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#101 2017-04-06 12:55:38

eanderalx
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Re: Dell XPS 13 Late 2016 9360 Kaby Lake 7th Gen

As Info for everyone who has problems with the Dell DA200 HDMI

I've tested an USB-C to HDMI cable. It worked with full HD.

AUKEY CB-C54 6ft USB 3.1 USB-C to HDMI Cable

https://www.amazon.com/AUKEY-Supports-U … B01NAUQLXW


"Man kann ein Problem nicht mit den gleichen Denkstrukturen lösen, die zu seiner Entstehung beigetragen haben." (Albert Einstein)
"A problem cannot be solve at the same level of thinking at which it was created." (Albert Einstein)

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#102 2017-04-06 13:12:44

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Re: Dell XPS 13 Late 2016 9360 Kaby Lake 7th Gen

blahhumbug wrote:

That is normal thermal throttling.  I believe it is triggered around 90c.   I see it every now and then when I kick off some heavy loads.  thermald appears a bit sluggish to respond to rapid rises in temperature at time, and so the hardware throttling mechanism will kick in.

With just firefox and nothing intensive running it doesn't seem normal. I usually have the browser + IDE + a couple of terminals running and it doesn't get nearly as high.

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#103 2017-04-06 13:15:45

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Re: Dell XPS 13 Late 2016 9360 Kaby Lake 7th Gen

You should install a temperature monitor and take a look at how hot your CPUs are getting.   I use a KDE thermal monitor extension in my systray to always display the current temperature of both cores.  If you're not using thermald, you should also install it and see if that helps prevent overheating.

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#104 2017-04-07 02:10:26

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Re: Dell XPS 13 Late 2016 9360 Kaby Lake 7th Gen

Just hit my first case of suspend failing with 4.1.8.   Lid was open, and sleep timer kicked in, but power light never went off and was forced to power cycle.   Still cannot ever reproduce this manually for debugging.

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#105 2017-04-07 11:28:34

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Re: Dell XPS 13 Late 2016 9360 Kaby Lake 7th Gen

Hitting similar issues with my XPS 13 on 4.10.8 - this is Fedora 25, but this is the only thread I can seem to find discussing these problems.

For the MCE errors: they're a bit misleading, there's a thread on LKML about it, it's just normal hardware throttling down but it gets reported as an error.  Seems like they're working on fixing it: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/1/6/441

For the not-coming-back-from-blank-screen error, I see this constantly, have to reboot to get things working again.  After 10-20 minutes with the lid open and screen goes black, I see this in my logs:

    Apr 07 05:59:01 ancient.bitbin.de kernel: [drm:i915_gem_idle_work_handler [i915]] *ERROR* Timeout waiting for engines to idle


Seems related, but not much on Google about that error.  The machine is otherwise up, so if you enable SSH you should be able to get in and reboot more gracefully.

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#106 2017-04-09 01:03:47

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Re: Dell XPS 13 Late 2016 9360 Kaby Lake 7th Gen

These are also sold with ubuntu preinstalled, so the hardware works pretty well? Is there anything to worry about when getting one to put arch on, or is it all good? Does the wifi card work with linux-libre, or does it need proprietary firmware?

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#107 2017-04-09 09:22:49

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Re: Dell XPS 13 Late 2016 9360 Kaby Lake 7th Gen

Everything works with Arch except for the fingerprint reader (no special treatment required). Make sure you update your bios to the latest version or you might have trouble booting in AHCI mode.

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#108 2017-04-11 14:40:37

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Re: Dell XPS 13 Late 2016 9360 Kaby Lake 7th Gen

stbenjam wrote:

Seems related, but not much on Google about that error.  The machine is otherwise up, so if you enable SSH you should be able to get in and reboot more gracefully.

This is different than the suspend/resume problem I have.   Whenever the system fails to suspend (power light does not shut off), I am completely unable to SSH in.  For my case, if the system is still on, at least the WIFI is successfully being disabled, so a cold reset is required.

