New XPS 15 (9560) compatibility?

freejack said:

Sure thing. Thanks.

FYI, need to emulate Linux to get screen brightness controls working as per 9360 guide.

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This looks better (big ACPI patching mistake fixed). But since your EC may be in a bad state due to wrongly patched ACPI, did you remember to do an EC reset?

And do you actually mean "screen brightness controls" or really "screen brightness keys"?

RehabMan said:

This looks better (big ACPI patching mistake fixed). But since your EC may be in a bad state due to wrongly patched ACPI, did you remember to do an EC reset?

And do you actually mean "screen brightness controls" or really "screen brightness keys"?

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The brightness keys. Did another EC reset (removed battery for two minutes and held power button down). Still happens although it took almost 45 minutes before it did.

freejack said:

The brightness keys.

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It is because of the way you constructed your brightness key patching in ACPI. You did it in such a way that it requires Linux emulation for _OSI. Not sure why you would do that...

Did another EC reset (removed battery for two minutes and held power button down). Still happens although it took almost 45 minutes before it did.

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You might want to try emulating a version of Windows for _OSI instead of Linux.
Just something to try...

RehabMan said:

You might want to try emulating a version of Windows for _OSI instead of Linux.
Just something to try...

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Gave it a go. Alas, it was not meant to be.

freejack said:

Gave it a go. Alas, it was not meant to be.

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What was the result?
Which version of Windows did you emulate?

RehabMan said:

What was the result?
Which version of Windows did you emulate?

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2015, 2013, 2012. Unexpected byte error for all of them at about the same frequency.

Would like to add I'm still here. Last night I did some tests. I recompiled dsdt and ssdt 0-12 to error free. Fixed all ssdt, only 12 needed fixing using rehabman's ssdt clean up fix errors patch.

I tried only using these patches and still same problem. Did this b/c I though maybe it had to do with the keyboard and osi_linux fixes.
Rename DSM to XDSM
Fix Mutex
HPET Fix
IRQ Fix
RTC Fix
Skylake LPC

I wonder if I work on fixing all the warnings it may help? I also saw that Piker updated his ssdtPRGen scrip to include Kaby Lake although I'm not sure how that would help us with touchpad. Our power management already is working well with sleep and wake.

blazinsmokey said:

I wonder if I work on fixing all the warnings it may help? I also saw that Piker updated his ssdtPRGen scrip to include Kaby Lake although I'm not sure how that would help us with touchpad. Our power management already is working well with sleep and wake.

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That's not going to help. I've tried using the SSDT.aml generated by piker but it removes the sleep sliders and the laptop never goes to sleep. It does boot up faster thought. Did not help with the trackpad issue.

Just curious, on average, how quickly do you lose the trackpad?

I made a few more changes to the driver if you feel like trying. Should be a bit better than the last version. It's what I'm using right now.

freejack said:

Just curious, on average, how quickly do you lose the trackpad?
I made a few more changes to the driver if you feel like trying. Should be a bit better than the last version. It's what I'm using right now.

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Cool, yea I'll try the new driver in a bit. Since using all the SSDT, it seems to go out less or at least less noticeable, hard to tell with your altered driver, which is awesome btw. Will try the new one soon.

Edit: I also did a test last night, battery was at 66-67% and after 14 hours of sleep, I checked it only went down to 3-4%. That's pretty damn good right? I haven't had a laptop in forever so I'm not sure.

blazinsmokey said:

Edit: I also did a test last night, battery was at 66-67% and after 14 hours of sleep, I checked it only went down to 3-4%. That's pretty damn good right? I haven't had a laptop in forever so I'm not sure.

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Sounds about right