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.
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