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

1. Issues

The 2018 Blade maintains the same sleek, machined-aluminum chassis that first turned heads on its debut, all-black with the lime-green 'Razer snakes' logo on the lid. But, unlike many of Razer's. Razer Blade 15” (2018) Advanced: Razer Blade 15” (2018) Base Model. Razer Blade Stealth 13' (Late 2019) - Mercury White Model: Razer Blade Stealth 13.

Razer Blade Stealth 12.5” (2016) - Intel 6500U Razer Blade Intel ME Firmware Update Instructions Details Download: Description: Razer Blade Intel ME Firmware Update Instruction. 2019 Razer Blade Stealth. Doesn't resume from sleep properly when the lid is opened. A workaround has been merged into the 5.6 kernel. On the latest 'KabyLake' Intel CPU, if you also have a dual-boot with Windows, you might experience some audio issues when booting to Windows and restarting on Linux.

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.

Razer Blade Stealth Linux 2019

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

Razer Blade Stealth Linux 2018 Iso

3. Unsolved Issues

3.1. Keyboard Colors & Openrazer

Razer Blade Stealth 13 Reviews

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.