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| # perform a fresh install of Ubuntu 17.10 | |
| # upgrade the kernel to v4.13.10 | |
| mkdir ~/kernel-v4.13.10 | |
| cd ~/kernel-v4.13.10 | |
| wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.13.10/linux-headers-4.13.10-041310_4.13.10-041310.201710270531_all.deb | |
| wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.13.10/linux-headers-4.13.10-041310-generic_4.13.10-041310.201710270531_amd64.deb | |
| wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.13.10/linux-image-4.13.10-041310-generic_4.13.10-041310.201710270531_amd64.deb | |
| sudo dpkg -i *.deb | |
| # configure required kernel parameter (https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/bbswitch/issues/148) | |
| sudo nano /etc/default/grub | |
| # change this parameter to: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_rev_override=1" | |
| # rebuild the bootloader | |
| sudo update-grub2 | |
| # install and configure TLP and PowerTOP | |
| sudo apt-get install tlp tlp-rdw powertop | |
| sudo tlp start | |
| # PowerTOP should be reporting a battery discharge rate of ~8-12W | |
| sudo powertop --auto-tune # auto-tune parameter will configure some recommended power-saving tweaks | |
| # install Nvidia 384.90 drivers | |
| sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa | |
| sudo apt update | |
| sudo apt-get install nvidia-384=384.90-0ubuntu3.17.10.1 | |
| sudo apt-mark hold nvidia-384 # stop this package being auto-updated during package resolution | |
| # test that the nvidia drivers are working: nvidia-smi should output some GPU stats | |
| nvidia-smi | |
| # PowerTOP should now be reporting a battery discharge rate of ~15-20W | |
| sudo powertop | |
| # install Nvidia Prime: so we can disable the dedicated GPU when we don't want it | |
| sudo apt-get install nvidia-prime | |
| sudo prime-select intel | |
| # REBOOT: when we boot back in, GPU should now be disabled | |
| sudo powertop # PowerTOP should be reporting ~8-12W dischargehe | |
| nvidia-smi # nvidia-smi should complain about missing drivers | |
| sudo prime-select nvidia # switch back to dedicated graphics | |
| sudo powertop # PowerTOP should start reporting ~15-20W discharge | |
| nvidia-smi # nvidia-smi should report GPU info | |
| sudo prime-select intel # the GOTCHA: prime-select intel doesn't re-disable the graphics card | |
| sudo powertop # PowerTOP still reporting ~15-20W discharge | |
| nvidia-smi # nvidia-smi correctly complaining about missing drivers | |
If this can help, after struggling to get Ubuntu working on Dell of a friend we put together those tips with the ones for the Atheros wifi cards and made a working out-of-the-box Ubuntu ISO for Dell XPS 15 9560!
You can find everything here:
https://github.com/stockmind/dell-xps-9560-ubuntu-respin
In the repo you can find all the scripts to respin any ISO supported by Isorespin script
@stockmind I assume the finger print does not work, right?
I am rather noob regarding Ubuntu configuring. I have installed Ubuntu 16.04 and experienced a few things (wifi drops..) but it seems all ok now. No lag or freeze etc.. pretty satisfied.
Yet Powertop reports 17W and the fans sometimes activates (as I do no games or stuff)
I am running Nvidia 384.111.
I would like a better performance and have disabled a few things in the bios (no double threads on cores etc). I do only coding, web browsing etc .. So my question is : what is the best driver to chose in my situation : Nvidia or X ? Should I try the above on my current install ? ... also I have tried to enhance battery longevity in Nvidia-settings by selecting "run on windows motherboard GPU for better longevity" (or so) and it wreaked everything : couldnt sart Ubuntu, Name of Graphic card changed from GTX 1050 to HD Graphics 630 (Kabylake GT2), and the unknown device additionnal driver has disappeard...
I got everything working again (still name of GPU is HD Graphics 630) but I am sure it is all messy inside and this 17W does not look great ...
(also does Nvidia driver ticked = running on card and X driver ticked = running on motherboard ? it's a stupid question but as I don't need performance it could do the trick)
Ok I have switched to X and removed and purged everything nvidia. Now powertop is between 12 and 14which is better. I guess I won't be able to do better as I use X now. (Also eventhough I have removed Nvidia, the nvidia driver is still offered as an option in additional drivers...)
