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JackHack96 / dell-xps-9570-ubuntu-respin

Collection of scripts and tweaks to adapt Ubuntu running smooth on Dell XPS 15 9570.
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Dell XPS 7590 Ubuntu 19.04 #108

Closed Globegitter closed 4 years ago

Globegitter commented 5 years ago

I just got my new Dell model and installed Ubuntu 19.04 - apart from issues with the wifi driver (Killer 1650 driver was only added in linux 5.1 and some fixes in 5.2) it all worked out of the box smoothly and also my wifi is working again.

So do you know if I can still run this tweaks script here? I should probably uncomment https://github.com/JackHack96/dell-xps-9570-ubuntu-respin/blob/master/xps-tweaks.sh#L162-L165 but otherwise would you expect it to just work? I am also happy to provide some feedback once I tried it out.

Globegitter commented 5 years ago

Ok I ran the script without installing the wifi drivers and ended up with a black screen on reboot. I uninstalled the nvidia and intel drivers but that did not help. I also noticed a line appearing Possible missing firmware ... for module i915 so I revereted that change and I also noticed that the etc/default/grub file was empty and there was a grup.backup-prime-select or similar. So I reverted that. After that I could restart again. So I am not sure what exactly is messing up the system here but if anyone has any idea it would be great to get this working properly.

JackHack96 commented 5 years ago

Sorry for the late response. Well, I can't test the script myself, it requires a lot of trial-and-error (I spent two days installing and reinstalling on my 9570 before having a first working version).

It should work though...

Globegitter commented 5 years ago

Yeah no worries that makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the response though, I will keep this updated as I make progress.

Globegitter commented 5 years ago

Installed the nvidia drivers again and all is fine. So that was not the issue.

JackHack96 commented 5 years ago

Maybe the Intel card flags are disturbing... idk

rgarrigue commented 5 years ago

Hey @GlobeGitter, I've a question for you. Do you have the latest 2019 XPS ? I bought mine this summer, Dell website advertising a new XPS hence the "2019". If yes I'm wondering how you installed Ubuntu ? Disabling secureboot, fast boot and booting with nomodeset or acpi=off ? I'm fighting with this myself and ended up with grub-efi-amd64-signed failed to install, and I'm wondering why

JackHack96 commented 5 years ago

Hey @Globegitter, I've a question for you. Do you have the latest 2019 XPS ? I bought mine this summer, Dell website advertising a new XPS hence the "2019". If yes I'm wondering how you installed Ubuntu ? Disabling secureboot, fast boot and booting with nomodeset or acpi=off ? I'm fighting with this myself and ended up with grub-efi-amd64-signed failed to install, and I'm wondering why

Did you set AHCI for disks in the BIOS?

rgarrigue commented 5 years ago

Yes also

Globegitter commented 5 years ago

@rgarrigue yeah it is the latest model I have. There where no issues whatsoever to install it. All I did was setting the AHCI in the BIOS, then I installed using the standard Ubuntu 19.04 ISO and the only thing that was not working was the wifi, for which I manually installed the latest firmware (and I think it should be fixed with 19.10).

Nothing else I had to disable as far as I remember. I did end up disabling secure boot as well but I am pretty sure that was just due to nvidia drivers.

But where are you seeing grub-efi-amd64-signed failed to install?

rgarrigue commented 5 years ago

@Globegitter Around the end of the install process.

I guess the mistake I made was power it on to check it was working, thus starting the Windows 10, and powering it down the hard way out of lazyness to finish the W10 configuration. It might have locked the UEFI.

So there I am, I've been trying a lot of thing, like ideas from https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub-installer/+bug/1771651, nothing worked so far.

rgarrigue commented 5 years ago

So just for the record, I managed to install my laptop using ubiquity -b to do so without bootloader, then using Boot Repair to get a functional boot.

Globegitter commented 5 years ago

@rgarrigue Great! Have you tried out the xps tweaks script yet?

rgarrigue commented 5 years ago

No. Everything seems fine, I guess I'll read it and cherry pick what might be interesting.

