Razer Blade Stealth 2020 Issues

Hey!

Hopefully I’m posting this in the right place. My 2020 Razer Blade Stealth (4K model) has issues that I believe are related to the graphics drivers.

Firstly, right after install (with nonfree) in order to actually boot acpi_osci="Windows 2019" is required. I’m unsure if other values will work - they might - but that one gets us into the UI. Note that this only works on the i3 version. I’m pretty sure GDM isn’t happy about… something, with the GNOME distribution, but it won’t boot for me in any case, no matter what settings I try :woman_shrugging:

Note that booting takes a long time (a few minutes), as does shutting down. Throughout this process these errors can be seen:

[drm:drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_dependencies [drm_kms_helper]] *ERROR* [CRTC:91:pipe A] flip_done timed out
[drm:drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_flip_done [drm_kms_helper]] *ERROR* [CRTC:91:pipe A] flip_done timed out

Which I believe are the cause of the slowness, and related to the i915 driver. I’m going to try disabling the intel driver and just using nvidia later!

@durzo mentions this in this thread: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/drm-atomic-helper-flip-done-timed-out/17858
@tau is having a similar issue in this thread: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/laptop-is-not-waking-from-suspend/14571

Issue here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues/2414

Anyway, otherwise my clean install seems pretty functional! It’s using video-linux and is pretty outdated though.

After an upgrade and reboot, the display is 800x600. It can be changed with xrandr so not a huge issue.

I upgraded to kernel 5.8 and installed the nvidia prime drivers (version 450), and this didn’t solve any issues.

Otherwise, there’s a thread on the Razer Insider forum here: https://insider.razer.com/index.php?threads/new-2020-stealth-linux-support.57151/. Note that most people there are trying Ubuntu, which when I tried didn’t have properly functional graphics drivers + couldn’t control display brightness.

I’m not yet able to include links until discourse trusts me more, hence… the code block links.

From what I’ve gathered we’re just going to have to wait until i915 upstream has resolved the issues, but :crossed_fingers: there’s an alternative configuration that might work

Hello,

Thanks for detailed information and the links provided so far. From the arch wiki page, it seems there is a required patch for the kernel in order to make it properly working
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Razer_Blade
Not sure that wiki is quite up todate with the 2020 model, but i suppose the difference is minimal between the models, and the patch required is here

maybe @philm and/or @nightmare-2021 know more about and can include it for a test?

Hopefully and probably the arch wiki is helpful and you saw it already, but was worth mentioning it, as might
give you the possibility to narrow down the issues and maybe make you share more finding.

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Thank you!

I believe that patch is an alternative to the recommended BIOS updates for the older systems, there doesn’t seem to be any available for me atm.

The Arch Wiki has certainly been helpful though! I’ll continue digging into it and share anything useful I find, but in the meantime if anyone has any ideas I’d love to hear them :slight_smile:

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Adding intremap=off seems to resolve all of these issues!

See: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues/2414

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