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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