HP OmniBook Ultra Flip

[pedro_m]

Hi, I am thinking about buy HP OmniBook Ultra Flip 14-fh0355nc unit, but my main OS is Linux / Ubuntu.

It is there any "knowledge base" about if it will work ubuntu with this unit ?

[pedro_m]

up up up

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I am in the process of trying to get this very combination working. Had to disable stock Bitlocker, secure boot to get installation from USB stick working.

A fresh Ubuntu 24.10 boots fine. I'm using the default Gnome flavour.

Just works:

• Apparently all the basics (Display, 
• Touchscreen + pen are recognised. Short test in Krita surprisingly good, basic notes with Rnote

Not working:

• Accelerometer sensors for automatic screen rotation. Looks like the kernel does not have suitable drivers (yet?)
• Bluetooth, but there's activity to add the missing firmware as I type this (Launchpad Bug)
• Fingerprint sensor. But this seems to be quite endemic, never got a XPS 13's one working either...

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One day later: update on Bluetooth

• By adding oracular-proposed to the apt sources, updating package linux-firmware pulls in the missing BT driver. This will eventually land in the main repos, but if you want it working now, that does it. 

[pedro_m]

first of all, thank you very much for your help and all of tests

secondly, please can you comment on how the touchpad (haptic) works, battery life, performance and especially fan noise during youtube 4k video ?

please please please

[pedro_m]

up up up

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Touchpad: "just works", no fiddling necessary, haptic is pleasant, Gnome settings allow customizing tapping / scrolling behaviours.

Battery life: not tested extensively, but so far no massive drain, even with video (webmeetings)

4K video fan noise: almost impossible to hear, even with muted video sound. Ambient noise + video sound are louder, so the laptop is practically silent, except maybe when compiling stuff.

Also: don't bump (UP UP) your posts.

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Some more observations after multiple day of use:

- Fractional scaling on the internal display leads to glitched mouse pointers and graphical artifacts. Not unusable, but this will need some patching. Quite confident that these will land eventually.

- Quite fresh: NPU drivers have arrived in form of a snap: https://github.com/canonical/intel-npu-driver-snap - not gotten to do something with it, but I'll post once I have run some models

[pedro_m]

thx for help

btw. I will do UP UP never again