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#1651 2014-09-13 17:48:46

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

I am running Arch on my HP 4520s.
Everything works like a charm.

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#1652 2014-09-13 18:59:20

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

Thanks Andrew,
I would have posted earlier but it took me a little bit to figure out that the question on registration wasn't correct.  Anyway.  I can help test this out too. Thanks for working on it.

Jason

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#1653 2014-09-14 15:07:38

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

I'm using Arch Linux on a Dell Vostro 3560 in dual boot with Win 8, works quite nice ( and a very solid machine imho)
There are just 2 Things:

BCM43142

The WL driver is really a pain in the a** as it stops working after every kernel update (even the DKMS version has this problem)
and when you realise that you had a kernel update you are most times anywhere but near the next wired connection smile

AMD/Intel Switching

Not as much a problem anymore as the Kernel can put the Radeon card to sleep automatically, and you just have to set the
offload provider sink and export DRI_PRIME=1 anytime you want some shiny graphics smile

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#1654 2014-09-15 05:06:09

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

Ugh, Finally got my laptop back from repairs the other day (took 1 month! What the heck?!) and am in the process of setting it up from scratch...

Sorry to jump in -- Is there any consensus on the "best working setup" right now? Is it still the CK kernel (does bumblebee still not work on non-CK kernels?). Should I use the default NVIDIA drivers?

It sounds like some of you got laptop suspend to work with pm-tools... We were having trouble where the "lid" button was not reporting any changes after the first close, has that been fixed (or are you all on the 2014 version?)? I'd really like to have suspend working, but one problem I was having was that if any key was pressed it would resume, and if you put the laptop in your backpack sometimes the screen would flex and "push" a key (I think? hopefully it wasn't just random resumes) and wake it up. So, I guess some config is necessary so that it only responds to power button or lid opening/closing.

Much appreciation again andrew for continuing to work on the trackpad thing -- I'll be ready to do some testing again too (if needed) once I'm back up and running. I wonder is there any difference between the 2013 and 2014 razer blades? I have the 2013 one, and it sounds like several of the others in here have the 2014 one. Is anyone testing the HID patch with the 2013 version?

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#1655 2014-09-15 06:17:40

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

Here are my install notes.

It isn't perfect but it should give you lots of hints smile

https://github.com/binarypie/archpie/wi … r-Blade-14


I wasn't able to get my lid to work correctly as it would get stuck thinking it was still closed half the time so i made a hotkey to suspend and disabled lid checking.

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#1656 2014-09-15 11:22:22

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

Ooh very nice, thanks binarypie!

A couple questions (mostly curiosity):

1) Why did you choose btrfs (is this common nowadays...?). Is there no disadvantage (advantage over ext4) with the SSD?
2) Are you using the compatibility/BIOS mode or the UEFI mode? (your initial few steps involving differed from the ones I remember ...although more likely I Just forgot haha)

BTW: What kind of battery life do you get? I was regularly getting 8-10 hours with powertop (2013 model), I vageuly remember some reviews saying the 2014 model got a bit less but those were all under windows I think. I assume the bigger/better screen will take some more power, but surely there's other updates to offset that...?

R

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#1657 2014-09-15 11:24:43

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

Anyone have luck speeding up/optimizing the boot speed? I was able to get a working desktop from cold boot in like 2 or 3 seconds on previous SSD laptops (under linux mint), but I was struggling to find kernel settings etc. for arch (seems to be stuck around a minimum of 10 seconds). Not like that kills me or anything aha smile

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#1658 2014-09-16 10:35:16

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OK, I at least got things working in a desktop environment...that was way too much work.

binarypie -- your guide helped but it was some work figuring out the nastiness of UEFI stuff to get booted in the first place. It kept hanging at initramfs the first few installs (I thought it was corruption).

Still haven't touched the touchpad/keyboard/suspend/powermanagement, but I have had no luck with bumblebee/nvidia. I'm using the dkms stuff / beta stuff, and it's throwing the same RmInitAdapter error as before. Anyone overcome this (I assume you must have since you seem to have it working). Any help appreciated.

Cannot access secondary GPU - error [XORG] (EE) systemd-logind: failed to get session: PID 1195 does not belong to any known session.

In dmesg it has the RmInitAdapter failed! stuff (from before as rgomes will recognize haha)
And nvidia_frontend_open: minor 0, module-.() failed, error -5

Ugh.