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#109 2017-04-13 10:49:01

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Re: Dell XPS 13 Late 2016 9360 Kaby Lake 7th Gen

I want to buy Dell XPS 13 9360 with 16GB RAM and FHD screen (non-touch 1920x1080, not the QHD+). I've thoroughly searched the web and chatted with sales reps, but this combo seems unavailable. As RAM is soldered into the board, neither RAM nor screen are feasible to upgrade later. Has anyone had a similar dilemma? What was your decision? Thanks.

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#110 2017-04-13 11:20:06

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Re: Dell XPS 13 Late 2016 9360 Kaby Lake 7th Gen

latgarf wrote:

I want to buy Dell XPS 13 9360 with 16GB RAM and FHD screen (non-touch 1920x1080, not the QHD+). I've thoroughly searched the web and chatted with sales reps, but this combo seems unavailable. As RAM is soldered into the board, neither RAM nor screen are feasible to upgrade later. Has anyone had a similar dilemma? What was your decision? Thanks.

I bought a XPS13 Developer Edition (Ubuntu) with i7-7560U, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD and FHD Non-Touch recently (read, last week, delivered yesterday), so there are models like this available, at least through Dell Germany. Dell Order Code / E-Value Code for mine is cnx93618.


My System: Dell XPS 13 | i7-7560U | 16GB RAM | 512GB SSD | FHD Screen | Arch Linux
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#111 2017-04-13 13:36:40

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Re: Dell XPS 13 Late 2016 9360 Kaby Lake 7th Gen

seiichiro0185 wrote:
latgarf wrote:

I want to buy Dell XPS 13 9360 with 16GB RAM and FHD screen (non-touch 1920x1080, not the QHD+). I've thoroughly searched the web and chatted with sales reps, but this combo seems unavailable. As RAM is soldered into the board, neither RAM nor screen are feasible to upgrade later. Has anyone had a similar dilemma? What was your decision? Thanks.

I bought a XPS13 Developer Edition (Ubuntu) with i7-7560U, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD and FHD Non-Touch recently (read, last week, delivered yesterday), so there are models like this available, at least through Dell Germany. Dell Order Code / E-Value Code for mine is cnx93618.

Thank you very much, Seiichiro!  The Dell code that you mentioned became a deal maker for me. It seems that cnx93618 is only available in Europe. I checked UK, Germany, France, Denmark - they all offer it. But not Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand or USA. UK Dell support told me that they ship only to UK. I was able to order it with help from my european friend.

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#112 2017-04-14 17:11:51

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Re: Dell XPS 13 Late 2016 9360 Kaby Lake 7th Gen

As you may know from my last post I recently got a XPS 13. So now that everything is configured and running as I want it, I tried to get power usage down to get the most from the battery.

I use TLP with standard settings, and all works well so far, meaning I get it down to around 3.25W of idle power draw (WIFI on and connected, BT on, Display off, Idling in X/i3 with only a Terminal open). To get this down to the absolute minimum, tried the linux-nvme kernel from AUR to make use of the SSDs power saving features. To my surprise, there is no change in power usage with the linux-nvme Kernel. So maybe someone has seen this and has an idea what might be missing. I use the SSD that came with the System, which is a Toshiba according to smartctl output:

Model Number:                       THNSN5512GPUK NVMe TOSHIBA 512GB

So first measurements with the standard Arch Kernel (4.10.9):
powerstat:

Running for 480.0 seconds (48 samples at 10.0 second intervals).
Power measurements will start in 0 seconds time.

