EasyOS works on 2024 Asus Zenbook S13

[BarryK]

I'm posting about this as the Asus Zenbook S 13 model, with Intel Ultra 7 CPU, released January 2024, at first just booted to a blank screen. Took several days, but finally got video and audio working.

I bought it on January 10. Wanted a thin light 13 inch laptop for traveling. Posted about it here:

https://bkhome.org/news/202501/asus-zen ... aptop.html

After some online reading, users reported success with Manjaro, so tried that:

https://bkhome.org/news/202501/installi ... -s-13.html

Then tried Linux Mint 22.1, which also worked ...until the third bootup... posted about it:

https://bkhome.org/news/202501/installi ... -s-13.html

As a guide to anyone else who has, or plans to buy, a new laptop with Intel Ultra CPU, I finally was able to compile a kernel for EasyOS with video and audio working:

https://bkhome.org/news/202501/easyos-a ... -s-13.html

Apart from compiling the 6.12.10 kernel with appropriate config, also needed appropriate firmware. I created a 'firmware_linux_zenbook' PET for the new firmware:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/noarc ... 250122.pet

The secret that fixed the video is the kernel commandline "intel_iommu=igfx_off", but it would be good if we can discover some other fix that doesn't require anything on the kernel commandline.
I did read something else, to turn off "intel vt" (intel virtualization technology) in the UEFI-setup, but I read somewhere else that doing so will stuff up the Windows installation.

Note that the kernel used in EasyOS would most likely work in the woof-CE built pups that use aufs, not overlayfs. The config file can be got out of the "build-kernel" tarball from here:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/sourc ... -20250121/

...it is a big kernel, with everything (needed to bootup) builtin, so you can have an initrd without any modules.

[BarryK]

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[BarryK]

I received an email from Douglas, reporting success with a new Dell Inspiron Plus 14.

Quoting from his email:

I also bought a new laptop recently, a Dell Inspiron Plus 14. Although EasyOS runs on my other two laptops, one an HP Pavilion, the other an HP Stream, I was saddened to find that I could not get it to run with the graphic display on this new laptop.
After reading about your adventures with your new Asus laptop. I thought that the latest version Scarthgap64 6.5.6 might run properly now, because of the changes you made, and sure enough it does! I am getting a fine display, everything just works!
I can tell you that I have found that Manjaro just works, as do Mint and Ubuntu though certain other distros I have tried don't display graphics on my new Dell Inspiron.
So I am very happy now to be able to run EasyOS again on my "main" laptop!
I really appreciate the work you do, so please keep going.