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#1659 2014-09-16 12:42:02

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

For Btrfs, you can enable compress before pacstrap so the base system will also be compressed.

mount -o compress=lzo /dev/sda2 /mnt

The ssd mount option is unnecessary as udev should automatically detect the SSD.

dmesg | grep BTRFS
[    2.703492] BTRFS: detected SSD devices, enabling SSD mode

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#1660 2014-09-17 06:35:32

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OK, got everything to work except NVIDIA/optirun. Mostly following binarypie's notes, but with some modifications since it seems there are some differences between the 2013 and 2014 editions of the RB14. Any suggestions regarding the NVIDIA side of things would be much appreciated (does anyone with the 2013 RB14 have optimus working with the vanilla kernel?)

Notes:
1) on RB14 2013 edition, touchpad didn't work when I tried to specify which device-id it was. In other words, if I add the line    MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/by-id/usb-Razer_Razer_Blade-event-mouse"  to 50-synaptics.conf, there is no synaptics driver loaded (it does not do the binding). However, /dev/input/by-id/usb-Razer_Razer_Blade-event-mouse *does* exist...weird.
2) I had to do the gzip hid-rmi.ko and cp it to .../modules/thislinux/blah/blah/hid as suggested by Ran. I also had to add the line     Option "Clickpad" "false" to 50-synaptics.conf.


I can't get the GPU to work (on the normal kernel) no matter what I do. Switching off the GPU with bumblebee/bbswitch *does* work. I have tried both the (default) 340 nvidia drivers, as well as the beta 343 drivers as in binarypie's notes. I have tried all the modifications suggested on bumblebee's wiki for the problems, including setting the rcu_timeout thing to 1 and 2. I have only tried on the vanilla 3.16.2 kernel (I have not tried ck yet). I have tried changing all sorts of config files, changed driver=nvidia in /etc/bumblebee, etc. The errors are looking like this (same under both default and beta nvidia drivers):

Bumblebee output:

[riveale@rv-rb14 ~]$ lspci | grep 3D
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK106M [GeForce GTX 765M] (rev ff)
[riveale@rv-rb14 ~]$ optirun glxgears
[  451.442516] [ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: [XORG] (EE) systemd-logind: failed to get session: PID 1035 does not belong to any known session

Corresponding dmesg:

[  451.442547] [ERROR]Aborting because fallback start is disabled.
[riveale@rv-rb14 ~]$ dmesg

<<< SNIP >>>>

[    6.995076] random: nonblocking pool is initialized
[  417.829472] bbswitch: enabling discrete graphics
[  418.464572] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[  418.464576] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
[  418.471236] [drm] Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 20130102 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 1
[  418.471240] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  340.32  Tue Aug  5 20:58:26 PDT 2014
[  418.632094] vgaarb: this pci device is not a vga device
[  418.632478] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: irq 49 for MSI/MSI-X
[  418.634785] ACPI Warning: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20140424/nsarguments-95)
[  418.634827] ACPI Warning: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20140424/nsarguments-95)
[  418.634850] ACPI Warning: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20140424/nsarguments-95)
[  418.634873] ACPI Warning: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20140424/nsarguments-95)
[  418.634895] ACPI Warning: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20140424/nsarguments-95)
[  418.634917] ACPI Warning: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20140424/nsarguments-95)
[  418.634951] ACPI Warning: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20140424/nsarguments-95)
[  418.634973] ACPI Warning: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20140424/nsarguments-95)
[  425.903697] ACPI Error: Field [TMPB] at 1081344 exceeds Buffer [ROM1] size 262144 (bits) (20140424/dsopcode-236)
[  425.903703] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._ROM] (Node ffff880227072050), AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT (20140424/psparse-536)
[  444.186698] [sched_delayed] sched: RT throttling activated
[  451.437729] ACPI Warning: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20140424/nsarguments-95)
[  451.440421] NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x24:0x38:1170)
[  451.440428] NVRM: rm_init_adapter failed for device bearing minor number 0
[  451.440448] NVRM: nvidia_frontend_open: minor 0, module->open() failed, error -5
[riveale@rv-rb14 ~]$ 

Checking that it was actually turned on...and wasn't turned back off, and that restarting bumblebee will turn it off again properly...

