MSI GE76 Raider Laptop

Hardware Overview

Intel Tiger Lake (i7-11800H) - 8 core
Integrated Intel Graphics GPU
NVIDIA RTX 3060 Mobile GPU (secondary)
Realtek E3000 2.5GB Controller
Intel AX210 802.11abgn/ac/ax 2x2 WiFi + Bluetooth

Installation

[tbd]

Platform quirks

Wireless

(May 2025) this requires either the if_iwx driver in FreeBSD-HEAD, or iwlwifi from FreeBSD-HEAD / LinuxKPI.

Audio

(May 2025)

Audio through the built in speakers works. Audio routing via the headphones works. Audio input via the microphone doesn't work, but does via the headphone jack. (It's currently unclear whether the built-in microphone is routed via the webcam or via on-board PCM.)

Camera

The camera currently requires webcamd.

xorg desktop

You'll need to build a config file as by default xorg will try using the nvidia driver as the default monitor output and that's not what we want.

If you load the nvidia/i915kms driver and run nvidia-xconfig, it'll generate a config which .. doesn't work. You'll need to add a block for the intel driver and then set the monitor up to use the intel driver. Use pciconf -lv | grep vgapci to list the graphics devices; the one with the vendor 0x8086 is Intel.

My config (7-Sep-2025) in /etc/X11/xorg.conf is:

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 570.169

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "keyboard"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

# nvidia
#
Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device1"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    BusID          "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

# intel

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "modesetting"
    BusID          "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

High idle power - NVIDIA GPU

(May 2025) The nvidia hardware will take 25W if nvidia-drm is not loaded. It's recommended that you install nvidia-drm - then verify with "nvidia-smi" that the idle power is at 8W.

The following (with acpi_call installed and kldload'ed) can manually control the power, but this will result in pcm errors as it powers off the HDMI sound interface. Only do this if you know what you're doing:

# acpi_call -p '\_SB_.PC00.PEG1.PEGP._OFF' -o i

And to turn it on:

# acpi_call -p '\_SB_.PC00.PEG1.PEGP._ON' -o i

You may need to do the "off" a couple times for it to properly turn off.

The idle power (measured with acpiconf -i0 with the charger disconnected):

without nvidia-drm loaded - is close to 40W
with nvidia-drm loaded - is close to 20W
with nvidia-drm not loaded, and manually disabled as above - 12W