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This guide outlines how to replace the fans in the Razer Blade Stealth 2018. The fans keep the laptop cool and prevent the other components from overheating. A fan replacement may be necessary if the. Issue to boot kali linux 2018.4 from USB live in Razer Blade 2016 If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed.
To no surprise, the Stealth with its Kabylake Core i7 CPU was leading the board in the CPU tests...
And a quick look at the battery power usage during those laptop benchmarks.
That's it for the Linux data I have to share today from the Razer Blade Stealth. I hope you found these numbers interesting. even if you were not interested in a Blade Stealth upgrade but even if you've been curious how the Windows 10 vs. Linux power usage is looking, how various Linux distributions are comparing on the power front, how the different out-of-the-box boot times are across popular distributions, and of course the assortment of other benchmarks found in this article.
The Razer Blade Stealth has the potential to be a daily laptop/ultrabook for Linux users. The downsides though is the potential battery/EC matter if you happen to receive an affected model, the web camera running into some glitches, and Razer not yet offering their customization software on Linux. Keep in mind they are at least not yet officially supporting Linux on their products.
It will be very interesting to see over the months ahead with regards to what decisions they have reached for supporting Linux. Seeing a Linux-friendly laptop from a major OEM would certainly be very exciting with right now the only viable option being the Dell XPS 13 if wanting a Linux pre-loaded laptop in the US from a major manufacturer. But at least when checking this week, the Linux-loaded XPS 13 is no longer available from Dell.com in the US. While there are the options from System76, ZaReason, Purism, and others, they are often more costly due to not producing at-scale, in many instances re-branded of Clevo or other white boxes, and tend to not be as expedited in shipping latest-generation designs. As well, not generally as speedy shipping or as easy availability as from a tier-one OEM.
Here's to hopefully an interesting 2018 for Linux laptops! Thanks again to Razer for providing access to the Blade Stealth for Linux testing.
Thanks to the test automation of the Phoronix Test Suite, you can easily see how your own Linux laptop(s) compare performance wise to the results in this article. Such as if wanting to compare the cross-distribution numbers on the Razer Blade Stealth, with the Phoronix Test Suite installed simply run phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1708308-TY-RAZERLAPT10. Or to compare to the broader Linux laptop comparison, simply run phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1708304-TY-1708299TY14.
Razer Blade Stealth (late 2016, Intel 7500U, UHD / HiDPI) Ubuntu Linux 18.04.
- Razer Blade Stealth Linux & Ubuntu 18.04
- 1. Issues
- 2. Tweaks
- 3. Unsolved Issues
1. Issues
1.1. Installation
Running the live session and starting the installation ends with segfaults.
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- Select “Installation” while boot (Grub / USB Stick) works.
- Minimal installation, include 3rd party
- After installation, update and install Intel Microcode
1.2. Suspend Loop
After resume, the system loops back in suspend.The system send an ACPI event where the kernel defaults are different.
Change kernel defaults:
Update grub
1.3. Caps-Lock Crash
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The RBS crashes randomly mostly if you hit “Caps Lock”, causes by the build-in driver.
Modify /etc/default/keyboard, replacing capslocks by a second ctrl:
Solution 2:
Only needed if you run X11 instead of Wayland and enabled Capslock.
Get your keyboard description and use it instead of “AT Raw Set 2 keyboard”:
Re’disable keyboard after suspend:
1.4. Touchpad Temporary Freezes
With libinput, the pointer “jumps” while moving. The synaptics driver hasn’t this issue.Other users with RBS late 2017 reports dead zones, I’m not sure if they have tested the synaptics driver.Maybe 4.17-1 kernel solves this problem Issue 19.
Note: A new kernel workd better with libinput.
For me, synaptics works:
Reboot
Check if synaptics driver is running:
At boot and after suspend, the settings “TapButton3=0 ClickFinger3=0” are gone.Workaround:
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1.5. Touchpad Suspend
Touchpad fails resuming from suspend with:
Temporary fix:
Solution:
Libinput-gestures solves the problem:
My config.(If you prefer natural scrolling, change up/down)
Logout - Login
1.6. Touchscreen & Firefox
Firefox doesn’t seem to care about the touchscreen at all.
Tell Firefox to use XINPUT2:
Logout - Login.
2. Tweaks
2.1. Power Management
TLP is an advanced power management tool for Linux that tries to apply tweaks for you automatically, depending on your Linux distribution and hardware.
2.2. Touchpad tap & click
macOS touchpad feeling.
- Keyboard & Mouse
- Click Method: Fingers
2.3. “Capitaine” Cursors
- Install “Capitaine” Cursors
- Select via tweaks tool, Appearance, Themes, Cursor
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2.4. Dual Boot Antergos
“update-grub” add only /boot/intel-ucode.img to initrd.(Maybe) a hack, but works well on my system.
2.5. Grub Razer Theme
2.7. Gnome Theme
My current favorite :)
- Theme Application (Tweaks, Theme): “Numix” (✓)
- Theme Icons (Tweaks, Theme): “Yaru” (✓)
- Theme Sound (Tweaks, Theme): “Yaru” (✓)
2.8. Steam Interface
Change Steam interface enlargement based on monitor size:
- Settings, Interface, Enlarge text and icons based on monitor size
3. Unsolved Issues
3.1. Keyboard Colors & Openrazer
Currently Openrazer not used.
Issue: Settings are lost after suspend (Gnome, Wayland).
3.2. Webcam
Working only with 176x in cheese, or 640x480 in guvcview with 15/1 frames.
This fix not really helped:
3.3. Razer Core
Thunderbolt works, but nvidia with optirun won’t work.