[riveale@rv-rb14 ~]$ lspci | grep 3D
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK106M [GeForce GTX 765M] (rev a1)
[riveale@rv-rb14 ~]$ 

[riveale@rv-rb14 ~]$ sudo systemctl restart bumblebeed
[sudo] password for riveale: 
[riveale@rv-rb14 ~]$ lspci | grep 3D
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK106M [GeForce GTX 765M] (rev ff)
[riveale@rv-rb14 ~]$ 

Corresponding dmesg:

[riveale@rv-rb14 ~]$ dmesg

<<<< SNIP >>>>

[  633.730523] [drm] Module unloaded
[  633.734324] bbswitch: disabling discrete graphics
[  633.734342] ACPI Warning: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20140424/nsarguments-95)
[  633.746633] pci 0000:01:00.0: Refused to change power state, currently in D0
[riveale@rv-rb14 ~]$ 

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#1661 2014-09-17 07:30:25

riveale
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Re: Laptops which run Arch

Well, I tried linux-ck as well, with rcu_idle_gp_delay=2, and I am getting exactly the same problem. So, it doesn't even work on linux-ck anymore? Or am I missing some obvious setting? I'm stumped...

[riveale@rv-rb14 hid-rmi]$ uname -a
Linux rv-rb14 3.16.2-1-ck #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Sep 6 08:10:38 EDT 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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#1662 2014-09-17 10:55:33

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

I'm beginning to worry that it might be because I'm in UEFI mode. Previously I was always in CSM mode using GRUB directly as the bootloader and bootmanager. Now I'm doing UEFI into GRUB.

So, I changed everything back to CSM in the bios and tried but no dice. Do I need to do it from install time? I guess I'm going to have to wipe everyone yet again and try...

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#1663 2014-09-19 22:45:39

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

MrLemux wrote:

I'm using Arch Linux on a Dell Vostro 3560 in dual boot with Win 8, works quite nice ( and a very solid machine imho)
There are just 2 Things:

BCM43142

The WL driver is really a pain in the a** as it stops working after every kernel update (even the DKMS version has this problem)
and when you realise that you had a kernel update you are most times anywhere but near the next wired connection smile

My Lenovo Yoga 2 11 has the same card. I've found that uninstalling the broadcom-wl package and rebuilding it has served me well. The PKGBUILD doesn't need to re-download anything, so you shouldn't need an internet connection to fix your wireless.

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#1664 2014-09-19 23:33:02

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

Packard Bell EasyNote ME69BMP, Intel Celeron N2806 (Baytrail)

It's a netbook. Yes, they still exist smile. Not many of them, but they're there. Which is good, because it was time to retire my trusty old Aspire One A110.

If you google about this machine, you'll mostly find info on its predecessor, with a N2805 - that the UEFI is 32bit and that USB ports don't work. The USB problem has since been fixed in both mainline and LTS kernels. And regarding UEFI, while it's 32bit on the N2805, it's 64bit on the N2806!!

Pressing backlight buttons does nothing out-of-the-box, except this appearing in dmesg: "acer_wmi: Unknown function number - 4 - 100". However, X does recognize the buttons as XF86MonBrightness[Up|Down] and xorg-xbacklight works, so I just set up appropriate keybindings.

The rest works: wifi is provided by ath9k, bluetooth by btusb, an inserted SD card appears to the system as a generic usb mass storage device, audio is there (Realtek ALC282 codec), graphics work great (OpenGL 3.3, woohoo!), there's hardware video decoding via VAAPI.

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#1665 2014-09-22 19:28:21

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

Andrew, any luck with the razer blade touchpad patch?

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#1666 2014-09-26 16:23:11

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

I haven't had any problems with my nice Lenovo Thinkpad T440 (Intel graphics). Of course, I didn't get the fingerprint reader (who needs a fingerprint reader?), and I heard they aren't without problems. The laptop works beautifully, though. With TLP and a CPU limit in battery mode, it can stay so cool that the fan doesn't need to go on even at 100% CPU. Suspend works perfectly. The TouchPad©® works a hundred times better (out of the box) in Arch than in Ubuntu, and a million times better than in Windows 8 (which is pre-installed).

