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Ubuntu drivers / packages for i7-6700

Asked by Maxim Grigoriev

I use PC based on Z170 Motherboard and Skylake i7 6700 CPU. I installed 64-bit Ubuntu 15.10 (4.2.0-27-generic). What drivers, packages, tools updates, e.t.c. should I install to fully utilize all the features of this Hardware ?

Thanks,
-- Maxim

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

What issues are you seeing in the system?

Everything working OK? OK resolution and sound etc?

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Maxim Grigoriev (maxim2405) said : 		#2

The issue is I downloaded and installed latest Ubuntu on the computer I assembled based on Z170 Mather board and Skylake CPU. It will all be a part of our Embedded System project. Now, I have to figure out what else should be installed to fully utilize all the features of the latest and greatest Intel Skylake 6700 CPU. The Ubuntu 15.10 kernel is 4.2. But, latest Intel Graphics Stack Release 2015Q4 suggests to switch to 4.3 kernel, which is not a part of official Ubuntu distribution yet (as far as I understand). I am new to this kind of approach, when there is no industrial quality product, and people have to chase information to get all the pieces of the puzzle together by themselves. So I am learning.

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#3

Please read this:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/ubuntu-16-04-lts-xenial-xerus-now-officially-powered-by-linux-kernel-4-4-lts-499744.shtml

I also have a new PC containing the Sky Lake architecture.

Even though Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is not officially released yet, I had
better luck booting my PC with this version instead:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/daily-live/current/

Keep in mind that Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is not released yet and is probably
full of bugs. So any issues should be reported as a bug and not in this
Answers section of the forum.

But maybe your desktop PC will work better with the current unfinished build of
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Power management still does not work correctly on my
Sky Lake PC when using Ubuntu 16.04.

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Maxim Grigoriev (maxim2405) said : 		#4

Thanks much. Your suggestions are very helpful.
We will target Ubuntu 16.04 LTS as a base for our project.