Find a reference for creating a bootable Ubuntu 18.04 USB. You’ll need to follow one of the references below to make BIOS changes for the disk, secure boot, and legacy boot options.
Hit F12 while booting, and select the USB UEFI device corresponding to your USB key. Unless you alter the Grub command line, Ubuntu Live will hang initializing the NVIDIA card. When the Grub screen comes up, hit ‘e’ to edit, and add at least the ‘nomodeset acpi_rev_override=1’.
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_backlight=none acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=\"Windows 2009\" nvidia-drm.modeset=1 acpi_rev_override=1"
At this point, you should be able to partition as you wish, or just follow the simple path through the installer GUI. After booting for the first time, you’ll need to make this GRUB line permanent.
sudo update-grub
https://askubuntu.com/questions/716957/what-do-the-nomodeset-quiet-and-splash-kernel-parameters-mean
https://github.com/rcasero/doc/wiki/Ubuntu-linux-on-Dell-XPS-15-(9560)
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=223056
https://www.nicchan.me/blog/dual-booting-ubuntu-with-windows-10-on-a-dell-xps-15/
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Resizing_LVM-on-LUKS
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ResizeEncryptedPartitions
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2368752
gksudo gedit /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/10_unity_greeter_background.gschema.override
Insert text
[com.canonical.unity-greeter] draw-grid=false
Then
sudo glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas
After install, open software settings, go to drivers and install NVDIA proprietary driver The version number of the driver may vary. The first time I installed, it was 384. It’s in the 440’s now.
In /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-graphics-drivers.conf, add
options nvidia_440_drm modeset=1
Then exit to terminal and do
sudo update-initramfs -u
https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-disable-nouveau-nvidia-driver-on-ubuntu-18-04-bionic-beaver-linux
$ sudo bash -c "echo blacklist nouveau > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia-nouveau.conf" $ sudo bash -c "echo options nouveau modeset=0 >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia-nouveau.conf" $ cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia-nouveau.conf blacklist nouveau options nouveau modeset=0 $ sudo update-initramfs -u
Also
https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1029916/linux/video-tearing-with-geforce-gtx-1050/
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1046263/dell-xps-15-9570-2018-disable-nvidia-gpu
https://pandasauce.org/post/ubuntu-on-xps-15-9560/
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nouveau-summer-2018&num=1
https://medium.com/@agathver/nvidia-gpu-optimus-prime-and-ubuntu-18-04-woes-f52e7f850f3d
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1007960/display-resolution-not-being-recognized
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=181248
http://www.planar.com/products/desktop-touch-screen-monitors/24-inch/pxl2780mw/
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Resolution
https://askubuntu.com/questions/611784/how-to-debug-xrandr-not-setting-up-the-desired-resolution
https://superuser.com/questions/679923/ubuntus-max-resolution-is-1024x768-unknown-monitor
The touchpad uses the synaptics driver by default. libinput is better at this point, and much less sensitive and finicky. Install one, and uninstall the other.
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-libinput xorg-input-abi-22 xserver-xorg-core sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
Then edit your libinput conf to speed up pointer tracking a bit.
gksudo gedit /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-libinput.confEdit, but be super careful. This can result in X not starting and you are left with a blank screen. If that happens, hit Ctrl-Alt-F<something else>, open another text-based vty and remove the offending line.
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "libinput touchpad catchall"
MatchIsTouchpad "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Option "AccelSpeed" "1.0"
Option "Natural Scrolling Enabled" "1"
MatchDriver "libinput"
EndSection
Can also put these in .bashrc. You need to check your libinput device number though. Mine was 16. If you get this wrong, it won’t break anything; it just won’t work. It looks like you can also use the full name of the device in quotes, instead of the number.