Globegitter commented 5 years ago

@rgarrigue If you do I would be curios to hear what worked for you and what you cherry picked.

SulemanAhmadd commented 5 years ago

Hey guys, is anyone experiencing cpu thermal throttling on Dell XPS 7590 under ubuntu 19.04?

SulemanAhmadd commented 5 years ago

Things are working pretty stable now after the 19.10 update.

JackHack96 commented 5 years ago

Things are working pretty stable now after the 19.10 update.

Good to know, I believe Ubuntu 19.10 is good out-of-the-box. Just install TLP and go!

kistlers commented 5 years ago

@rgarrigue yeah it is the latest model I have. There where no issues whatsoever to install it. All I did was setting the AHCI in the BIOS, then I installed using the standard Ubuntu 19.04 ISO and the only thing that was not working was the wifi, for which I manually installed the latest firmware (and I think it should be fixed with 19.10).

Nothing else I had to disable as far as I remember. I did end up disabling secure boot as well but I am pretty sure that was just due to nvidia drivers.

But where are you seeing grub-efi-amd64-signed failed to install?

Could you tell me how exactly you got the wifi working? It is currently also the only thing not working on my 7590 on 19.04.

rgarrigue commented 5 years ago

@Pot-8-O for the wifi see here

kistlers commented 5 years ago

@rgarrigue I tried this before but without success. But now I updated my 5.0.x kernel to 5.2.2 and together with these steps it worked.

Globegitter commented 5 years ago

@rgarrigue @Pot-8-O @SulemanAhmadd Is any of you having issues with changing the display brightness? When I press Fn+F11/12 I can see the brightness indicator pop up and the bar also changes but nothing happens to the actual brightness of the screen. Are you experiencing the same? I have searched around online and found a few articles but nothing fixed anything.

Also I just reinstalled with Ubuntu 19.10 beta and everything worked really smoothly. It installed the nvidia driver out of the box, I can also see a new option with prime-select, called on-demand and wifi also worked out of the box :) Now just the screen brightness left.

rgarrigue commented 5 years ago

@Globegitter no issue related to brightness here.

kistlers commented 5 years ago

@Globegitter also no brightness issues here

Globegitter commented 5 years ago

Hmm, odd. Are you having the OLED screen version? I wonder if it could have something to do with that.

SulemanAhmadd commented 5 years ago

@Globegitter Yes, the OLED panel does have issues with changing the brightness setting.

In order to resolve that I followed the Screen Brightness setup here: https://github.com/TillmannBerg/Ubuntu-Dell-XPS-15-2019

It allows you to change the screen brightness from the keys, but the display bar will still not have any effect. Secondly, the display settings are not saved when you shutdown the laptop, so you have to change the brightness every time.

ferrolho commented 5 years ago

@Globegitter, have you managed to install and use the nvidia drivers?

I also have the Dell XPS 15 7590, and even though the driver shows up under "Additional Drivers" and is selected, it does not seem to load properly:

ERROR: NVIDIA driver is not loaded

Screenshot from 2019-10-01 20-04-40

Screenshot from 2019-10-01 20-04-57

Globegitter commented 5 years ago

@ferrolho I would recommend to just wait for Ubuntu 19.10 (or go with the beta) and then re-install from scratch. There you can select for the nvidia drivers to be installed with the OS installation.

But also do check if your nvidia graphics card is selected or your intel one, via prime-select query.

Globegitter commented 5 years ago

@SulemanAhmadd Thanks for that link I will check it out.

ferrolho commented 5 years ago 
➜  ~ prime-select query
nvidia

@Globegitter, right. I'll have a try at the beta (official release is in 14 days anyway). Surely I won't need to reinstall from scratch, right?

Edit after having upgraded to Ubuntu 19.10

Proprietary drivers are now showing up (previously listed as 'open-source').