  Time    User  Nice   Sys  Idle    IO  Run Ctxt/s  IRQ/s Fork Exec Exit  Watts
14:16:03   0.6   0.0   0.2  99.2   0.0    1    405    112   10    7    9   4.38 
14:16:13   0.4   0.0   0.1  99.5   0.0    1    302     95    6    6    6   4.63 
14:16:23   0.3   0.0   0.2  99.5   0.0    1    279     80    6    6    6   4.58 
14:16:33   0.3   0.0   0.2  99.6   0.0    1    307     97    7    6    6   2.80 
14:16:43   0.3   0.0   0.1  99.6   0.0    1    296     96    6    6    7   3.40 
14:16:53   0.3   0.0   0.2  99.6   0.0    1    266     82    6    6    6   3.03 
14:17:03   0.3   0.0   0.1  99.6   0.0    1    281     91    6    6    7   3.85 
14:17:13   0.4   0.0   0.3  99.2   0.0    1   5249    154    8    6    6   4.20 
14:17:23   0.4   0.0   0.2  99.4   0.0    1    338     97    7    6    6   2.94 
14:17:33   0.3   0.0   0.2  99.4   0.1    1   4814    104    7    6    7   3.37 
14:17:43   0.4   0.0   0.1  99.5   0.0    1    294    105    8    6    7   3.04 
14:17:53   0.3   0.0   0.3  99.4   0.0    1   5233    107    6    6    7   3.16 
14:18:03   0.3   0.0   0.1  99.6   0.0    1    281     86    6    6    8   5.37 
14:18:13   0.4   0.0   0.1  99.5   0.0    1    290    100    6    6    7   2.95 
14:18:23   0.3   0.0   0.1  99.6   0.0    1    279     82    6    6    7   3.04 
14:18:33   0.3   0.0   0.1  99.6   0.0    1    277     86    6    6    6   3.23 
14:18:43   0.3   0.0   0.2  99.5   0.0    2    287     94    6    6    6   3.51 
14:18:53   0.3   0.0   0.1  99.6   0.0    1    273     81    6    6    6   2.96 
14:19:03   0.2   0.0   0.2  99.6   0.0    1    281     88    7    6    6   3.19 
14:19:13   0.3   0.0   0.1  99.5   0.0    1    310    131    6    6    6   3.19 
14:19:23   0.4   0.0   0.1  99.5   0.0    1    335    106    7    6    6   2.92 
14:19:33   0.3   0.0   0.2  99.5   0.0    1    289     85    6    6    8   2.91 
14:19:43   0.4   0.0   0.2  99.5   0.0    1    295     94    6    6    6   3.72 
14:19:53   0.3   0.0   0.1  99.6   0.0    1    271     79    6    6    6   2.97 
14:20:03   0.3   0.0   0.3  99.4   0.0    1   5334    113    8    6    6   3.26 
14:20:13   0.3   0.0   0.2  99.5   0.0    1    289     96    6    6    6   3.09 
14:20:23   0.3   0.0   0.2  99.6   0.0    1    275     77    6    6    6   2.84 
14:20:33   0.4   0.0   0.1  99.5   0.0    1    280     85    6    6    7   3.21 
14:20:43   0.4   0.0   0.1  99.6   0.0    1    294     93    6    6    6   3.03 
14:20:53   0.3   0.0   0.2  99.5   0.0    1   4903     80    6    6    6   3.18 
14:21:03   0.3   0.0   0.2  99.5   0.0    1    286     87    7    6    7   3.07 
14:21:13   0.4   0.0   0.2  99.4   0.0    1    322    125    6    6    6   3.31 
14:21:23   0.4   0.0   0.2  99.5   0.0    1    352    106    7    6    6   3.08 
14:21:33   0.3   0.0   0.1  99.6   0.0    1    296     92    7    6    7   2.93 
14:21:43   0.3   0.0   0.2  99.5   0.0    1    283     94    6    6    6   3.16 
14:21:53   0.3   0.0   0.1  99.6   0.0    1    268     75    6    6    6   3.03 
14:22:03   0.3   0.0   0.1  99.5   0.0    1    282     84    6    6    7   2.88 
14:22:13   0.3   0.0   0.2  99.5   0.0    1    290    100    6    6    6   2.98 
14:22:23   0.3   0.0   0.1  99.6   0.0    1    271     78    6    6    7   3.03 
14:22:33   0.3   0.0   0.1  99.6   0.0    1    275     82    6    6    6   2.98 
14:22:43   0.4   0.0   0.2  99.4   0.0    1    480    184   11    8    8   2.92 
14:22:53   0.3   0.0   0.1  99.6   0.0    1    276     77    6    6    6   2.82 
14:23:03   0.3   0.0   0.2  99.5   0.0    1    297     89    6    6    7   2.99 
14:23:13   0.4   0.0   0.2  99.4   0.0    1    309    114    6    6    7   3.01 
14:23:23   0.4   0.0   0.2  99.5   0.0    1    348     98    8    6    7   3.23 
14:23:33   0.4   0.0   0.2  99.4   0.0    1    282     89    6    6    7   2.89 
14:23:43   0.3   0.0   0.1  99.6   0.0    1    293     92    6    6    6   3.11 
14:23:53   0.2   0.0   0.2  99.6   0.0    1    276     77    6    6    6   3.01 
-------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ---- ------ ------ ---- ---- ---- ------ 
 Average   0.3   0.0   0.1  99.5   0.0  1.0  799.8   96.2  6.5  6.1  6.5   3.26 
  StdDev   0.1   0.0   0.1   0.1   0.0  0.1 1470.6   19.9  1.0  0.3  0.7   0.53 
-------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ---- ------ ------ ---- ---- ---- ------ 
 Minimum   0.2   0.0   0.1  99.2   0.0  1.0  266.4   74.8  6.0  6.0  6.0   2.80 
 Maximum   0.6   0.0   0.3  99.6   0.1  2.0 5334.1  184.3 11.0  8.0  9.0   5.37 
-------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ---- ------ ------ ---- ---- ---- ------ 
Summary:
System:   3.26 Watts on average with standard deviation 0.53

