Installation report: Lubuntu 18.04 on the Dell Inspiron 3565 (model: I3565-A453BLK-PUS)

m_yates · 05-29-2018, 01:31 PM

I guess I will start with what DID NOT work.

1) The F11 and F12 keys normally adjust the display brightness. These keys have no effect when running Lubuntu. In addition, the display brightness is set to a very low level (almost unreadable) after the first reboot. The only way that I found to adjust the display brightness is manually. For example, this command sets the display at a setting of 250 (out of a maximum of 255):

Code:

sudo tee /sys/class/backlight/amdgpu_bl0/brightness <<< 250

Fortunately, the brightness setting is maintained after rebooting once it is set manually.

2) I encountered strange GPU hangs when using a dedicated 4 GB swap partition on the disk. I did not really dig into what was causing this. If you use the default partitioning scheme (taking over the entire disk with 1 partition (excluding the EFI partition), then I did not experience GPU hangs.

Other than the brightness adjustment keys not working, everything works as expected. The installer successfully configured wired and wireless networking, video settings, sound, and touchpad. I was able to connect an external projector to the laptop using the HDMI port. When plugging in headphones, the sound automatically switched over from the internal speakers to the headphones. Essentially everything else worked as expected. I measured power use, and it should be easy to get 5 hours of light computing running on the battery. Overall, it is a very nice computer with a 15 inch display for well under $300.

My full write up is on my blog.

If anyone has any ideas of what could be causing GPU hangs, please let me know.

rokytnji · 05-30-2018, 10:11 PM

Just in case you did not know. Looks like inxi comes stock in Ubuntu distros.

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/...n1/inxi.1.html

Just in case you wish to add your specs in that readout in this thread using code tags < hash mark in advanced reply toolbar > like so.

Code:

