note 1a : The most recent firmware seems to be version 22 (iwlwifi-7265D-22.ucode), while Debian install (Kernel ?) will ask for versions from 16 to 26 As I don't like to see error messages at startup, I symlinked the 23, 24, 25, 26 versions to the 22.
Note 1b : For the one who wonder, version 23, 24, 25 and 26 are noted as internal released and seem not to have been released for public.
Note 2 : At the time I am writing, the firmware provided by Intel at "Linux* Support for Intel® Wireless Adapters" page are not up to date (version 14) and are not accepted by the Kernel
Modem
- (not covered yet)
System Summary
lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Skylake Host Bridge/DRAM Registers [8086:1904] (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Iris Graphics 540 [8086:1926] (rev 0a)
00:04.0 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation Skylake Processor Thermal Subsystem [8086:1903] (rev 09)
00:08.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Skylake Gaussian Mixture Model [8086:1911]
00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP USB 3.0 xHCI Controller [8086:9d2f] (rev 21)
00:14.2 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Thermal subsystem [8086:9d31] (rev 21)
00:15.0 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #0 [8086:9d60] (rev 21)
00:15.1 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #1 [8086:9d61] (rev 21)
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP CSME HECI #1 [8086:9d3a] (rev 21)
00:17.0 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP SATA Controller [AHCI mode] [8086:9d03] (rev 21)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:9d12] (rev f1)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #5 [8086:9d14] (rev f1)
00:1d.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #9 [8086:9d18] (rev f1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP LPC Controller [8086:9d48] (rev 21)
00:1f.2 Memory controller [0580]: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PMC [8086:9d21] (rev 21)
00:1f.3 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio [8086:9d70] (rev 21)
00:1f.4 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP SMBus [8086:9d23] (rev 21)
01:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Wireless 7265 [8086:095a] (rev 61)
02:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS522A PCI Express Card Reader [10ec:522a] (rev 01)
08:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller [0108]: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd NVMe SSD Controller [144d:a802] (rev 01)
lsusb
lsusb -v | grep -E '\<(Bus|iProduct|bDeviceClass|bDeviceProtocol)' 2>/dev/null
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Couldn't open device, some information will be missing
bDeviceClass 9 Hub
bDeviceProtocol 3
iProduct 2
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 8087:0a2a Intel Corp.
bDeviceClass 224 Wireless
bDeviceProtocol 1 Bluetooth
iProduct 0
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05c8:038e Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd (Foxlink)
bDeviceClass 239 Miscellaneous Device
bDeviceProtocol 1 Interface Association
iProduct 1
(Bus Powered)
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
bDeviceClass 9 Hub
bDeviceProtocol 1 Single TT
iProduct 2