Re: Touchpad, audio, and wifi not working

[Lisi Reisz]

On Thursday 09 June 2016 17:10:26 Zachary Tretter wrote:
> I upgraded to stretch, installed firmware-realtek, and set pci=noaer.
> Everything in the title has been fixed. This thread can be renamed to
> solved.

:-)
>
> Thanks for the help.

It would be a good idea to update your BIOS or UEFI firmware as well if you 
are using Skylake, and to do so fairly frequently for a bit.

And I certainly heard that the Skylake firmware problems applied to Windows as 
well as Linux.

Oh - and I got Skylake running well on Jessie by upgrading the kernel and also 
the BIOS firmware.

Lisi

Re: Touchpad, audio, and wifi not working

[Zachary Tretter]

I upgraded to stretch, installed firmware-realtek, and set pci=noaer.
Everything in the title has been fixed. This thread can be renamed to
solved.

Thanks for the help.

Re: Touchpad, audio, and wifi not working

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Thu, 2016-06-09 at 08:40 -0500, Zachary Tretter wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 8:24 AM, Sven Arvidsson  wrote:
> > 
> > Skylake have had some serious
> > problems you might want to read up on. (To the point of the
> > hardware
> > being damaged or at least the lifespan shortened without running an
> > OS
> > with proper support)
> Guess I'll back up everything and upgrade to testing, maybe even sid
> later.
> You're scaring me. I think I should just stick to windows for another
> year.
> 
> I'll read up on all that later today. Thanks for the heads up.

It's probably no need to worry, and last I heard there where similar
problems on Windows, though maybe not quite as bad.

More info here: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/41713.html

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Re: Touchpad, audio, and wifi not working

[Zachary Tretter]

On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 8:24 AM, Sven Arvidsson  wrote:
>Skylake have had some serious
>problems you might want to read up on. (To the point of the hardware
>being damaged or at least the lifespan shortened without running an OS
>with proper support)

Guess I'll back up everything and upgrade to testing, maybe even sid later.
You're scaring me. I think I should just stick to windows for another year.

I'll read up on all that later today. Thanks for the heads up.

Re: Touchpad, audio, and wifi not working

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Thu, 2016-06-09 at 07:37 -0500, Zachary Tretter wrote:
> I do have a separate testing sources.list. I'm a bit hesitant to
> completely
> upgrade to testing because I always seem to get boot errors whenever
> I
> install new firmware/kernel.
> 
> Are there any specific packages related to firmware I should upgrade
> or
> should I just completely switch to testing and see what happens?

Hi,

Please reply directly to the list, you will get more, better and faster
replies! :)

I was thinking of the UEFI firmware, or BIOS, but other firmware and
microcode should probably be updated too. Skylake have had some serious
problems you might want to read up on. (To the point of the hardware
being damaged or at least the lifespan shortened without running an OS
with proper support)

You will most likely need a complete upgrade to testing or newer to get
most of the laptop. 

You didn't mention it in your post, but I doubt you would get proper
OpenGL/OpenCL support and video hardware decoding without X/libdrm/Mesa
from testing.

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Re: Touchpad, audio, and wifi not working

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Wed, 2016-06-08 at 19:30 -0500, Zachary Tretter wrote:
> I'm using an ASUS X555U laptop with an Intel Core i7-6500U CPU
> 
> I have no touchpad or audio support. I hear these can be fixed by
> installing a linux-image v4.X or greater. Though if I use
> linux-image-4.5.0-2-amd64 I get an infinite loop when booting,
> setting
> [...]

That hardware is so new, you need to use at least testing.

It's a Skylake system too, so extra important to use the latest
kernel/microcode/firmware etc.

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Re: Touchpad, audio, and wifi not working

[Norbert Kiszka]

Dnia 2016-06-08, śro o godzinie 19:30 -0500, Zachary Tretter pisze:
> I'm using an ASUS X555U laptop with an Intel Core i7-6500U CPU
> 
> I have no touchpad or audio support. I hear these can be fixed by
> installing a linux-image v4.X or greater. Though if I use
> linux-image-4.5.0-2-amd64 I get an infinite loop when booting, setting
> pci=noaer just makes it freeze on boot. I'm using
> linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64 which, other than the problems mentioned,
> is working fine.
> 
> 
> As for wifi, when I install firmware-realtek I also get an infinite
> loop when booting. But I can go into recovery mode to uninstall the
> package to fix that.
> 
> Here's some output:
> dmesg
> http://pastebin.com/UrKfbvhc
> 
> speccy (from my windows partition)
> http://pastebin.com/EquNaWZv
> 
> Really, getting wifi is the most important. I can live without the
> touchpad and audio support. I can provide more info if asked, I don't
> really know what output you guys need.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
Did You tried ndiswrapper for wifi?