nvme get-feature -f 0x0c -H /dev/nvme0:

get-feature:0xc (Autonomous Power State Transition), Current value:00000000
	Autonomous Power State Transition Enable (APSTE): Disabled
	Auto PST Entries	.................
	Entry[ 0]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 50 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 3
	.................
	Entry[ 1]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 50 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 3
	.................
	Entry[ 2]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 50 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 3
	.................
	Entry[ 3]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 6000 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 4
	.................
	Entry[ 4]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 4
	.................
	Entry[ 5]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[ 6]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[ 7]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[ 8]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[ 9]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[10]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[11]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[12]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[13]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[14]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[15]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[16]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[17]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[18]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[19]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[20]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[21]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[22]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[23]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[24]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[25]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[26]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[27]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[28]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[29]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[30]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[31]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................

And the same for linux-nvme (4.10.10):

powerstat:

Running for 480.0 seconds (48 samples at 10.0 second intervals).
Power measurements will start in 0 seconds time.

  Time    User  Nice   Sys  Idle    IO  Run Ctxt/s  IRQ/s Fork Exec Exit  Watts
14:35:25   0.6   0.0   0.2  99.2   0.0    1    378    145    9    7    9   4.85 
14:35:35   0.4   0.0   0.2  99.5   0.0    1    310    101    7    6    7   3.03 
14:35:45   0.4   0.0   0.2  99.4   0.0    1    268    107    7    6    7   3.17 
14:35:55   0.3   0.0   0.1  99.6   0.0    1    222     77    6    6    6   3.22 
14:36:05   0.3   0.0   0.1  99.6   0.0    1    229     83    6    6    6   2.99 
14:36:15   0.4   0.0   0.1  99.5   0.0    1    247     96    6    6    7   3.68 
14:36:25   0.3   0.0   0.1  99.6   0.0    1    233     84    6    6    6   2.90 
14:36:35   0.4   0.0   0.1  99.5   0.0    1    224     82    6    6    6   3.19 
14:36:45   0.4   0.0   0.2  99.5   0.0    1    245     98    6    6    6   3.12 
14:36:55   0.3   0.0   0.2  99.5   0.0    1    225     78    6    6    6   3.34 
14:37:05   0.3   0.0   0.1  99.6   0.0    1    225     78    6    6    6   3.16 
14:37:15   0.4   0.0   0.2  99.4   0.0    1    252     95    7    6    6   3.30 
