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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.

## Backlight

On some kernels the laptop backlight will not turn on, leaving a black screen on boot. This can be solved with the following kernel parameter:

    acpi_backlight=vendor

## Battery and Power Management

The rated battery life for this laptop is 9hrs and with configuration 5.5 hrs is usually possible.

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.

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