Mini guide

Fixes booting kernel for i915 video chipset

If kernel starting and boot screen black then change kernel grub boot options  i915.modeset=1 to i915.modeset=0

From boot grub menu enter “e” key and edit kernel boot line and press F10 for boot.

Fixed NVIDIA binary driver - version 340.107 for kernel 4.20

• for users nvidia-legacy card

It is strongly recommended to use the driver only from the PPA Linux WIP-Kernel team:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wip-kernel/nvidia-340
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-340

Driver version - nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 (340.107-0ubuntu3)

Fixes long start system if used nvidia drivers

If the system starts for a long time and there is an entry in the system log:

systemd-udevd[533]: Process '/bin/systemctl stop --no-block nvidia-persistenced' failed with exit code 5

Complete the following steps:

Go to /lib/udev/rules.d/
Open as root the config file 71-nvidia.rules

Comment as posted here below the lines:

# Start and stop nvidia-persistenced on power on and power off
# respectively
#ACTION=="add" DEVPATH=="/bus/acpi/drivers/NVIDIA ACPI Video Driver" SUBSYSTEM=="drivers" RUN+="/bin/systemctl start --no-block nvidia-persistenced.service"
#ACTION=="remove" DEVPATH=="/bus/acpi/drivers/NVIDIA ACPI Video Driver" SUBSYSTEM=="drivers" RUN+="/bin/systemctl stop --no-block nvidia-persistenced"

# Start and stop nvidia-persistenced when loading and unloading
# the driver
#ACTION=="add" DEVPATH=="/module/nvidia" SUBSYSTEM=="module" RUN+="/bin/systemctl start --no-block nvidia-persistenced.service"
#ACTION=="remove" DEVPATH=="/module/nvidia" SUBSYSTEM=="module" RUN+="/bin/systemctl stop --no-block nvidia-persistenced"

Now you can restart and check dmesg log file.

Alsa v1.1.8 PPA

It is strongly recommended to use the packeges only from the PPA Linux WIP-Kernel team:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wip-kernel/alsa-lib
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt dist-upgrade -y

Fixed VirtualBox packages 5.2.22 for kernel 4.20

It is strongly recommended to use the packeges only from the PPA Linux WIP-Kernel team:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wip-kernel/virtualbox
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox

Package version - VirtualBox-5.2.22 (5.2.22-dfsg-3)

Fixes work and build modules for kernel 4.20

Force set HalfDuplex and disable flow control for RTL8102e

When you start the kernel phy enables full duplex and flow control rx / tx for r8169 module. Turn off flow control in use ethtool no possibility.

[  +6,268667] libphy: r8169: probed
[  +0,000464] r8169 0000:13:00.0 eth0: RTL8102e, f0:4d:a2:cb:b8:f3, XID
24e, IRQ 30
[  +0,023024] RTL8201CP Ethernet r8169-1300:00: attached PHY driver
[RTL8201CP Ethernet] (mii_bus:phy_addr=r8169-1300:00, irq=IGNORE)
[  +1,673582] r8169 0000:13:00.0 eth0: Link is Up - 100Mbps/Full - flow
control rx/tx

If you turn off and turn on the ethernet cable, the driver disables the flow control and fullduplex.

[  +5,143360] r8169 0000:13:00.0 eth0: Link is Down
[  +2,530738] libphy: r8169: probed
[  +0,000480] r8169 0000:13:00.0 eth0: RTL8102e, f0:4d:a2:cb:b8:f3, XID
24e, IRQ 30
[  +0,023594] RTL8201CP Ethernet r8169-1300:00: attached PHY driver
[RTL8201CP Ethernet] (mii_bus:phy_addr=r8169-1300:00, irq=IGNORE)
[  +1,705550] r8169 0000:13:00.0 eth0: Link is Up - 100Mbps/Half - flow
control off

This behavior of the driver does not allow the network card to operate at full speed after a restart or first start of the system.

Use module parameter rtl8201_half=1

Add to /etc/modprobe.d/realtek.conf

options realtek rtl8201_half=1

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="noresume psi=1 acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor intel_iommu=on swiotlb=32768 apparmor=0 net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="systemd.gpt_auto=0 zswap.enabled=1 zswap.compressor=lz4 zswap.max_pool_percent=15 pcie_acs_override=downstream"

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="zswap.compressor=lz4 zswap.max_pool_percent=15"

Add to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules:

lz4
lz4_compress

vm.laptop_mode = 0

vm.overcommit_ratio = 200 
vm.overcommit_memory = 2

# System open file limit
fs.file-max = 243968

# Core dump suidsafe
kernel.core_uses_pid = 1
kernel.core_pattern = /tmp/core-%e-%s-%u-%g-%p-%t
fs.suid_dumpable = 2

kernel.printk = 4 4 1 7
kernel.sysrq = 0

# Network
net.ipv4.conf.all.accept_redirects = 0
net.ipv4.conf.all.secure_redirects = 0
net.ipv4.conf.all.send_redirects = 0
net.ipv4.tcp_max_orphans = 65536
net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout = 10
net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_time = 1800
net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_intvl = 15
net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_probes = 5
net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog = 4096
net.ipv4.tcp_syn_retries = 3
net.ipv4.tcp_synack_retries = 1
net.ipv4.tcp_mem = 50576   64768   98152
net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 4096 87380 16777216
net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 4096 65536 16777216
net.ipv4.tcp_orphan_retries = 0
net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies = 1
net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_max = 16777216
net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps = 1
net.ipv4.tcp_sack = 1
net.ipv4.tcp_congestion_control = yeah
net.ipv4.tcp_no_metrics_save = 1
net.ipv4.route.flush = 1
net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1
net.ipv4.conf.lo.rp_filter = 1
net.ipv4.conf.eth0.rp_filter = 1
net.ipv4.conf.wlan0.rp_filter = 1
net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1
net.ipv4.conf.all.accept_source_route = 0
net.ipv4.conf.lo.accept_source_route = 0
net.ipv4.conf.eth0.accept_source_route = 0
net.ipv4.conf.wlan0.accept_source_route = 0
net.ipv4.conf.default.accept_source_route = 0
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65535
net.ipv4.tcp_tw_reuse = 1
net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling = 1
net.ipv4.tcp_rfc1337 = 1
net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0
net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts = 1
net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_all = 1
net.ipv4.icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses = 1
net.core.somaxconn = 65535
net.core.netdev_max_backlog = 4096
net.core.rmem_default = 65536
net.core.wmem_default = 65536
net.core.rmem_max = 16777216
net.core.wmem_max = 16777216
fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 16777216
#
net.ipv4.tcp_slow_start_after_idle = 0
net.ipv4.ip_default_ttl = 63
#
net.ipv4.tcp_ecn = 1
net.core.default_qdisc = cake
#
kernel.perf_cpu_time_max_percent = 100
#
# IO shedulers
vm.dirty_background_bytes = 67108864
vm.dirty_bytes = 134217728
#
# Huge Page
vm.nr_hugepages = 16
vm.nr_overcommit_hugepages = 16
vm.hugetlb_shm_group = 1001
#
kernel.yama.ptrace_scope = 2
#
net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_helper = 1
#
# LKRG
lkrg.clean_message = 0
lkrg.log_level = 3
#
# For Chromium sandbox use!
kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone = 0

wireless-power off

[connection]
wifi.powersave = 2

[connection]
wifi.powersave = 2

[device]
wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=no