14:37:25   0.3   0.0   0.2  99.5   0.0    2    266    126    6    6    6   3.27 
14:37:35   0.5   0.0   0.2  99.3   0.0    1    285     94    8    6    7   3.08 
14:37:45   0.5   0.0   0.2  99.3   0.1    1    272    114    7    6    8   3.24 
14:37:55   0.3   0.0   0.2  99.5   0.0    1    244     96    7    6    6   3.22 
14:38:05   0.2   0.0   0.1  99.6   0.0    1    235     82    6    6    8   3.27 
14:38:15   0.4   0.0   0.1  99.5   0.0    1    243     92    6    6    8   3.42 
14:38:25   0.2   0.0   0.1  99.7   0.0    1    230     82    6    6    6   3.27 
14:38:35   0.3   0.0   0.1  99.6   0.0    1    221     76    6    6    6   3.30 
14:38:45   0.4   0.0   0.2  99.4   0.0    1    245     93    7    6    6   3.22 
14:38:55   0.3   0.0   0.1  99.6   0.0    1    225     82    6    6    6   3.18 
14:39:05   0.3   0.0   0.1  99.6   0.0    1    223     78    6    6    6   3.28 
14:39:15   0.4   0.0   0.2  99.4   0.0    1    252     97    7    6    8   3.54 
14:39:25   0.3   0.0   0.1  99.6   0.0    1    271    131    6    6    6   3.25 
14:39:35   0.4   0.0   0.1  99.5   0.0    1    282     92    7    6    6   3.56 
14:39:45   0.4   0.0   0.3  99.3   0.0    1   5140    124    9    6    7   3.17 
14:39:55   0.3   0.0   0.1  99.5   0.0    1    235     84    6    6    6   2.97 
14:40:05   0.3   0.0   0.1  99.7   0.0    1    235     84    6    6    6   3.28 
14:40:15   0.4   0.0   0.1  99.5   0.0    1    253     92    7    6    6   3.00 
14:40:25   0.3   0.0   0.2  99.6   0.0    1    231     80    6    6    6   2.98 
14:40:35   0.3   0.0   0.1  99.6   0.0    1    225     77    6    6    6   3.09 
14:40:45   0.4   0.0   0.1  99.5   0.0    1    248     95    6    6    8   3.41 
14:40:55   0.3   0.0   0.1  99.6   0.0    1    231     83    6    6    6   3.12 
14:41:05   0.3   0.0   0.1  99.5   0.0    1    227     78    6    6    6   2.83 
14:41:15   0.4   0.0   0.1  99.5   0.0    1    247     92    6    6    6   3.23 
14:41:25   0.3   0.0   0.2  99.6   0.0    1    254    117    6    6    6   3.45 
14:41:35   0.3   0.0   0.1  99.5   0.0    1    279     89    7    6    6   3.04 
14:41:45   0.5   0.0   0.2  99.4   0.0    1    255    100    7    6    7   3.52 
14:41:55   0.3   0.0   0.1  99.6   0.0    1    230     81    6    6    6   3.15 
14:42:05   0.3   0.0   0.1  99.6   0.0    1    228     79    6    6    6   2.96 
14:42:15   0.3   0.0   0.2  99.5   0.0    1    246     92    6    6    7   3.39 
14:42:25   0.3   0.0   0.1  99.6   0.0    1    232     82    6    6    6   2.90 
14:42:35   0.3   0.0   0.1  99.6   0.0    1    232     80    6    6    6   3.10 
14:42:45   0.5   0.0   0.2  99.3   0.1    1    439    184   10    8    8   3.49 
14:42:55   0.2   0.0   0.2  99.6   0.0    1    239     87    7    6    6   3.15 
14:43:05   0.3   0.0   0.1  99.6   0.0    1    233     84    7    6    7   3.03 
14:43:15   0.4   0.0   0.3  99.4   0.0    1   5143    120    6    6    7   3.50 
-------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ---- ------ ------ ---- ---- ---- ------ 
 Average   0.3   0.0   0.1  99.5   0.0  1.0  454.8   94.7  6.5  6.1  6.5   3.25 
  StdDev   0.1   0.0   0.0   0.1   0.0  0.1  977.9   20.4  0.9  0.3  0.8   0.30 
-------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ---- ------ ------ ---- ---- ---- ------ 
 Minimum   0.2   0.0   0.1  99.2   0.0  1.0  220.8   75.6  6.0  6.0  6.0   2.83 
 Maximum   0.6   0.0   0.3  99.7   0.1  2.0 5142.8  184.4 10.0  8.0  9.0   4.85 
-------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ---- ------ ------ ---- ---- ---- ------ 
Summary:
System:   3.25 Watts on average with standard deviation 0.30