Screenshot from 2019-10-03 11-43-26

However, I still cannot use them. If I run nvidia-settings I get the following errors:

➜  ~ nvidia-settings
ERROR: NVIDIA driver is not loaded
ERROR: Unable to load info from any available system

And this is what the NVIDIA X Server Settings looks like:

Screenshot from 2019-10-03 11-46-36

Globegitter commented 5 years ago

@ferrolho I tried to upgrade without reinstalling and then I could not boot up anymore. I have read at a few different places (forums, reddit etc) that between certain ubuntu versions it is safer to reinstall from scratch. I don't have that much experience with it and it might lead to exactly the same result in your case but could be worth trying.

Globegitter commented 5 years ago

@ferrolho Also for me the 435 driver is the selected one, have you tried that one?

SulemanAhmadd commented 5 years ago

@Globegitter Have you found out any alternate way to change the display brightness?

ferrolho commented 5 years ago

@ferrolho Also for me the 435 driver is the selected one, have you tried that one?

Yes, I have tried both versions. I think I will wait for the 17th to just reinstall 19.10 from scratch and check if that solves the problem. I shall report back here then.

Globegitter commented 5 years ago

@SulemanAhmadd Not yet, for me the solution from https://github.com/TillmannBerg/Ubuntu-Dell-XPS-15-2019 works well enough for now.

Globegitter commented 5 years ago

@SulemanAhmadd The only other thing I have come across just now is: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dell_XPS_15_7590#Backlight - but not given it a try yet.

ferrolho commented 5 years ago

@SulemanAhmadd The only other thing I have come across just now is: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dell_XPS_15_7590#Backlight - but not given it a try yet.

I am using that one and it works fine. The only issue with it is if you use it alongside Night Light. Does https://github.com/TillmannBerg/Ubuntu-Dell-XPS-15-2019#screen-brightness-oled work with Night Light?

ferrolho commented 5 years ago

@Globegitter (and everyone else), Ubuntu 19.10 has been officially released and I decided to install from scratch. Results:

Globegitter commented 5 years ago

Yep, I can confirm this experience. Even though it would be nice to have brighntess out of the box I am quite happy with the experience now :)

naXa777 commented 5 years ago

I should probably uncomment https://github.com/JackHack96/dell-xps-9570-ubuntu-respin/blob/master/xps-tweaks.sh#L162-L165 but otherwise would you expect it to just work?

I don't understand these lines.

@Globegitter, could you explain why do you think you need to uncomment these lines for your Dell? you have Dell XPS 7590, right?

ferrolho commented 5 years ago

@naXa777, there's a bit of confusion here: @Globegitter did not copy the permalink when he wrote his comment in this thread, and now the lines are pointing to a different piece of code. Since his comment has been posted on August 12, and the latest commit in this repos previous to that date is 68ac304dc5606a449a0d856cb7137c2222677efc, the lines which he was originally referring to are: https://github.com/JackHack96/dell-xps-9570-ubuntu-respin/blob/68ac304dc5606a449a0d856cb7137c2222677efc/xps-tweaks.sh#L161-L165

Globegitter commented 5 years ago

@naXa777 yes @ferrolho is correct - sorry about that and thanks for posting the correct lines.

pistomat commented 4 years ago

EDIT2: I was wrong, it didn't help at all. Currently it seems like a bug in the Linux kernel, I will keep you updated.

EDIT: I got it working simply by turning on Nvidia drivers with prime-select nvidia. Don't know what else I did and why it was not working after fresh install.

Hey guys, thanks for the tips. I am having trouble getting my display to work. I have the FullHD IPS version.

After several reinstallations of a Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 19.10 I managed to get it to install with these options:

Here is what is weird. I tried running the system on the Intel GPU by running sudo prime-select intel. After reboot the sudo prime-select query outputs intel as expected, nvidia-smi fails as expected and nvidia-settings shows PRIME-profile in Intel (Power Savings Mode) as expected. This leads me to believe the Nvidia GPU is succesfully turned off, yet the built-in display shows heavy artifacts making in unusable most of the time (the other time I experienced something similar was when I fried my GPU on my old desktop). However an external monitor I am using works flawlessly, so what is going on?

I tried running this script after one of the fresh installs, but it booted into black screen so I reinstalled it again.