Some things to consider:
- Gnome is laggy, especially with multiple monitors and performance degrades over time
- The killer wifi never gave me any trouble, works out of the box on 4.13.0-37-generic / 17.10
- I've given up for now on mixed dpi wayland due again to gnome being so laggy and a lot of important apps being only Xwayland, which again is laggy by itself - Xorg 1.20 comes with a lot of improvements on Xwayland so might give it another go on 18.10. I'm simply setting the laptop's monitor to 1080p when a non 4k external monitor is connected which is fine, although a waste considering how sharp the screen is
Ubuntu 18.04 bionic update
Took the plunge yesterday and did a do-release-upgrade -d. I have everything working fine again, but it was a bit of a PITA as everything around the discrete GPU was a pain to set up. It auto-updated to nvidia-390.
Upon restart, your DE will fail to start probably. Reboot again and on the boot menu choose recovery mode then choose with network. Make sure nvidia-prime is installed then do prime-select intel, then reboot.
You should be able to boot to your DE now, but the discrete GPU will be on and guzzling power even if you already had bbswitch installed. You need to sudo apt autoremove --purge bbswitch-dkms "bumblebee*" then sudo apt install bbswitch-dkms` and check the GPU is off after installation via
cat /proc/acpi/bbswitch
0000:01:00.0 OFF
I haven't been able to finish setting up bumblebee yet.
Also upgraded to 18.04, with a load of trouble. Mousepad was not working right, this needed to be fixed by installing the xserver-xorg-input-synaptics driver and a gnome-tweaks setting to get the right button to work again.
Graphics was hell, I removed everything done before and reinstalled nvidia-390. Then there was a lot of trouble disabling the nouveau driver from loading - it loaded despite all of the blacklist entries in modprobe.conf.d. I ended up by adding blacklist.nouveau=1 to the kernel command line in grub.
After this I reinstalled bbswitch and bumblebee but that hangs before the login screen comes. It turns out that anything (like bumblebee) that switches off the NVIDIA will cause this hang.
Oddly enough, if you remove bumblebee and keep bbswitch you can logon, but the nvidia is ON after. But now you CAN switch it off using the cat OFF >/proc/acpi/bbswitch command.
No idea yet on how to do this better... Watching this space ;)
I also upgraded to 18.04 on a XPS 9560 and having trouble with nouveau.
I can switch between nvidia and intel with nvidia-settings followed by a reboot.
The issue I have is that closing the lid won't suspend the laptop.
I thought it might be nouveau related so I added blacklist.nouveau=1 to the kernel parameters and blacklist nouveau to modprobe.d/blacklist.conf but it is still being loaded when running with Intel graphics.
cat /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.17.0-041700-generic root=UUID=c9f1f95a-2c7a-4f84-8b02-e7b9b4675b42 ro quiet splash nouveau.runpm=0 blacklist.nouveau=1 vt.handoff=1
lsmod | grep nouveau
nouveau 1724416 2
ttm 110592 1 nouveau
mxm_wmi 16384 1 nouveau
wmi 24576 7 intel_wmi_thunderbolt,dell_wmi,wmi_bmof,dell_smbios,dell_wmi_descriptor,mxm_wmi,nouveau
i2c_algo_bit 16384 2 i915,nouveau
drm_kms_helper 172032 2 i915,nouveau
drm 405504 21 drm_kms_helper,i915,ttm,nouveau
video 45056 4 dell_wmi,dell_laptop,i915,nouveau
tail /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
#Joep
blacklist vga16fb
blacklist nouveau
blacklist rivafb
blacklist nvidiafb
blacklist rivatv
When running with the nvidia card, nouveau is not loaded.
Does anyone have a clue about why nouveau is still loaded?
And do you also have the suspend issue?
I've been setting up an XPS 9570 with Ubuntu 18.04, thanks everyone for putting this together - many tips above have been quite helpful!
Have installed nvidia proprietary drivers, and switched the computer to use Intel graphics. Was having problems with the laptop not going to sleep using Intel graphics, also had problems with crashes. Those two issues were resolved by adding nouveau.nomodeset=0 to kernel boot parameters - even though I wasn't intentionally using nouveau!
It turned out that nouveau was being loaded by the nvidia-fallback service, disabling it via #systemctl disable nvidia-fallback allowed me to remove the nouveau kernel boot arguments without re-introducing any of the above issues.
My fans seem to constantly be spinning up and down, even under minimal load in a cool room. It's not entirely consistent, which makes me think it might be related to some measured temperature - fans will be on for a second or so, then off for ~10 seconds. It seems wasteful and is distracting. Any ideas on how to prevent this?
@ianrrees Upgrade your BIOS. I am on 1.5.0 and the fans speeds seem more reasonable. I have not tested thoroughly but it's an improvement over 1.3.0 (And the BIOS changelog claims to "solve power management issues in Ubuntu" )
i'll post my entire notes, which is also a reference to this here doc, but contains more after this guide:
These are my notes for disabling the nvidia gpu and enabling the integrating intel GPU on my processor, on Linux. This has brought down my dell xps 15 power consumption from 25-30 w to 11-12.