nvme get-feature -f 0x0c -H /dev/nvme0:

get-feature:0xc (Autonomous Power State Transition), Current value:0x000001
	Autonomous Power State Transition Enable (APSTE): Enabled
	Auto PST Entries	.................
	Entry[ 0]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[ 1]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[ 2]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[ 3]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[ 4]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[ 5]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[ 6]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[ 7]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[ 8]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[ 9]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[10]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[11]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[12]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[13]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[14]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[15]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[16]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[17]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[18]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[19]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[20]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[21]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[22]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[23]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[24]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[25]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[26]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[27]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[28]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[29]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[30]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................
	Entry[31]   
	.................
	Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 0 ms
	Idle Transition Power State   (ITPS): 0
	.................

I noticed a strange thing in the nvme-cli output: For the standard Arch Kernel it says that APST is disabled, but the first few entries in the PST Listing show values. With linux-nvme it says Enabled for APST, but the PST Listing Entries are all 0. I suspect that this has something to do with not getting any improvements for the power consumption readings.

So if anyone has an idea what might be wrong here or what I could try to further debug this issue, please let me know. Otherwise I'll wait for 4.11 (which includes the APST stuff as far as I read), and see if it changes anything.

Last edited by seiichiro0185 (2017-04-14 17:12:50)


My System: Dell XPS 13 | i7-7560U | 16GB RAM | 512GB SSD | FHD Screen | Arch Linux
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#113 2017-04-14 22:38:09

gonzlobo
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Re: Dell XPS 13 Late 2016 9360 Kaby Lake 7th Gen

Great luck installing Arch the first time on my new 9360 (usually takes me a few times smile. Thrilled with how well the touchpad works. It will be perfect if I can get the 3 finger drag working. It is possible, right?

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#114 2017-04-15 11:05:17

antcc
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Re: Dell XPS 13 Late 2016 9360 Kaby Lake 7th Gen

gonzlobo wrote:

Great luck installing Arch the first time on my new 9360 (usually takes me a few times smile. Thrilled with how well the touchpad works. It will be perfect if I can get the 3 finger drag working. It is possible, right?

I'm not sure what you mean by 3 finger drag, but you can have a look at libinput-gestures in the AUR.

Last edited by antcc (2017-04-15 11:05:55)


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#115 2017-04-16 16:16:04

gonzlobo
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Re: Dell XPS 13 Late 2016 9360 Kaby Lake 7th Gen

On my old laptop, I could enable something in the Accessibility menu and enable 3 fingers to drag windows. Haven't quite figured it out, but I'll look at libinput-gestures. Thanks.