Surprisingly, the two USB 3 ports are usually enough for me, and the lack of caps lock LED is a feature, since I use the caps key as ctrl. The keyboard is a *dream*, just wonderful to type on, and the ssd + arch combination gives me mindblowing boot speeds. Killer feature: the dot of the `i' on the lid lights up.

I would certainly recommend this to anyone looking for a high-end laptop, but do look at the T440s, which doesn't actually cost that much more, and is substantially lighter.

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#1667 2014-09-27 09:17:43

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

I'm using Arch on my Acer Aspire One 722-C62kk. It works very well for me.

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#1668 2014-09-29 20:11:56

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

Anyone with a Lenovo z500 (or z5.. series) who are having any trouble with the latest kernal update:

For backlight, ignore the wiki. Doing what the wiki says will cause bumblebeed to stop working. Add "acpi_backlight=vendor" to your kernal params and for bumblebee use bbswitch-dkms.

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#1669 2014-10-02 18:35:50

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I have a new set of patches which I think will get the touchpad working. The first one does a more extensive check to figure out if the HID device is actually one of our touchpads. I just submitted this patch upstream so we will have to see what they think of it.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ik2400d76saur … patch?dl=0

The second patch contains the changes specific for the Razer Blade 14". I would like someone to test it before I send it upstream to make sure everything works correctly.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/2x5b4qhck48bl … patch?dl=0

I think these patches should apply cleanly to the 3.17-rc* versions of the kernel source. Both patches will need to be applied to get things working correctly.

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#1670 2014-10-04 17:49:44

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

Recently purchased a Dell Inspiron 3531 with Windows 8.1, very inexpensive.  Works pretty well so far (UEFI non-secure dual boot Arch x86_64 with Windows 8.1).  Just a few points:

  • After installing grub, the laptop kept booting into Windows.  The solution was to use efibootmgr to delete the original boot order and again to create a new boot order with arch_grub at the top of the list.

  • After a reboot, the laptop often hangs on "loading initial ramdisk", as reported here by some other archers.  Note that for this laptop, this is only on soft reboots - poweroff and restart is fine.

  • No ethernet port (I didn't check the spec too closely roll ) but wifi works fine (but see below)

  • Occasionally wifi software rfkill gets activated, it might be one of the function keys (not sure yet, it's my wife's laptop), so install the rfkill package so that you can unblock it again.

  • hdmi doesn't transmit sound to the tv

Battery seems to last for ages.  I've got the Mate desktop running on it. All in all, very good value for money.

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#1671 2014-10-08 04:42:10

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

Hi Andrew
I applied the patches to 3.17-rc7 which applied ok with 32 line offsets.
On booting into the new kernel we have some progress!! The touchpad itself funtions well with both taps for button clicks and two finger scrolling I haven't tried much else at this point. The right physical button works but the left one doesn't do anything although a two finger tap on the touchpad works as a left click.

