• The most recent live cds use an older i915 driver that causes an unrecoverable black screen when booting in any mode. Add nomodeset to the kernel boot line.
• Be sure to install using ethernet, since there are no wireless drivers out of the box on 13.08.

Install a kernel >= 3.11.6 and make sure CONFIG_IWLMVM is enabled. the iwlwifi module should be automatically loaded and wifi just works.

Mostly just works.

There are two physical sound cards, both driven by the snd-hda-intel driver. The HDMI card is always detected first, and the analog (speakers and headphones) second. Reorder these to make the analog the default by /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf to contain the following

options snd-hda-intel index=1,0

KDE defaults to letting the multimedia volume keys (Fn+F1/F2/F3) control the HDMI card by default. Switch this to the analog card by opening KMix and setting Settings→Select Master Channel…→Built-in Audio Analog Stereo.

After installing and upgrading to latest i915 driver, remove nomodeset from the kernel boot options. This will enable screen brightness control and fix sleep/resume.

Install bumblebee and enable the service to use optimus. Run programs using optirun to enable the discrete graphics card.

Nice feature, the screen brightness can be turned all the way down to zero, which turns the screen and backlight off.

Because of the high resolution, text will be very small by default. Change the DPI size in KDE to make all KDE applications well-behaved (konsole, plasma).

Still working on fixing non-KDE programs such as chrome.

* Enable the bluetooth

systemctl enable bluetooth
systemctl start bluetooth

* Use bluetoothctl to enable the controller, scan and pair with devices, and connect

# Start the shell
bluetoothctl -a
# Turn on the controller
power on
agent on
default-agent
# Scan for devices
scan on
# List available devices
devices
# Pair with a device
pair $mac
# Connect to the device
connect $mac

The error message:

Nov 24 12:33:22 serenity.jellybean.sihnon.net dbus[1878]: [system] Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.81" (uid=0 pid=10758 comm="/usr/libexec/bluetooth/bluetoothd --noplugin=sap ") interface="org.bluez.MediaEndpoint1" member="SelectConfiguration" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.49" (uid=10001 pid=2994 comm="/usr/bin/pulseaudio --start ")
Nov 24 12:33:22 serenity.jellybean.sihnon.net bluetoothd[10758]: Endpoint replied with an error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied

is fixed by amending /etc/dbus-1/system.d/bluetooth.conf to match:

  <policy user="root">
    <allow own="org.bluez"/>
    <!-- Add this line below -->
    <allow send_type="method_call"/>
    <allow send_destination="org.bluez"/>
    <allow send_interface="org.bluez.Agent"/>
    <allow send_interface="org.bluez.HandsfreeAgent"/>
    <allow send_interface="org.bluez.MediaEndpoint"/>
    <allow send_interface="org.bluez.MediaPlayer"/>
    <allow send_interface="org.bluez.Watcher"/>
    <allow send_interface="org.bluez.ThermometerWatcher"/>
  </policy>

(Info taken from: https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/410722-how-do-i-fix-bluetooth-permissions-after-last-dbus-update)

Set the preference for certain types of audio (e.g. Music) to route through the bluetooth device when present using the Multimedia applet in KDE's control centre.

Out of the box, single touch input works but no gestures. This means you can touch to click, and drag to select. No scrolling, or pinch-to-zoom.

Install and run touchegg to get multitouch gestures. touchegg, touchegg-gui (configuration tool), and dependencies (utouch-{evemu,frame,grail,geis}) are in the sihnon portage overlay and community entropy repo.

Just works.