xinput set-prop 16 "libinput Accel Speed" +1
xinput set-prop 16 "libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled" 1If you end up switching window managers to i3 or something like it, like I did, you’ll need some backlight and sound control config stuff. You won’t need this if you stick to gnome. (Or at least I don’t now with 18.04. I can’t easily go back to check 16.04 at this point). https://gitlab.com/wavexx/acpilight
chrbrn@u1b863e0b90e952:~/Downloads/acpilight-master$ sudo make install -vCDt /usr/bin xbacklight removed '/usr/bin/xbacklight' 'xbacklight' -> '/usr/bin/xbacklight' install -vCDt /usr/share/man/man1 xbacklight.1 'xbacklight.1' -> '/usr/share/man/man1/xbacklight.1' install -vCDt /etc/udev/rules.d 90-backlight.rules '90-backlight.rules' -> '/etc/udev/rules.d/90-backlight.rules' udevadm trigger -s backlight -c add
sudo chmod aog+rw /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness
chrbrn@u1b863e0b90e952:~/Downloads/acpilight-master$ xbacklight -inc 20
chrbrn@u1b863e0b90e952:~/Downloads/acpilight-master$ xbacklight -dec 20Without changing perms on that file, you’ll get access denied and scripts calling xbacklight will silently fail. That pseudo-file is regenerated at each boot and thus you’ll have to redo that workaround every time.
Or better yet, create udev rules.d for backlight permissions From https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/481490/no-outputs-have-backlight-property-but-xorg-conf-is-configured-and-xbacklight
cat /etc/udev/rules.d/80-backlight.rules ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="backlight", KERNEL=="intel_backlight", RUN+="/bin/chgrp video /sys/class/backlight/%k/brightness" ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="backlight", KERNEL=="intel_backlight", RUN+="/bin/chmod g+w /sys/class/backlight/%k/brightness"
cat /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Graphics"
Driver "intel"
Option "Backlight" "intel_backlight"
EndSection
- Install ‘blueman’
- Run ‘blueman-manager’
- Then proceed with discovery & pairing
https://askubuntu.com/questions/833322/pair-bose-quietcomfort-35-with-ubuntu-over-bluetooth
gksudo gedit /etc/bluetooth/main.confControllerMode bredr
This is mostly for Emacs users..
Edit /etc/default/keyboard
XKBOPTIONS="ctrl:swapcaps"
or
cat /etc/profile.d/keyboard.sh # shellcheck shell=sh setxkbmap -option ctrl:swapcaps setxkbmap -layout dvorak
https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard#Set_Keyboard_Layout_in_initramfs
This keeps the ‘alt’ key from interfering with Emacs https://askubuntu.com/questions/122209/how-do-i-modify-or-disable-the-huds-use-of-the-alt-key I set it to ‘Alt R’ instead
i3 or leftWM https://github.com/leftwm/leftwm.git
Install slock from source https://tools.suckless.org/slock/
slock git:(master) ✗ git remote -v origin https://git.suckless.org/slock (fetch) origin https://git.suckless.org/slock (push)
Create a user /etc/systemd/system/[email protected] unit to automatically lock on suspend https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Slock#Lock_on_suspend
[Unit] Description=Lock X session using slock for user %i Before=sleep.target [Service] User=%i Environment=DISPLAY=:0 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/xset dpms force suspend ExecStart=/usr/bin/slock [Install] WantedBy=sleep.target
Or install i3lock from source for a bit more functionality
git clone https://github.com/i3/i3lock sudo apt install -y libev-dev libxcb-xinerama0-dev libxcb-xinerama0-dev libxkbcommon-x11-dev \ libpam0g-dev libxcb-image0-dev libxcb-util-dev libxcb-xrm-dev
Other stuff I install…
http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2017/04/install-emacs-25-ppa-ubuntu-16-04-14-04/
Installing Emacs keybindings on Linux doesn’t work until you change keyboard dispatch from code to keycode
use "keyboard.dispatch": "keyCode" in your settings and restart VS Code.
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Keybinding-Issues
chrbrn@u1b863e0b90e952:~/Projects/ycmd$ git clone https://github.com/Valloric/ycmd.git cd ycmd git submodule update --init --recursize python3 build.py
wget -O - https://apt.llvm.org/llvm-snapshot.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add - sudo apt-add-repository "deb http://apt.llvm.org/xenial/ llvm-toolchain-xenial-6.0 main" sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -y clang-6.0
update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/clang++ clang++ /usr/bin/clang++-3.8 100 update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/clang++ clang++ /usr/bin/clang++-6.0 1000 update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/clang++ clang /usr/bin/clang-3.8 100 update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/clang clang /usr/bin/clang-3.8 100 update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/clang clang /usr/bin/clang-6.0 1000 update-alternatives --config clang update-alternatives --config clang++