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#116 2017-04-16 22:35:50

pinophyta
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Re: Dell XPS 13 Late 2016 9360 Kaby Lake 7th Gen

Did anyone succesfully upgrade BIOS to 1.3.2 that was released last month? My boot kept freezing and I tried a bunch of things including chrooting + mkinitcpio'ing, fsck'ing the drives with no luck. The issue seemed to be with loading kernel modules. I tried commenting out most things from my kernel params but that didn't help either. I reverted back to 1.2.3.

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#117 2017-04-17 06:16:23

seiichiro0185
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Re: Dell XPS 13 Late 2016 9360 Kaby Lake 7th Gen

pinophyta wrote:

Did anyone succesfully upgrade BIOS to 1.3.2 that was released last month? My boot kept freezing and I tried a bunch of things including chrooting + mkinitcpio'ing, fsck'ing the drives with no luck. The issue seemed to be with loading kernel modules. I tried commenting out most things from my kernel params but that didn't help either. I reverted back to 1.2.3.

My XPS 13 was delivered with BIOS 1.3.2, and boots just fine (UEFI-Mode, systemd-boot as bootloader). Do you get any error messages when it freezes?


My System: Dell XPS 13 | i7-7560U | 16GB RAM | 512GB SSD | FHD Screen | Arch Linux
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#118 2017-04-18 00:57:41

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Re: Dell XPS 13 Late 2016 9360 Kaby Lake 7th Gen

pinophyta wrote:

Did anyone succesfully upgrade BIOS to 1.3.2 that was released last month? My boot kept freezing and I tried a bunch of things including chrooting + mkinitcpio'ing, fsck'ing the drives with no luck. The issue seemed to be with loading kernel modules. I tried commenting out most things from my kernel params but that didn't help either. I reverted back to 1.2.3.

I was also able to upgrade to 1.3.2 without any issues.   Since the 9360 does not have a constant hardware set, what hard-drive and network card do you have?   My system has the Atheros Killer WIFI card and the 512GB Toshiba THNSN5512GPUK NVME SSD.

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#119 2017-04-23 13:33:14

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Re: Dell XPS 13 Late 2016 9360 Kaby Lake 7th Gen

There were no error messages during the boot it would just freeze.
@blahhumbug I also have Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 + THNSN5256GPUK. There were some messages in the log but I couldn't pinpoint the issue.
Here's my system log(pass  is arch): https://defuse.ca/b/9WcxDm1E  if anyone would like to take a look.
I also tried to use fwupdmgr but looks like it doesn't work with this model yet.

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#120 2017-04-23 13:52:16

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Re: Dell XPS 13 Late 2016 9360 Kaby Lake 7th Gen

pinophyta wrote:

There were no error messages during the boot it would just freeze.
@blahhumbug I also have Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 + THNSN5256GPUK. There were some messages in the log but I couldn't pinpoint the issue.
Here's my system log(pass  is arch): https://defuse.ca/b/9WcxDm1E  if anyone would like to take a look.
I also tried to use fwupdmgr but looks like it doesn't work with this model yet.

If you haven't already, I would try booting with a lot of your kernel options removed.   Probably everything except modeset.  I use some, but not all of those options, specifically the acpi, power_well, and enable_psr=1.  Although I do use enable_psr=2.

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#121 2017-04-23 16:52:07

pinophyta
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Re: Dell XPS 13 Late 2016 9360 Kaby Lake 7th Gen

Actually did try removing i915 + acpi and a few other combinations but no luck.

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#122 2017-05-07 05:09:13

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Re: Dell XPS 13 Late 2016 9360 Kaby Lake 7th Gen

I just purchased a XPS 13 9360, and am delighted with it, especially at how easy it was to install Arch - I was really surprised at how well everything worked, right out of the box. And the battery life...I've never owned a laptop that I could reliably get 6+ hours of battery life out of, so on that front, I'm doing backflips.

