{"id":407,"date":"2019-02-18T16:34:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timallen.name\/?p=407"},"modified":"2019-03-20T00:15:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T00:15:07","slug":"linux-5-0-0-rc6-fixed-my-lockup-when-using-usb-c-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timallen.name\/index.php\/2019\/02\/18\/linux-5-0-0-rc6-fixed-my-lockup-when-using-usb-c-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux 5.0.0-rc6+ fixed my lockup when using USB-C video"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I had a really vexing problem with my XPS 13 9370. When I used it with an Apple USB-C to HDMI dongle or a Dell X5 dock (which has HDMI, Ethernet and some other devices), it would randomly lock-up. It wasn&#8217;t a hard lock-up (just video I think) as I could ssh to it over the network and do an orderly shutdown, though, I could not kill Xorg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I headed over to GitHub and cloned the latest Linux 5 source, configured (with the help of \/boot\/config-4.15.0-1033-oem), built (takes about 15-20 minutes), and installed (you have to compress the initrd,img initially). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s fixed, with no side effects (for me)!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am not a Dell fanboy. &#8230;and ordering this thing (w\/ Ubuntu pre-installed) was unpleasant. &#8230;and I have no illusions of support (from India). &#8230;but it continues to be the best laptop I&#8217;ve ever owned. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In comparison to my spouse&#8217;s Mac Book, yes, it&#8217;s a little bulkier, but it&#8217;s got 3 USB-C (yes, they will all charge) ports, about the same battery life, and lacks Apple&#8217;s dodgy keyboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<code><p>make -j8<\/p><p>make -j8 modules<\/p><p>make modules_install<\/p><p>mkinitramfs -c xz -o initrd.img-5.0.0-rc8+ 5.0.0-rc8+<\/p><p>update-grub<\/p><\/code>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a really vexing problem with my XPS 13 9370. When I used it with an Apple USB-C to HDMI dongle or a Dell X5 dock (which has HDMI, Ethernet and some other devices), it would randomly lock-up. It wasn&#8217;t a hard lock-up (just video I think) as I could ssh to it over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/timallen.name\/index.php\/2019\/02\/18\/linux-5-0-0-rc6-fixed-my-lockup-when-using-usb-c-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Linux 5.0.0-rc6+ fixed my lockup when using USB-C video<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-programming","category-unix-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timallen.name\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timallen.name\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timallen.name\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timallen.name\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timallen.name\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/timallen.name\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421,"href":"https:\/\/timallen.name\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timallen.name\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timallen.name\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timallen.name\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}