The beautiful Silent ThunderBolt-3 PC

Re:The beautiful Silent ThunderBolt-3 PC by eulers_secret on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @12:09PM (#25519676)

I have a 9310, and the stock Ubuntu was OK. The biggest issue is thermald was older and limited the frequency boosting (so lower perf). I run 20.10 now with thermald master and kernel 5.10.1 (includes patches which enable pc10 sleep states and 400mhz cpu idle speed). Now it boosts and idles appropriately.

What’s “backlight oder hw acceleration” are you referring to refresh rate or something like PSR? I want to know if it’s something I need to check on my 9310...

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Re:The beautiful Silent ThunderBolt-3 PC by pizza234 on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @12:21PM (#25519806)

"oder" is "or" in German, so I think they meant "backlight or hw acceleration".

I own a more recent Dell XPS 13, and the keyboard backlight support is indeed buggy - it needs a configuration patch to prevent it from turning on on logon.

Not sure what's exactly the hw acceleration. If they refer to the Intel integrated GPUs, the configuration is pretty much standard; up to 18.04 the only thing I needed to configure was the VSync (this was the same also for other laptops), but with 20.04, I didn't need anymore.

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