Dell XPS 13 9350 Late 2015

vtrac · 2016-08-15 19:31:19

kn wrote:

vtrac wrote:
kn wrote:
Does anybody know if any of these USB-C hubs are working?
- Anker Premium USB-C
https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Delivery-S … +c+premium
-Minix Neo C
https://www.amazon.com/MINIX-NEO-USB-C- … inix+neo+c
What I am specifically interested in is the USB-C charging (through the hub), and simulatenous HDMI and USB 3.0 phone charging.
I will soon receive the Inergie PowerGear USB-C charger: https://www.amazon.com/Innergie-PowerGe … B0188PAD00 which I hope to use to power the XPS through either of those hubs.
UPDATE: Direct charging through XPS's USB-C with Innergie PowerGear 45W works just fine!
I bought one of these Kensington SD4600P devices, which seems to work fine as a USB-hub, HDMI at 4k@30hz, and charging: : http://amzn.to/2bbOAUt Unfortunately, I wanted the DisplayPort over USB-C so I can get 4k@60hz, but that locks up on the Dell 9350.
Is the 4k@30Hz a limitation of XPS or the hubs themselves? I have also found another USB-C hub (Ackey) which delivers 4k only at 30hz..

4k@30Hz is a limitation of HDMI. You need a DisplayPort output to get 4k@60Hz, which is why I bought the more expensive Kensington device. It works fine in Windows, but it freezes under Linux at 4k@60hz. There's a bug in the intel Xorg driver or something like that.

Pet0r · 2016-08-16 10:01:07

bakteria wrote:

I just finished updating and input is not working at all for me when trying to decrypt. External keyboard doesn't work either. You said you preloaded the i8042 module. Could you be specify how you did that?

Personally I added "atkbd i8042" to MODULES in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf after my other modules, and then rebuilt with sudo mkinitcpio -p linux-mainline

That fixed it for me.

frank604 wrote:

Sounds like the intel branch, which had a bug since mid June 2016 on cursor artifacts and trailing, has been merged into the mainline branch from 4.8 RCs. File an upstream bug report to mainline. I got no traction in the intel branch bug report. Or your cursor issues are separate than what I experienced.

I found your bug report and I was going to respond with my dmesg output, I've been using 4.7 for the last few days due to the issue but when I added the debug flag and rebooted into 4.8, I can't seem to reproduce the problem any more, at least not immediately. There's no static cursor or cursor lag/artifacts as of yet. I can still definitely reproduce the issue with the display not being properly recognised on boot though. I'm using the USB-C -> DisplayPort as my main monitor, and the login screen displays fine (although only on the laptop screen), after login, the attached monitor keeps displaying the login background, while the laptop screen starts to show my desktop, but all windows are offset onto the other "ghost monitor" and it's not possible to move the windows to the laptop screen only. Unplugging the USB-C adapter, waiting for the laptop screen to become primary, and then plugging it back in seems to fix it until next reboot.

EDIT: And just as I say that, cursor issue is back.

Last edited by Pet0r (2016-08-16 10:10:56)

projectgus · 2016-08-17 02:31:28

OdinEidolon wrote:

Just wanted to say that after this I did not get any freeze anymore. This may be a coincidence tho, I will report again in a few days.

One more data point from me, had a crash on resume today (first in >2 weeks) with 4.7 & pm_async=0. PM_TRACE tells me "acpi LNXCPU:06: hash matches". Which suggests the ACPI cpufreq support was last to resume before the crash, I think...

OdinEidolon · 2016-08-17 09:09:46

projectgus wrote:

OdinEidolon wrote:
Just wanted to say that after this I did not get any freeze anymore. This may be a coincidence tho, I will report again in a few days.
One more data point from me, had a crash on resume today (first in >2 weeks) with 4.7 & pm_async=0. PM_TRACE tells me "acpi LNXCPU:06: hash matches". Which suggests the ACPI cpufreq support was last to resume before the crash, I think...

which points to a problem in which component? I have no idea

OdinEidolon · 2016-08-21 13:11:08

Did anybody find/test anything like the BIOS toggles I reported here for the XPS13?
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 6#p1647596

coconutoil · 2016-08-21 16:23:38

Anyone noticed any issues after recent upgrades, with regards to sound/audio?
Suddenly my headset is garbled and distorted as hell.
I've managed to tweak it a little and putting in alsamixer, the Headphone Gain entry back to 22 seems to make it *better*, but it still distorts around 50% volume or higher. (from https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/De … 13_(2016)).
I tried various Headset Gains and 22 is the best but it's not back to normal.
Unplugging and using built-in speakers works just fine.

