Friday, June 23, 2017

system installation - Is Ubuntu compatible with the hp spectre x360?



I just bought the new hp spectre x360 dual-core i7, 8 GB ram and 256 SSD. Will Ubuntu run on this computer without issue or is it not yet supported?



EDIT: On recent Arch based Linux it works out of the box (Manjaro & Antergos): as of june 2017 at least




Just installed Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS on an HP Spectre 360.



All worked great out of the box, except... the sound.



I changed the kernel version to 4.0.9-040009-generic (but I don't think it really helped). It works well anyway.



All forum posts talk about the Dell XPS 13, but they are not working for Spectre.



TL;DR:




The only solution can be found here in the GREY zone:



http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-PC-Sound-and-Audio/HP-spectre-x360-on-linux/td-p/4980797



Yes, you must reboot 2 time! Weird.



EDIT



Below the essential part: --> It is all about kernel parameters in grub config




HOW TO:



Edit grub config by doing:



sudo vim /etc/default/grub



Edit the line:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash'"




Replace it with:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_backlight=vendor acpi_osi='!Windows 2013' acpi_osi='!Windows 2012'"



Then run:
sudo update-grub



Reboot TWO times. Yes. 2 times.



Then Sound works (FYI The sound card is now in HDA mode -not I2S).




To confirm, run: aplay -l
and make sure you have the following in the output:



card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC3242 Analog [ALC3242 Analog]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0



When you open the Alsa mixer (the ound mixer settings window), you should see a sound card displayed.



Note: The Added 'acpi_backlight=vendor' parameter apparently do nothing (it is supposed to keep backlight settings?)




EDIT BIS:



The card seems in mute mode as default. You need to setup pulseaudio correctly ( pulsaudio/Alsa ).
With Manjaro OpenRC Linux I had to add the following packages:




  • pulsaudio

  • pulseaudio-alsa

  • pulseaudio-equalizer

  • xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin


  • xfce4-volumed-pulse



then start the pulseaudio server manually



pulseaudio --start



from (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio#Starting_manually)



Now you can successfully launch the pulseaudio mixer (from associated the XFCE4 applet) & go to "output devices" and play with "port" and the sliders.



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