gertech.blogg.se - Surface book 2

I spent a while scratching my head as to why I couldn't install Linux dual-boot. I did a stock install of the latest Ubuntu LTS (18.04) dual boot with Windows (1TB hard drive helps!), and then installed jakeday's custom Linux kernel and drivers.

It's too bad Microsoft opted for some custom charger for the Surface Book 2.

Apparently, the NVIDIA GPU downthrottles itself due to thermal sensor shenanigans (something something the fan is on the motherboard and not the GPU so the driver thinks the fan is broken and throttles? Mumble.).

I'm also feeling the loss of dedicated page-up/page-down key. This is somewhat irritating because you have to remember which setting it's on to decide if you should hold it to get the other toggle.

The function key is hardwired to toggle fn-lock.The support of Ubuntu Unity for high DPI has gotten much better since the last time I've attempted anything like it, however if I stick to the terminal and browser, things look reasonable. There's nothing wrong with this per se (and you basically can't buy a non-high DPI laptop these days), but any software that doesn't understand how to do high DPI (VMWare and Xournal, I'm looking at you) looks bad. Probably some fucking around with my ACPI settings might help but I haven't looked closely into it yet. My current hypothesis is that the power button is getting pushed (unlike most laptops, the power button is unprotected on the top of the screen). The laptop un-hibernates itself sometimes when I put it in my backpack.But it takes quite a long time to suspend, an even longer time to restart, and you still have to click past the bootloader (which makes me seriously wonder if we are actually suspending). Although jakeday's setup.sh suggests that suspend is not working, something is working, in the sense that if I close my laptop lid, the laptop goes into a low power state of some sort. (Updated on March 19, 2019) Suspend is really slow.Two standard USB ports as well as a USB-C port means I don't need dongles for most usage (unlike my Macbook Pro, which only has USB-C ports.).The keyboard is nice not as good as a classic Thinkpad keyboard but having actual function keys, but it has real function keys (unlike the Macbook Pro I use at work.).Linux support for other random features has pleasantly surprised me: I managed to get a working CUDA install and drivers (for PyTorch development), ability to boot my Linux partition bare metal as well as from a VM in Windows and I can even detach the screen while booted into Linux.That's Xournal with XInput pen and hibernate (though with some caveats.) I've managed to get all of the "important" functionality to work.