harry@biker:~
$ inxi -zv8
System:    Host: biker Kernel: 4.9.83-antix.1-686-smp-pae i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 4.9.2 
           Desktop: IceWM 1.3.8 dm: slim Distro: antiX-15-V_386-full Killah P 30 June 2015 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 2347DS2 v: ThinkPad T430 serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 
           serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: LENOVO model: 2347DS2 serial: <filter> UEFI [Legacy]: LENOVO v: G1ET41WW (1.16 ) 
           date: 05/25/2012 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 22.8 Wh condition: 22.9/56.2 Wh (41%) volts: 12.3/10.8 model: SANYO 45N1001 
           type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Unknown 
Memory:    RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Are you root? 
PCI Slots: Permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Are you root? 
CPU:       Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-3320M bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Ivy Bridge rev: 9 
           L2 cache: 3072 KiB bogomips: 20751 
           Speed: 1267 MHz min/max: 1200/3300 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1267 2: 1216 3: 2178 4: 1230 
           Flags: acpi aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon avx bts clflush cmov constant_tsc cx16 cx8 de 
           ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts eagerfpu epb ept erms est f16c flexpriority fpu fsgsbase fxsr ht ida 
           lahf_lm lm mca mce mmx monitor msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nx pae pat pbe pclmulqdq pdcm pebs pge pln pni 
           popcnt pse pse36 pts rdrand rdtscp sep smep smx ss sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 tm tm2 tpr_shadow 
           tsc tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid x2apic xsave xsaveopt xtopology xtpr 
Graphics:  Card-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 
           chip ID: 8086:0166 
           Display: server: X.Org 1.16.4 driver: intel unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
           resolution: 1600x900~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ivybridge Mobile x86/MMX/SSE2 v: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.2 compat-v: 3.0 
           direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Card-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:1e20 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.83-antix.1-686-smp-pae 
Network:   Card-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k port: 5080 
           bus ID: 00:19.0 chip ID: 8086:1502 
           IF: eth2 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Card-2: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus ID: 03:00.0 
           chip ID: 8086:0085 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
           IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter> 
           IP v6: <filter> scope: link 
           WAN IP: <filter> 
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 298.09 GiB used: 75.12 GiB (25.2%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Hitachi model: HGST HTS545032A7E380 size: 298.09 GiB speed: 3.0 Gb/s 
           serial: <filter> rev: AC90 scheme: MBR 
           Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: Optiarc model: DVD RW AD-7740H rev: 1.S1 dev-links: cdrom,cdrw,dvd,dvdrw 
           Features: speed: 24 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram 
           state: running 
RAID:      Message: No RAID data was found. 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 7.56 GiB used: 5.49 GiB (72.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 label: antiX15root 
           uuid: 685d85b2-6651-49ed-928c-d5e17f70f500 
           ID-2: /home size: 67.16 GiB used: 3.39 GiB (5.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 label: antiX15home 
           uuid: 8d150b09-c903-4b7d-9326-7b88e7ac84f2 
           ID-3: /media/_data1 size: 118.34 GiB used: 46.66 GiB (39.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5 label: /data1 
           uuid: 8c692b69-46f7-48ef-abc9-e6963655e259 
           ID-4: /media/_data2 size: 96.00 GiB used: 19.59 GiB (20.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6 label: /data2 
           uuid: b76696e8-11ba-4177-970b-0d237aa5a8ae 
           ID-5: swap-1 size: 3.91 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda3 label: N/A 
           uuid: 45720f5c-3d28-4e6d-a06d-9ce4a9fe5370 
Unmounted: Message: No unmounted partitions found. 
USB:       Hub: 1:1 usb: 2.0 type: Full speed (or root) hub chip ID: 1d6b:0002 
           Hub: 1:2 usb: 2.0 type: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub chip ID: 8087:0024 
           Device-1: Acer bus ID: 1:3 usb: 2.0 type: Video chip ID: 5986:02d5 
           Hub: 2:1 usb: 2.0 type: Full speed (or root) hub chip ID: 1d6b:0002 
           Hub: 2:2 usb: 2.0 type: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub chip ID: 8087:0024 
           Hub: 3:1 usb: 2.0 type: Full speed (or root) hub chip ID: 1d6b:0002 
           Hub: 4:1 usb: 3.0 type: Full speed (or root) hub chip ID: 1d6b:0003 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 39.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 
Repos:     Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
           1: deb http://repo.antixlinux.com/jessie jessie main nosystemd
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://ftp.gr.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/palemoon.list 
           1: deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/stevenpusser/Debian_8.0/ /
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/siduction.list 
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Processes: CPU top: 5 
           1: cpu: 27.5% command: firefox-esr pid: 2768 mem: 270.7 MiB (1.6%) 
           2: cpu: 19.0% command: inxi started by: perl pid: 3276 mem: 13.1 MiB (0.0%) 
           3: cpu: 7.6% command: x pid: 2313 mem: 34.0 MiB (0.2%) 
           4: cpu: 1.0% command: roxterm pid: 3238 mem: 18.6 MiB (0.1%) 
           5: cpu: 0.5% command: bash pid: 3241 mem: 4.33 MiB (0.0%) 
           Memory top: 5 
           1: mem: 270.7 MiB (1.6%) command: firefox-esr pid: 2768 cpu: 27.5% 
           2: mem: 34.0 MiB (0.2%) command: x pid: 2313 cpu: 7.6% 
           3: mem: 25.4 MiB (0.1%) command: python pid: 2707 cpu: 0.0% 
           4: mem: 23.1 MiB (0.1%) command: spacefm pid: 2630 cpu: 0.0% 
           5: mem: 20.6 MiB (0.1%) command: volumeicon pid: 2706 cpu: 0.0% 
Info:      Processes: 181 Uptime: 5m Memory: 15.56 GiB used: 313.0 MiB (2.0%) Init: SysVinit v: 2.88 
           runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 4.9.2 alt: 4.8/4.9 Shell: bash v: 4.3.30 running in: roxterm 
           inxi: 3.0.10

You will notice my gpu details are in that readout. Thanks for the hardware report.