HP Spectre x360 (2015)

Installation

The 2016-07-04 LiveDVD boots successfully and supports most of the hardware.

Linux Configuration

While the Linux 4.5.2 kernel from the LiveDVD can get things started, here are some more customized configs:

• 4.9.9-gentoo

Storage

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device a802 (rev 01) (prog-if 02 [NVM Express])

KERNEL

Device Drivers  --->
        <*> NVM Express block device

For details see NVMe

Video

Intel Corporation Sky Lake Integrated Graphics (rev 07) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

KERNEL

Device Drivers  --->
        Graphics support  --->
            <*> /dev/agpgart (AGP Support)  --->
                <*>   Intel 440LX/BX/GX, I8xx and E7x05 chipset support
            <*> Intel 8xx/9xx/G3x/G4x/HD Graphic

For details see Intel article.

Wireless

Intel Corporation Wireless 7265 (rev 61)

KERNEL

Device Drivers  --->
        [*] Network device support  --->
            [*]   Wireless LAN  --->
                  <M>     Intel Wireless WiFi Next Gen AGN - Wireless-N/Advanced-N/Ultimate-N (iwlwifi)
                  <M>       Intel Wireless WiFi MVM Firmware support

For details see the iwlwifi article.

Audio

Intel Corporation Device 9d70 (rev 21)

KERNEL

Device Drivers  --->
        <*> Sound card support  --->
            <*>   Advanced Linux Sound Architecture  --->
                  HD-Audio  --->
                      <*> HD Audio PCI
                  (2048) Pre-allocated buffer size for HD-audio driver

Bluetooth

KERNEL

-*- Networking support  --->
        <*>   Bluetooth subsystem support  --->
                  Bluetooth device drivers  --->
                  [*]   Intel AG6XX protocol support

For details see Bluetooth

Card Reader

Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS5227 PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01)

KERNEL

Device Drivers  --->
            Multifunction device drivers  --->
                <*> Realtek PCI-E card reader

Touchscreen

KERNEL

Device Drivers  --->
            HID support  --->
                    Special HID drivers  --->
                        <M> HID Multitouch panels

Accelerometer

KERNEL

Device Drivers  --->
        <*> Industrial I/O support  --->
                    Accelerometers  --->
                        <*> HID Accelerometers 3D

Unknown keys

Brightness keys

Installing the x11-apps/xbacklight package will let the laptops keys adjust the screen brightness. Otherwise the following message are still emitted.

This the is F2 key to decrease screen brightness:

 kernel: atkbd serio0: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xab on isa0060/serio0).
 kernel: atkbd serio0: Use 'setkeycodes e02b <keycode>' to make it known.

This is from the F3 key to increase screen brightness:

 atkbd serio0: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xab on isa0060/serio0).
 atkbd serio0: Use 'setkeycodes e02b <keycode>' to make it known.

Tablet vs Laptop mode

When opening the lid for tablet mode:

 intel-vbtn INT33D6:00: unknown event index 0xcc
 atkbd serio0: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xd8 on isa0060/serio0).
 atkbd serio0: Use 'setkeycodes e058 <keycode>' to make it known.

When returning to laptop mode from tablet mode:

 intel-vbtn INT33D6:00: unknown event index 0xcd
 atkbd serio0: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xd7 on isa0060/serio0).
 atkbd serio0: Use 'setkeycodes e057 <keycode>' to make it known.