I am Debian user (Ubuntu before that... since Ubuntu 6 and days of shipitubuntu)
I got this laptop I hadn't been able to use Debian because my external monitor on HDMI would just not work/detect.
But today I thought I'd give Ubuntu a try and it works. Right out of the box.
I have a ASUS TUF FX504GM laptop with an Intel i7 8750H & nvidia 1060. Here's my system's complete info
Code:
System: Host: HomeLT Kernel: 4.19.0-6-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.19.0-6-amd64
root=UUID=c3cf7cf3-60b4-4639-af2a-63e8a397f5d8 ro quiet splash
Desktop: Xfce 4.14.1 tk: Gtk 3.24.5 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 dm: LightDM 1.26.0
Distro: MX-19_x64 patito feo October 21 2019 base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Machine: Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: TUF GAMING FX504GM_FX80GM v: 1.0
serial: <filter>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: FX504GM v: 1.0 serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends
v: FX504GM.308 date: 06/10/2019
Battery: ID-1: BAT1 charge: 44.0 Wh condition: 44.0/48.1 Wh (91%) volts: 4.0/11.7
model: ASUS A32-K55 type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Full
CPU: Topology: 6-Core model: Intel Core i7-8750H bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Kaby Lake
family: 6 model-id: 9E (158) stepping: A (10) microcode: B4 L2 cache: 9216 KiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 52992
Speed: 900 MHz min/max: 800/4100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 901 2: 900 3: 900 4: 900
5: 901 6: 900 7: 900 8: 900 9: 900 10: 900 11: 900 12: 900
Vulnerabilities: Type: l1tf
mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
Graphics: Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 630 vendor: ASUSTeK driver: i915 v: kernel
bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:3e9b
Device-2: NVIDIA GP106M [GeForce GTX 1060] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: N/A
bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:1c20
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
resolution: 1920x1080~120Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel UHD Graphics 630 (Coffeelake 3x8 GT2)
v: 4.5 Mesa 18.3.6 compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:a348
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.0-6-amd64
Network: Device-1: Intel Wireless-AC 9560 [Jefferson Peak] driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
port: 6000 bus ID: 00:14.3 chip ID: 8086:a370
IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000 bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8168
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 1.15 TiB used: 5.21 GiB (0.4%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Kingston model: RBUSNS8154P3256GJ size: 238.47 GiB
block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 15.8 Gb/s lanes: 2 serial: <filter>
rev: E8FK11.C scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LX015-1U7172 size: 931.51 GiB block size:
physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter>
rev: SDM1 scheme: GPT
ID-3: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: Cruzer Blade size: 7.45 GiB
block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B serial: <filter> rev: 1.26 scheme: GPT
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 31.50 GiB size: 30.88 GiB (98.03%) used: 5.18 GiB (16.8%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 49.0 C mobo: 27.8 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0
Repos: No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list
1: deb http://iso.mxrepo.com/antix/buster buster main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free
2: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
1: deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ buster main non-free
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list
Info: Processes: 303 Uptime: 3m Memory: 15.52 GiB used: 1.02 GiB (6.6%) Init: SysVinit
v: 2.93 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3
running in: quick-system-in inxi: 3.0.36
I tried bumblebee, prime etc and could not make it work.
Can someone enlighten me why Ubuntu is able to work right out of box when Debian, MX Linux and Manjaro/Arch failed to?
Like what configuration, drivers, work around are implemented?
I am actually very curious to learn. Understand where I failed.
Also... I don't want to use Ubuntu and would rather keep to MXLinux.[/b]
So could you good people help me figure out what Ubuntu has done to make this work? What confguration files do I need to copy the content of and apply on MX, what drivers should I use, what janky hacks/workaround they have used?
Can anyone show me what to look for and where?
glxinfo | grep OpenGL > output
Code:
OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630 (Coffeelake 3x8 GT2)
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.5 (Core Profile) Mesa 19.0.2
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.50
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 19.0.2
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL extensions:
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.2 Mesa 19.0.2
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.20
OpenGL ES profile extensions:
apt list installed | egrep video
Code:
xserver-xorg-video-all-hwe-18.04/bionic-updates,now 1:7.7+19ubuntu8~18.04.2 amd64 [installed,automatic]
xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu-hwe-18.04/bionic-updates,now 19.0.1-1~18.04.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
xserver-xorg-video-ati-hwe-18.04/bionic-updates,now 1:19.0.1-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
xserver-xorg-video-fbdev-hwe-18.04/bionic-updates,now 1:0.5.0-1ubuntu1~18.04.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
xserver-xorg-video-intel-hwe-18.04/bionic-updates,now 2:2.99.917+git20171229-1ubuntu1~18.04.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau-hwe-18.04/bionic-updates,now 1:1.0.16-1~18.04.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
xserver-xorg-video-qxl-hwe-18.04/bionic-updates,now 0.1.5-2build2~18.04.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
xserver-xorg-video-radeon-hwe-18.04/bionic-updates,now 1:19.0.1-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
xserver-xorg-video-vesa-hwe-18.04/bionic-updates,now 1:2.4.0-1~18.04.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
xserver-xorg-video-vmware-hwe-18.04/bionic-updates,now 1:13.3.0-2build1~18.04.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
apt list installed | egrep nvidia
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apt list installed | egrep bumble
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