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This is a collection of my notes about ironing out weird quirks with this laptop and Ubuntu. When I first got it, I think it was one of only two or three Kaby Lake Laptops available and there were loads of annoyances, thankfully things are now a lot better!

Trackpad

The trackpad was initially detected as the wrong thing. I found the solution here, specifically the bit about blacklisting the designware driver:

Add /etc/modprobe.d/synaptics.conf with this line:

blacklist i2c-designware-platform

Hibernation

Needed to install the latest Ubuntu kernel to get hibernation working properly.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/119080/how-to-update-kernel-to-the-latest-mainline-version-without-any-distro-upgrade

Firmware

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