Improving battery life from 3 hours to 9-10 hours.
I had success in disabling the gpu itself, but it would not properly boot into linux and even when i did get it working it wouldn't let me adjust the backlight.
I have now solved all these problems and everything works fine.
System Dell XPS 15 9560 9 cell battery
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=18.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=bionic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS"
Linux version 4.15.0-39-generic (buildd@lgw01-amd64-054) (gcc version 7.3.0 (Ubuntu 7.3.0-16ubuntu3)) #42-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 23 15:48:01 UTC 2018
I followed mostly this guide, but had to add some tweaks https://gist.github.com/tomwwright/f88e2ddb344cf99f299935e1312da880
Guide is as follows
# perform a fresh install of Ubuntu 17.10
# upgrade the kernel to v4.13.10
mkdir ~/kernel-v4.13.10
cd ~/kernel-v4.13.10
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.13.10/linux-headers-4.13.10-041310_4.13.10-041310.201710270531_all.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.13.10/linux-headers-4.13.10-041310-generic_4.13.10-041310.201710270531_amd64.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.13.10/linux-image-4.13.10-041310-generic_4.13.10-041310.201710270531_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
# configure required kernel parameter (https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/bbswitch/issues/148)
sudo nano /etc/default/grub
# change this parameter to: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_rev_override=1"
# rebuild the bootloader
sudo update-grub2
# install and configure TLP and PowerTOP
sudo apt-get install tlp tlp-rdw powertop
sudo tlp start
# PowerTOP should be reporting a battery discharge rate of ~8-12W
sudo powertop --auto-tune # auto-tune parameter will configure some recommended power-saving tweaks
# install Nvidia 384.90 drivers
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-384=384.90-0ubuntu3.17.10.1
sudo apt-mark hold nvidia-384 # stop this package being auto-updated during package resolution
# test that the nvidia drivers are working: nvidia-smi should output some GPU stats
nvidia-smi
# PowerTOP should now be reporting a battery discharge rate of ~15-20W
sudo powertop
# install Nvidia Prime: so we can disable the dedicated GPU when we don't want it
sudo apt-get install nvidia-prime
sudo prime-select intel
# REBOOT: when we boot back in, GPU should now be disabled
sudo powertop # PowerTOP should be reporting ~8-12W dischargehe
nvidia-smi # nvidia-smi should complain about missing drivers
sudo prime-select nvidia # switch back to dedicated graphics
sudo powertop # PowerTOP should start reporting ~15-20W discharge
nvidia-smi # nvidia-smi should report GPU info
sudo prime-select intel # the GOTCHA: prime-select intel doesn't re-disable the graphics card
sudo powertop # PowerTOP still reporting ~15-20W discharge
nvidia-smi # nvidia-smi correctly complaining about missing drivers
After following the guide
1)
powertop
turn nvidia on/off
sudo nano /lib/systemd/system/gpuoff.service
to turn off the gpu power in
/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:01\:00.0/power/control
has the same effect as disabling the gpu in powertop
sudo nano /lib/systemd/system/gpuoff.service
sudo systemctl start gpuoff
sudo systemctl enable gpuoff
#prime-select nvidia
prime-select intel
prime-select query
2)
sudo vim /etc/default/grub
#grub now that it works:
GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="acpi_backlight=vendor" # < boots
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
3) < this was a major fix for getting it to boot properly without nomodeset
editting /etc/X11/xorg.conf or so and setting intel & inactive nvidia in the first section solved the problem
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "layout"
Screen 0 "intel"
Inactive "nvidia"
EndSection
What would need to be altered for this to work with Xubuntu?
@Catbodi I've installed
nvidia-390but I almost never use it. Intel works fine for me, even with multiple external displays. I think its good to have the option to switch, just in case.Using Intel or
nvidia-390with Firefox, I wasn't able to reproduce the problems shown on the videos you mentioned.Here's the
sudo Xorg -versionoutput:With my current setup, a restart is needed to switch between cards.
About the Killer card... I don't even know how to blame, Dell or Killer...
I have a lot of mixed results with this card: on Windows, any wi-fi network works great. On Linux, my home network works great, at work I have the opposed result. Can't find the pattern to success.
I really need to buy a Intel 8265 - the only problem is that they don't ship directly to my country (just like the XPS itself) and a company to redirect the package is a little expensive. I'll probably pay like US$ 100+ in total for the card.