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Models covered
Razer Blade Stealth (Early 2017)

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The purpose is not to duplicate the Debian Official Documentation, but to document how to install Debian on some specific hardware.

If you need help to get Debian running on your hardware, please have a look at our user support channels where you may find specific channels (mailing list, IRC channel) dedicated to certain types of hardware.

Overall Status

Core Components

[ATTACH]

Boot Standard Kernel:

{OK}

LAN network card:

{OK}

Detect hard drives:

{OK}

Extra Features

CPU Frequency Scaling

[?]

Hibernation

[?]

Sleep / Suspend

{?}

Xorg

{OK}

- OpenGL

{OK}

- Resize-and-Rotate(randr)

{OK}

Switch to External Screen

{OK}

Mouse

- Built-in (Touchpad)

{OK}

- Built-in (Touchscreen)

{OK}

Wireless/Wifi

{OK}

Keyboard's Hotkeys

{OK}

Legend :
{OK} = OK ; {X} Unsupported(No Driver) ; /!\ = Error (Couldn't get it working); [?] Unknown, Not Test ; [-] Not-applicable
{i} = Configuration Required; X-( = Only works with a non-free driver and or firmware

Important Note

{i} This laptop comes with EFI Secure Boot enabled. It can easily be disabled in the BIOS (F1 at boot) by switching to the legacy BIOS mode. However, this will prevent Windows from booting, if you want to do a dual boot install. Windows and Debian both boot with secure boot disabled.

Configuration

Display

Works, no problem.

Audio

Works, no problem.

Keyboard

Has an issue with the ?CapsLock key causing a crash in the graphics driver. To workaround create /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-razer-kbd.conf with the following:

Section "?InputClass"

?EndSection

This will disable the keyboard driver causing the crash. There is a Razer specific keyboard driver available from: https://openrazer.github.io/ that does not crash.

Mouse

The Trackpad works, and supports multiple finger scrolling similar to the trackpad on Macbooks.

Power Management

Sleep and resume works, add kernel parameter: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="button.lid_init_state=open" to /etc/default/grub Suspend to ram works with "echo mem > /sys/power/state"

Add this keyboard fix to /etc/pm/sleep.d/20_razer_kbd

#!/bin/sh case $1 in

esac

This will disable the builtin AT Keyboard driver that causes the laptop to crash.

WiFi

Works, requires non-free firmware (Atheros QCA6174)


System Summary

lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 5904 (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 5916 (rev 02)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP USB 3.0 xHCI Controller (rev 21)
00:14.2 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Thermal subsystem (rev 21)
00:15.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #0 (rev 21)
00:15.1 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #1 (rev 21)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP CSME HECI #1 (rev 21)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 9d12 (rev f1)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #5 (rev f1)
00:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #9 (rev f1)
00:1e.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Serial IO UART Controller #0 (rev 21)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device 9d58 (rev 21)
00:1f.2 Memory controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PMC (rev 21)
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Device 9d71 (rev 21)
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP SMBus (rev 21)
01:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 32)
3b:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device a804

lsusb

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 04f3:223c Elan Microelectronics Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1532:0220 Razer USA, Ltd 
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:579f Realtek Semiconductor Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0cf3:e300 Atheros Communications, Inc. 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

lsusb -v | grep -E '\<(Bus|iProduct|bDeviceClass|bDeviceProtocol)' 2>/dev/null

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceProtocol         3 
  iProduct                2 xHCI Host Controller
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 04f3:223c Elan Microelectronics Corp. 
  bDeviceClass            0 (Defined at Interface level)
  bDeviceProtocol         0 
  iProduct               14 Touchscreen
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1532:0220 Razer USA, Ltd 
  bDeviceClass            0 (Defined at Interface level)
  bDeviceProtocol         0 
  iProduct                2 Razer Blade Stealth
      (Bus Powered)
  (Bus Powered)
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:579f Realtek Semiconductor Corp. 
  bDeviceClass          239 Miscellaneous Device
  bDeviceProtocol         1 Interface Association
  iProduct                1 USB Camera
      (Bus Powered)
  (Bus Powered)
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0cf3:e300 Atheros Communications, Inc. 
  bDeviceClass          224 Wireless
  bDeviceProtocol         1 Bluetooth
  iProduct                0 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceProtocol         1 Single TT
  iProduct                2 xHCI Host Controller

Resources

Attachments

Some configuration files and sample outputs.

Credits


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