Ubuntu on Defiance XS
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I have a similar fan issue but it's not always on. It only occurs when I run graphically intensive operations I think, which makes me think it might be the fan on the video card.
I have some very specific steps that always replicate the issue for me but they're a bit peculiar, not sure if anyone has time to try them out:
1) Download the Godot 3.0 game engine : https://godotengine.org/download/linux
2) Run Godot and on the loading screen, you should see a "Project List" tab and next to it a "Templates" tab.
3) Go to "Templates" tab and in the search field search for "isometric", this should show the "2D Isometric Demo" in the list, click on it and install it somewhere
4) Open the "2D Isometric Demo" project and then press the Play button (looks like a play triangle) on the top right
When you do that you should hear a very sharp high ptich sound coming from the bottom left corner of the laptop.
I have some very specific steps that always replicate the issue for me but they're a bit peculiar, not sure if anyone has time to try them out:
1) Download the Godot 3.0 game engine : https://godotengine.org/download/linux
2) Run Godot and on the loading screen, you should see a "Project List" tab and next to it a "Templates" tab.
3) Go to "Templates" tab and in the search field search for "isometric", this should show the "2D Isometric Demo" in the list, click on it and install it somewhere
4) Open the "2D Isometric Demo" project and then press the Play button (looks like a play triangle) on the top right
When you do that you should hear a very sharp high ptich sound coming from the bottom left corner of the laptop.
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I just got a Defiance XS II and am having a strange mix of some of the problems mentioned in this thread:
I installed Ubuntu 18.04 with the acpi=off kernel parameter (the installer froze within seconds of startup without this),
I have no internal audio
I cannot change the screen brightness
The backlit keyboard's backlight function keys don't work
The installed system also freezes within a minute of login without acpi=off, however this setting prevents Linux seeing the core temperatures and results in the fans never slowing down (system can be reasonably quiet with acpi enabled)
Wifi is fine though, maybe the XS II has a different card. I've tried upgrading to the latest mainline kernel as suggested on the first page of this thread but this doesn't have any effect on the other problems.
I also get a HDD-esque clicking noise despite not actually having a HDD in my configuration. Is it definitely the HDD in your case?
I installed Ubuntu 18.04 with the acpi=off kernel parameter (the installer froze within seconds of startup without this),
I have no internal audio
I cannot change the screen brightness
The backlit keyboard's backlight function keys don't work
The installed system also freezes within a minute of login without acpi=off, however this setting prevents Linux seeing the core temperatures and results in the fans never slowing down (system can be reasonably quiet with acpi enabled)
Wifi is fine though, maybe the XS II has a different card. I've tried upgrading to the latest mainline kernel as suggested on the first page of this thread but this doesn't have any effect on the other problems.
I also get a HDD-esque clicking noise despite not actually having a HDD in my configuration. Is it definitely the HDD in your case?
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To Lavaridges problems, I got the same motherboard running Arch Linux. To get sound working, set kernel parameters:
options snd-hda-intel model=no-primary-hp
It's not flawless on my system, but at least sounds are workable, I have to peek into alsamixer when switching to/from headphones. Screen brightness and keyboard lighting issues remain the same. I'll look into them at some point. I'm running 4.16.13 kernel atm, as Arch does keep up with latest kernel updates.
System freezing issue could be the same I experienced with lspci and relates to nouveau graphics driver. Blacklisting nouveau on kernel params solved my issue, and acpi can stay on. The nouveau driver performance is terrible compared to nvidia's proprietary driver, I would have preferred AMD GPU as they have good opensource drivers, but that was no option when building the machine on pcspecialists.
I tried to change the thread I started to just: Linux on Defiance XS II, without the Arch prefix, so Ubuntu users are welcome to write there too, but can't figure it out
Anyway, the motherboard on Def XS II is Clevo P950EP6, and deserves it's own thread.
options snd-hda-intel model=no-primary-hp
It's not flawless on my system, but at least sounds are workable, I have to peek into alsamixer when switching to/from headphones. Screen brightness and keyboard lighting issues remain the same. I'll look into them at some point. I'm running 4.16.13 kernel atm, as Arch does keep up with latest kernel updates.
System freezing issue could be the same I experienced with lspci and relates to nouveau graphics driver. Blacklisting nouveau on kernel params solved my issue, and acpi can stay on. The nouveau driver performance is terrible compared to nvidia's proprietary driver, I would have preferred AMD GPU as they have good opensource drivers, but that was no option when building the machine on pcspecialists.
I tried to change the thread I started to just: Linux on Defiance XS II, without the Arch prefix, so Ubuntu users are welcome to write there too, but can't figure it out
Anyway, the motherboard on Def XS II is Clevo P950EP6, and deserves it's own thread.
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Oddly, I haven't heard the clicking noise in a while. I do think it was the HDD simply because it was often triggered by mounting a partition on the HDD, but it could be something else.
I'm still having fairly noisy fans which is the most annoying of the issues for me, esp. when using the CPU intensively, like when compiling a large program, fans go crazy. It's hard to convey but attaching a recording.