One relatively small, but annoying issue. When I use a terminal, the fonts are...I'm not quite sure how to describe it. It's like the kerning is off, or something. Some letters are too far away from others, some are too close, some are even overlapping very slightly. It's fine everywhere except in the terminal - browsers and other applications are fine, and when I'm at a tty, before issuing startx, it's absolutely fine there as well.

I don't have any reason to suggest that this is an XPS issue, so I'm probably in the wrong subforum, but I've had this same setup on other laptops without issue, most recently a macbook pro. I'm using i3 with gnome-terminal.

I've looked at the font configuration docs in the wiki, but some experimentation did virtually nothing to change what I'm seeing. I tried rxvt-unicode, as well as the patched version of rxvt that's supposed to deal with the font issues, and with them the fonts were spaced out very wide.

So, I'm perfectly happy digging in and doing my own research, but I'm really not sure where to start, at this point. If anyone could offer any suggestions, it would be greatly appreciated.

Here's what I have in my .Xresources - pretty much just the basics from the docs:

 
   xrdb -q                                                  
    Xft.antialias:	true
    Xft.autohint:	0
    Xft.hinting:	hintslight
    Xft.lcdfilter:	lcddefault
    Xft.rgba:	rgb

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#123 2017-05-09 20:34:54

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Re: Dell XPS 13 Late 2016 9360 Kaby Lake 7th Gen

pwkpete wrote:

Are you all booting in UEFI mode or legacy? I went to legacy, not sure what the additional value is of an insecure UEFI boot? This is my first UEFI machine...

I just got a 9360 qhd and don't hear any coil noise but when I install the WD-15 dock and connect it to my external monitor there is a lot of noise coming in over HDMI?! I really need to turn the volume down on that. When I have it plugged into my other laptop (I didn't plug directly into the XPS13 yet, I just got it last night) it's crystal clear which seems odd, as if it an issue with the dock.


Sorry to dredge up an old post, but this is the only time I saw the dock mentioned. I'm curious as to whether anybody else is using the WD-15, and especially whether it's working out OK for them. I have that dock, and while it works fine initially, after undocking and re-docking a few times the machine either becomes unresponsive or outright kernel panics.

This machine has been amazing for me otherwise - no instability, the battery life is superb without even tweaking the module options as per the wiki.

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#124 2017-05-09 21:00:50

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Re: Dell XPS 13 Late 2016 9360 Kaby Lake 7th Gen

JeremyT wrote:
pwkpete wrote:

Are you all booting in UEFI mode or legacy? I went to legacy, not sure what the additional value is of an insecure UEFI boot? This is my first UEFI machine...

I just got a 9360 qhd and don't hear any coil noise but when I install the WD-15 dock and connect it to my external monitor there is a lot of noise coming in over HDMI?! I really need to turn the volume down on that. When I have it plugged into my other laptop (I didn't plug directly into the XPS13 yet, I just got it last night) it's crystal clear which seems odd, as if it an issue with the dock.


Sorry to dredge up an old post, but this is the only time I saw the dock mentioned. I'm curious as to whether anybody else is using the WD-15, and especially whether it's working out OK for them. I have that dock, and while it works fine initially, after undocking and re-docking a few times the machine either becomes unresponsive or outright kernel panics.

This machine has been amazing for me otherwise - no instability, the battery life is superb without even tweaking the module options as per the wiki.

Is this what you get? https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100727

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#125 2017-05-11 14:46:42

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Re: Dell XPS 13 Late 2016 9360 Kaby Lake 7th Gen


Your description of the failure sounds identical! I don't see those precise error messages in my logs, but I'm not positive I'm actually getting everything. One consistent element I do see in the logs is the following:

kernel: [drm:drm_atomic_helper_commit_cleanup_done [drm_kms_helper]] *ERROR* [CRTC:31:pipe A] flip_done timed out

There's another thread where a similar error message is discussed, but I'm not sure it's the same underlying problem - I tried their suggested fix of the SVIDEO kernel parameter and it didn't help.

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