Filtered dmesg

[root@test richard]# dmesg |grep USB
[    1.807914] ACPI: bus type USB registered
[    1.808435] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
[    1.808833] ehci-pci 0000:00:1a.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[    1.820020] ehci-pci 0000:00:1a.0: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
[    1.820175] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[    1.820390] ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
[    1.833374] ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.0: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
[    1.833524] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[    1.833776] xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
[    1.834069] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[    1.836054] xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
[    1.836174] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[    2.126713] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-pci
[    2.250760] hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found
[    2.410107] usb 3-5: new full-speed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd
[    2.743391] usb 3-13: new full-speed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd
[    2.896879] usbhid: USB HID core driver
[    3.076711] usb 3-14: new high-speed USB device number 4 using xhci_hcd
[    3.378393] hid-generic 0003:1532:011D.0002: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.11 Keyboard [Razer Razer Blade] on usb-0000:00:14.0-5/input1
[    3.378547] hid-generic 0003:1532:011D.0003: input,hidraw1: USB HID v1.11 Keyboard [Razer Razer Blade] on usb-0000:00:14.0-5/input2
[    3.378690] hid-generic 0003:1532:011D.0004: input,hidraw2: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [Razer Razer Blade] on usb-0000:00:14.0-5/input3
[    3.395439] USB Video Class driver (1.1.1)
[    3.480122] usb 2-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-pci
[    3.604252] hub 2-1:1.0: USB hub found
[    4.437638] hid-rmi 0003:1532:011D.0001: input,hiddev0,hidraw3: USB HID v1.11 Pointer [Razer Razer Blade] on usb-0000:00:14.0-5/input0
[  587.340097] usb 3-3: new full-speed USB device number 5 using xhci_hcd
[  587.517565] hid-generic 0003:1532:001C.0005: input,hidraw4: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [Razer  Razer Abyssus] on usb-0000:00:14.0-3/input0
[root@test richard]# dmesg |grep 1532:011D
[    3.378324] input: Razer Razer Blade as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-5/3-5:1.1/0003:1532:011D.0002/input/input15
[    3.378393] hid-generic 0003:1532:011D.0002: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.11 Keyboard [Razer Razer Blade] on usb-0000:00:14.0-5/input1
[    3.378491] input: Razer Razer Blade as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-5/3-5:1.2/0003:1532:011D.0003/input/input16
[    3.378547] hid-generic 0003:1532:011D.0003: input,hidraw1: USB HID v1.11 Keyboard [Razer Razer Blade] on usb-0000:00:14.0-5/input2
[    3.378632] input: Razer Razer Blade as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-5/3-5:1.3/0003:1532:011D.0004/input/input17
[    3.378690] hid-generic 0003:1532:011D.0004: input,hidraw2: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [Razer Razer Blade] on usb-0000:00:14.0-5/input3
[    3.379118] hid-rmi 0003:1532:011D.0001: Scanning PDT...
[    4.380105] hid-rmi 0003:1532:011D.0001: rmi_read_block: timeout elapsed
[    4.383205] hid-rmi 0003:1532:011D.0001: Found F34 on page 0x00
[    4.386205] hid-rmi 0003:1532:011D.0001: Found F01 on page 0x00
[    4.389203] hid-rmi 0003:1532:011D.0001: Found F11 on page 0x00
[    4.396205] hid-rmi 0003:1532:011D.0001: Found F54 on page 0x01
[    4.403207] hid-rmi 0003:1532:011D.0001: Found F55 on page 0x02
[    4.410211] hid-rmi 0003:1532:011D.0001: Found F30 on page 0x03
[    4.417214] hid-rmi 0003:1532:011D.0001: rmi_scan_pdt: Done with PDT scan.
[    4.437302] input: Razer Razer Blade as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-5/3-5:1.0/0003:1532:011D.0001/input/input14
[    4.437638] hid-rmi 0003:1532:011D.0001: input,hiddev0,hidraw3: USB HID v1.11 Pointer [Razer Razer Blade] on usb-0000:00:14.0-5/input0

Let me know if you want me to try anything and thanks again for your work on this.

EDIT: please. note I plugged in a usb mouse to make copy paste of dmesg easier ( Razer Abyssus)

Richard

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#1672 2014-10-10 20:31:16

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

Hi Richard,

Thanks for testing. The left button might be getting reported in a format I am not expecting. Could you grab a log while pressing the left button using hid-recorder? The source code for hid-recorder can be found here.
https://github.com/bentiss/hid-replay.git

Then run this:
sudo hid-recorder /dev/hidraw0 |tee hidraw0.log

I got some resistance on the patch I submitted upstream. Hopefully, we can figure out another way of figuring out which device to bind to and will be able to hid the 3.19 kernel release cycle.

Andrew

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#1673 2014-10-11 01:35:55

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

Thanks so much for working on this.
I hope they do accept your patch after all the kinks are worked out. Even so, what you are doing is a great service and I'll be glad for whatever patch you are able to supply.

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#1674 2014-10-11 03:16:32

Richjn
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Re: Laptops which run Arch

Hi Andrew
Compiled hid-recorder and ran as requested, didn't seem to output anything when I clicked the left mouse button but I have posted the output on my ISP's server because its wide format would't work well here.

http://members.iinet.net.au/~rj/hidraw0.log

Let me know if you need anything else.

Richard

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#1675 2014-10-13 17:35:47

r00tr4t
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Registered: 2013-01-16
Posts: 100

Re: Laptops which run Arch

I purchased an ACER TMP645-M-54208G25tkk Core i5 4200U with W7.

Formated the disks and installed Arch and awesome wm on it with gumiboot. So far no problems except  that some media keys don't work but i added the functions in my rc.lua.

Haven't tested the:

  • fingerprint reader.

  • SD card slot.

  • Hdmi port.

  • and haven't done any gaming on it.

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