Fedora Linux on the GPD Win Max

Hello there again! I’m working to get Fedora Linux up and running on the GPD Win Max this time around.

I’ll be brief; most Linux distros don’t configure the display properly at all, though all hardware functions as intended. I’ve tested Manjaro, Ubuntu and Fedora successfully with all the hardware buttons/sticks/wifi etc performing spectacularly.

It’s mainly the below issue that I’m figuring out now:

I will add a dedicated page on this site when I get everything up and running. I’m not much in the way of automating system changes yet on Fedora, so perhaps in the future either I’ll script this or someone can learn from what I’ve done and build a neat little script to do this.

So far it seems Martin Wimpress is working on scripts that allow Ubuntu respins to work on these GPD Win devices, but I’d love to get it running on Fedora or Manjaro more…especially Fedora, since I deem dnf to be a far more sane package manager, but I digress…

So far I have been following this reddit post on how to get the firmware for the screen loaded as well as get the proper grub parameters for this device. Having not edited grub files in at least a year, I had to relearn that Fedora uses the grub2-mkconfig command.

After changing the grub parameters accordingly for the display resolution and to load the edid firmware file (that I copied from their pasta in the post), I’m now stuck here:
drm.edid_firmware=eDP-1:edid/gpdwinmax.bin: no such file or directory

So I’ll probably have a future blog post here, when I get further! Feel free to comment and thanks for reading my struggles hahaha.