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Comment by kobeya | Hacker News Reader

Any Razer engineers here? I'm a proud owner that would like to work with you directly to fix some of the remaining driver support issues.

Also, has anyone gotten the Razer Blade to work with the Razer Core thunderbolt 3 expansion chassis? On default Ubuntu 16.04 it picks up the thunderbolt hub, but nothing underneath. This would be an amazing laptop for machine learning if I could supercharge it with a Titan-X.

Also, consider a 32GB build for us developers...

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I saw a demo of someone getting the external video card working, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7kUgkXeTDw

But it required patching BIOS to allow the user to toggle some legacy settings.

Interesting. I'll look into that. Thank you.

I'm not sure that is something that could be "fixed" in 16.04 unless you can convince the Ubuntu kernel maintainers to backport patches for PCI-E hotplug / thunderbolt support.

I'm running a kernel that supports PCI-E hotplug & thunderbolt. That's not the issue.

FWIW the kernel in 16.04 does support that. But I've tried with newer kernels too.

LTS releases (like 16.04) get hardware enablement stacks where X/kernel/etc gets upgraded to the versions from the non-LTS releases. So if you make it work with ubuntu 17.04 for example it will trickle down to the LTS users. Makes LTS a much more attractive solution on the desktop. I've stopped bothering with the intermediate ones.

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