I haven't had to adjust the Headset Gain since I first installed Arch back in May/June. I've never had this issue, with all the upgrades I've had until now.
Anyone else seeing this?

[edit]
I've rebooted into a mainline 4.7 kernel (after Arch was on 4.7.1), same thing. But It's been a week or two since I restarted the laptop so it's hard to tell what upgrades might have done this...

Last edited by coconutoil (2016-08-21 16:32:14)

3rwww1 · 2016-08-21 16:41:39

Hi there,

Does anyone know if the Dell DA-200 adapter HDMI output now works with latest mainline (4.8rc1) or default (4.7-1) kernels ? When I last tried (4.6 up to 4.7rc6), HDMI output was stuck at very low resolutions (as someone previously reported here - in my case the limit was 800x600 instead of 1920x1200) and hot-plugging the adapter resulted in a complete system freeze.

Last edited by 3rwww1 (2016-08-21 16:43:22)

cabellicar123 · 2016-08-21 16:52:57

I'm running 4.7.1. HDMI through the DA-200 seems to still not work at high res, though hotplugging does not cause a crash. Using the other adapters posted here still work perfectly at high res.

zetxx · 2016-08-22 14:07:00

coconutoil wrote:

Anyone noticed any issues after recent upgrades, with regards to sound/audio?
Suddenly my headset is garbled and distorted as hell.
I've managed to tweak it a little and putting in alsamixer, the Headphone Gain entry back to 22 seems to make it *better*, but it still distorts around 50% volume or higher. (from https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/De … 13_(2016)).
I tried various Headset Gains and 22 is the best but it's not back to normal.
Unplugging and using built-in speakers works just fine.
I haven't had to adjust the Headset Gain since I first installed Arch back in May/June. I've never had this issue, with all the upgrades I've had until now.
Anyone else seeing this?
[edit]
I've rebooted into a mainline 4.7 kernel (after Arch was on 4.7.1), same thing. But It's been a week or two since I restarted the laptop so it's hard to tell what upgrades might have done this...

do you have any usb device attached to it ?

bkuri · 2016-08-22 15:35:29

zetxx wrote:

do you have any usb device attached to it ?

I have the exact same problem and no usb devices attached. Also no amount of tweaking helps in my case. I get sound issues every time I use the touchpad or whenever things update on screen (even a blinking caret generates sound issues). It sure seems that the latest kernel update made it worse.

zetxx · 2016-08-22 19:09:16

bkuri wrote:

zetxx wrote:
do you have any usb device attached to it ?
I have the exact same problem and no usb devices attached. Also no amount of tweaking helps in my case. I get sound issues every time I use the touchpad or whenever things update on screen (even a blinking caret generates sound issues). It sure seems that the latest kernel update made it worse.

humm strange, i had this issue issue only when usb device are attached

ml · 2016-08-24 08:56:59

Has anyone tried to get the microphone of a headset working? (Pulseaudio)

I've only tried the solution over at the wiki but it didn't help me.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/De … Microphone

At the moment I just want to know if it a headset microphone generally works with this device and Linux, so it would be nice if anyone could confirm it.

Also, is anyone using the system with F2FS?
Are there any issues or arguments against using it? (on this device specifically)

vtrac · 2016-08-24 12:02:46

ml wrote:

Has anyone tried to get the microphone of a headset working? (Pulseaudio)
I've only tried the solution over at the wiki but it didn't help me.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/De … Microphone
At the moment I just want to know if it a headset microphone generally works with this device and Linux, so it would be nice if anyone could confirm it.

Works fine for me (I don't think I've ever had a problem with a mic, headset or built-in).

zetxx · 2016-08-24 14:37:41

ml wrote:

Has anyone tried to get the microphone of a headset working? (Pulseaudio)
I've only tried the solution over at the wiki but it didn't help me.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/De … Microphone
At the moment I just want to know if it a headset microphone generally works with this device and Linux, so it would be nice if anyone could confirm it.
Also, is anyone using the system with F2FS?
Are there any issues or arguments against using it? (on this device specifically)

no problem here, but not using pulseaudio

ml · 2016-08-24 15:13:13

vtrac wrote:

Works fine for me (I don't think I've ever had a problem with a mic, headset or built-in).

zetxx wrote:

no problem here, but not using pulseaudio

Alrighty, guess it is time to start debugging when I get home.
Thanks for the replies.