SulemanAhmadd commented 4 years ago

Is any one of you having random freezes on ubuntu 19.10? (They randomly occur and then go away). Feels like the kernel just freezes.

sanjayja commented 4 years ago

@SulemanAhmadd The only other thing I have come across just now is: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dell_XPS_15_7590#Backlight - but not given it a try yet.

I am using that one and it works fine. The only issue with it is if you use it alongside Night Light. Does https://github.com/TillmannBerg/Ubuntu-Dell-XPS-15-2019#screen-brightness-oled work with Night Light?

Below link instructions working fine on my Dell_XPS_15_7590. https://github.com/udifuchs/icc-brightness

rmaree commented 4 years ago

Hello all,

Thanks for the different inputs that helped me to install my Dell XPS 7590 Oled using Ubuntu 19.10.

However i'm still experimenting some issues and i'm wondering if anyone has/had the same ones:

1) Suspend is not working. WHen I close the lid and re-open it, everything is freezed, keyboard and touchpad are not working anymore and i have to do a hard shutdown. Also I don't have any option in the GUI to suspend (All entries in /etc/systemd/sleep.conf are also commented by default). It seems suspend might not be efficient according to https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2429906 Is it ok for you ?

2) I have some erratic behavior with usb devices, e.g. mouse is not working after a reboot after the login screen (but it works at the login screen), so i have to unplug/replug it to make it work.

3) Brigthness adjustements with xrandr seems to be reset to default bright values on a rather regular basis (like opening an applicaton or plugin a device) and conflicts with night light mode, i'm now considering using icc-brightness (as mentioned before) or eyesome (https://github.com/WinEunuuchs2Unix/eyesome)

4) I'm a bit disappointed by battery life although of course it very much depends on usage. I'm combining tools such as powertop tunables, laptop-mode, and low brightness, to improve this but i'm often above a discharge rate of 30 watts (as reported by powertop) and around 3 or 4 hours of autonomy. What about yours ?

5) I'm not yet able to detect my Bluetooth devices (Motorola Moto-E Android smartphone, Libratone Zipp speakers). I realized today in a public space i'm detecting some other bluetooth devices, so i'm still investigating.

sanjayja commented 4 years ago

For Point 1. I am facing same issue. For Point 2. I didn't used external mouse, hence not tested. For Point 3. Although brightness control woking fine using icc-brighteness after login, however for gdm login screen still it is showing in full brightness mode. Point 4. I am facing same issue as workaround using Vmware Workstation during transist. Point 5. I tested sennheiser headset hd 4.40 bt bluetooh headset, it is working fine.

SulemanAhmadd commented 4 years ago

@rmaree

  1. Follow the instructions on: (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dell_XPS_15_7590#Suspend). You need to select the deep variant.

  2. Yes, happens to me as well for my ear phones. Have to replug them. Please let me know if anyone finds a solution for this.

  3. Same Issue. Looking for a solution.

  4. The graphic card update guide at (https://github.com/TillmannBerg/Ubuntu-Dell-XPS-15-2019), does make the power consumption to fluctuate around 12W, but the when the system goes into standby, the GPU "falls off the bus" when waking up and requires hard reset.

  5. Works fine for me.

aviskase commented 4 years ago

Is any one of you having random freezes on ubuntu 19.10? (They randomly occur and then go away).

Yup. Do you use Gnome with XOrg? I've noticed that it's just touchpad (mouse and keyboard probably too), but the environment seems to be ok (I see terminal continue to update). It looks like Gnome/XOrg related problem.

Edit: you can fix it with powertop too, but I've installed tlp . You need to blacklist your usb devices and touchpad (PCI 00.15.1 and 00.15.0) from power saving

aviskase commented 4 years ago

I have two problems, does anyone know how to solve them?

  1. With time Gnome eats ~7.7 GB memory
  2. Constant lags during scrolling or watching videos&gifs, around every 3sec. They are bearable, but completely unexpected --- my 9 years old laptop never had such problems
rgarrigue commented 4 years ago

Hi guys

Just sharing a day of pain :

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