
To permanently fix the issue with NetworkManager, add this to your NetworkManager config. However, this behavior can be prevented (temporarily) by installing iw and running the following command as root: When this happens, it is not visible with lspci and rebooting is a way to get it back on. Since September 2018, Surface Book 2 WiFi may power off during use. Requires the installation of the linux-firmware-marvell package for the wireless network interface to be recognized by the kernel. See Advanced Linux Sound Architecture#Disabling auto mute on startup for the fix. Surface Book 2 devices exhibit a hissing noise at times. It is recognized as a mouse click otherwise. Only works in a Window Manager or Desktop Environment that has full support for it. Using terminus-font with 32pt looks good on Surface Book 2 on the vconsole (add FONT=ter-m32n to /etc/nf after installing).

The cause is that, apparently, the fan cannot be controlled automatically, nor through nvidia-smi or nvidia-settings, even when the Coolbits option is set to 8.īecause of the screen's resolution, the console font is barely readable - refer to Linux console#Fonts on how to change them. The reason, as reported by nvidia-smi, is software thermal throttling. Without the kernel ( linux-surface), there was a bug which causes it to be effectively useless because when a load is put on the Nvidia graphics hardware, it immediately and severely throttles down to around 139MHz. The Nvidia 10 cards in the Surface Book 2 Performance Base are recognized by the kernel and supported by nvidia and nvidia-dkms drivers. The standard xf86-video-intel driver works with the Surface Book devices. The UEFI menu will appear within a few seconds.īooting from USB is possible by reordering boot devices in the UEFI setup.

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