@zetxx: ALSA?

zetxx · 2016-08-24 15:15:29

ml wrote:

vtrac wrote:
Works fine for me (I don't think I've ever had a problem with a mic, headset or built-in).
zetxx wrote:
no problem here, but not using pulseaudio
Alrighty, guess it is time to start debugging when I get home.
Thanks for the replies.
@zetxx: ALSA?

yep

vtrac · 2016-08-26 02:29:05

Sigh. New kernel updated to 4.7.2-1 and now I can't get X to run for more than 5 seconds without freezing. After the reboot from upgrading to 4.7.2-1, GDM would freeze as soon as I clicked my name. I've tried reverting back to 4.7.1-1, but inexplicably, it also is freezing at the same point. Other things I've tried: 1) uninstalling gdm completely and starting gnome-shell with just startx. This starts gnome-shell normally, but will freeze 4-5 seconds in. 2) installing and uninstalling the xf86-video-intel driver 3) setting random kernel parameters that I shouldn't need with kernel 4.4+.

I've never had so many instability issues with any machine on linux. I'm about to throw in the towel with this laptop.

zetxx · 2016-08-26 08:54:25

vtrac wrote:

Sigh. New kernel updated to 4.7.2-1 and now I can't get X to run for more than 5 seconds without freezing. After the reboot from upgrading to 4.7.2-1, GDM would freeze as soon as I clicked my name. I've tried reverting back to 4.7.1-1, but inexplicably, it also is freezing at the same point. Other things I've tried: 1) uninstalling gdm completely and starting gnome-shell with just startx. This starts gnome-shell normally, but will freeze 4-5 seconds in. 2) installing and uninstalling the xf86-video-intel driver 3) setting random kernel parameters that I shouldn't need with kernel 4.4+.
I've never had so many instability issues with any machine on linux. I'm about to throw in the towel with this laptop.

kernel params ?

ksim · 2016-08-26 09:02:01

vtrac wrote:

Sigh. New kernel updated to 4.7.2-1 and now I can't get X to run for more than 5 seconds without freezing.

use i915.enable_psr=0

seismic · 2016-08-29 09:21:49

Looks like some good drm-intel fixes have landed in mainline. Just installed 4.8 rc3 and finally getting 4k@60Hz on my external display!

$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3840 x 2160, maximum 8192 x 8192
XWAYLAND0 connected 3840x2160+0+0 710mm x 400mm
   3840x2160     59.98*+

My setup is 9350 (i7-6560U/Iris 540/QHD+) and Acer B326HK display connected with this USB-C to DP cable:

https://www.startech.com/AV/usb-c-video … DP2DPMM1MB

OdinEidolon · 2016-08-29 09:26:04

I upgraded to networkmanager 1.4 and cannot connect to the WiFi anymore. Anyone getting the same with the Broadcom card?

frank604 · 2016-08-29 10:01:50

OdinEidolon wrote:

I upgraded to networkmanager 1.4 and cannot connect to the WiFi anymore. Anyone getting the same with the Broadcom card?

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770456
downgrade or try the fix in .conf
or use something else

diraimondo · 2016-08-29 14:44:00

There is light at the end of the "NVMe power management" tunnel...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page= … vings-APST

Did any brave guy test these patches?

aromanos · 2016-08-29 18:17:35

ksim wrote:

vtrac wrote:
Sigh. New kernel updated to 4.7.2-1 and now I can't get X to run for more than 5 seconds without freezing.
use i915.enable_psr=0

Same issue here but the parameter did nothing to me. Fortunately rolling back to 4.7.1-1 did it for now.

frank604 · 2016-08-29 19:58:10

diraimondo wrote:

There is light at the end of the "NVMe power management" tunnel...
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page= … vings-APST
Did any brave guy test these patches?

I'll try to patch this against Intel drm nightly tonight. See how my power goes. Not sure how to test power consumption. I'll have to google fu how to see power state of nvme.

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