User:Ctag/Dell Precision 7710
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Power Management
Status: works |
I have yet to get over 2 hours on a fully charged battery.
Audio
$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/snd-hda-intel.conf
options snd-hda-intel power_save=1
Video
Enabling switchable graphics and installing bumblebee had a huge impact on battery life.
Backlight
Function keys aren't automatically recognized. The xf86 keypresses are recognized by i3-wm which runs corresponding xbacklight commands.
$ cat ~/.i3/config
# Backlight bindsym XF86MonBrightnessUp exec xbacklight -inc 10 bindsym XF86MonBrightnessDown exec xbacklight -dec 10
NMI Watchdog
$ cat /etc/sysctl.d/disable_watchdog.conf
kernel.nmi_watchdog = 0
Dirty Writeback
$ cat /etc/sysctl.d/dirty_writeback.conf
vm.dirty_writeback_centisecs = 6000
Laptop config
$ cat /etc/sysctl.d/laptop.conf
vm.laptop_mode = 5
iwlwifi
$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/iwlwifi.conf
options iwlwifi power_save=1 d0i3_disable=0 uapsd_disable=0
Trackpoint
Status: Works |
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=221570
It looks like as of libinput 1.6.0 the trackpoint and touchpad are recognized separately. Unfortunately, the trackpoint is nearly unusable due to sensitivity issues.
External Screens
Enabling an external monitor causes trouble because Xorg can only handle one DPI, and right now that's set to work with the hiDPI internal screen.
Activate the external monitor with arandr, if the gui is too large:
xrandr --output eDP-1 --auto --output HDMI-2 --auto --panning 3840x2160+3840+0 --scale 1.5x1.5 --right-of eDP-1
HiDPI / High DPI / Retina / 4k
The nitpicky details are on User:ctag/HiDPI.
I have bumblebee set up. The NVIDIA video driver is installed, but the intel graphics driver is not. This is because recent versions of xorg server can get by without i915 or whatever.
General X info
$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 3840 x 2160, maximum 32767 x 32767 eDP1 connected 3840x2160+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 380mm x 210mm 3840x2160 60.02*+ 48.02 3200x1800 60.00 2880x1620 60.00 2560x1440 60.00 2048x1536 60.00 1920x1440 60.00 1856x1392 60.01 1792x1344 60.01 2048x1152 60.00 1920x1080 60.00 1600x1200 60.00 1400x1050 59.98 1600x900 60.00 1280x1024 60.02 1280x960 60.00 1368x768 60.00 1280x720 60.00 1024x768 60.00 1024x576 60.00 960x540 60.00 800x600 60.32 56.25 864x486 60.00 640x480 59.94 720x405 60.00 640x360 60.00 DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DP2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DP3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) HDMI1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) HDMI2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) HDMI3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) VIRTUAL1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
$ lspci | grep -i vga
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 530 (rev 06) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM204GLM [Quadro M3000M] (rev ff)
Troubleshooting
Sound card
Sometimes the sound card cuts out (usually after a suspend/resume cycle) and only a dummy device is listed in the pulseaudio mixer.
Here's one workaround: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1201242#p1201242