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
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1. Issues
1.1. Installation
Running the live session and starting the installation ends with segfaults.
- 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
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:
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
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.
Razer Blade Stealth (late 2016, Intel 7500U, UHD / HiDPI) Linux Ubuntu & Arch setup, including Razer Core with discrete NVIDIA GPU setup connected via thunderbolt.
This page is available as Github Page
Contact me at twitter @rolandguelle for questions or open an issue.
![Specs Specs](/uploads/1/3/7/2/137293693/777884086.jpg)
My current setup is Ubuntu 20.10 (Ubuntu, Gnome, Wayland).
- Razer Blade Stealth Linux
- Preparation
- Guides
Preparation
- BIOS updates via Windows 10
Disk Resize
Resize disk via Windows 10 Camedia master 4.0 download.
Guides
Ubuntu 20.10
Ubuntu 19.10
Ubuntu 19.04
Ubuntu 18.10
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 17.10
Arch (Antergos)
Razer Blade Stealth Review 2018
Elementary OS
Razer Blade 2018 Specs
Other Hardware Models
Download Drivers Razer Blade 2018
Credits
Razer Blade 2018 Review
- References
- Thanks