Does anyone have any experience with F18 on a Dell XPS13 with the FHD 1080p display? What does this Full High-Definition 1080p mean anyway? I guess my question is: is this the real resolution or some virtual resolution not obtained via linux.
I am interested in this because it claims to have a 1080 vertical resolution (not sure if this is accurate) in an Ultrabook.
Note that Dell sells this with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (for a price more than with MS Windoze).
http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd.aspx
Ranjan
On 05/17/2013 01:56 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
I am interested in this because it claims to have a 1080 vertical resolution (not sure if this is accurate) in an Ultrabook.
1080p is 1920x1080, so you'll get your vertical resolution (albeit at the cost of very small pixels).
On Fri, 17 May 2013 16:04:55 -0500 Ian Pilcher arequipeno@gmail.com wrote:
On 05/17/2013 01:56 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
I am interested in this because it claims to have a 1080 vertical resolution (not sure if this is accurate) in an Ultrabook.
1080p is 1920x1080, so you'll get your vertical resolution (albeit at the cost of very small pixels).
Thanks! So, this hoopla about FHD ("Full High Definition") is not just some made-up hoopla and really provides 1920x1080?
Does anyone have any experience running F on this ultrabook? Since Ubuntu has no issues, I doubt that this would be a problem, but I guess it does not hurt to check.
Thanks again!
Best wishes, Ranjan
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On 5-17-13 16:23:12 Ranjan Maitra wrote:
Does anyone have any experience running F on this ultrabook? Since Ubuntu has no issues, I doubt that this would be a problem, but I guess it does not hurt to check.
I just bought an XPS13 and installed F18 on it, replacing the shipped OS.
Backlight control is not working, but I developed a very simple work-around that re-enables it under Fedora.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=928688
This will probably be fixed in some future kernel update.
I installed the KDE desktop and its power management is configured to hibernate upon critically low battery. I had to disable that because, apparently, hibernate is not working and KDE somehow thinks the battery is critically low after wake-up from sleep sometimes even when it isn't. I didn't try to debug that because I never really want hibernate. There's probably a bug in KDE power management.
Sleep/wake works fine.
I purchased a mini display port to VGA adapter to be able to project at the office and that works fine. Just unplug it *before* suspending the laptop because there seems to be a bug that freezes the machine upon wake-up, if you do not.
You need to create a USB boot disk from the Fedora ISO and enable boot from USB to install. There are plenty of references on the Web for doing that.
It's a very fine laptop.
Thanks Garry - I've added a link to that Bugzilla entry to the post I've made documenting my experience with this laptop:
http://technicaltally.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/fedora-18-on-dell-xps-13-deve...
I agree it's an excellent machine.
Adam
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Garry T. Williams gtwilliams@gmail.com wrote:
On 5-17-13 16:23:12 Ranjan Maitra wrote:
Does anyone have any experience running F on this ultrabook? Since Ubuntu has no issues, I doubt that this would be a problem, but I guess it does not hurt to check.
I just bought an XPS13 and installed F18 on it, replacing the shipped OS.
Backlight control is not working, but I developed a very simple work-around that re-enables it under Fedora.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=928688This will probably be fixed in some future kernel update.
I installed the KDE desktop and its power management is configured to hibernate upon critically low battery. I had to disable that because, apparently, hibernate is not working and KDE somehow thinks the battery is critically low after wake-up from sleep sometimes even when it isn't. I didn't try to debug that because I never really want hibernate. There's probably a bug in KDE power management.
Sleep/wake works fine.
I purchased a mini display port to VGA adapter to be able to project at the office and that works fine. Just unplug it *before* suspending the laptop because there seems to be a bug that freezes the machine upon wake-up, if you do not.
You need to create a USB boot disk from the Fedora ISO and enable boot from USB to install. There are plenty of references on the Web for doing that.
It's a very fine laptop.
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On Wed, 22 May 2013 13:53:52 +0100 Adam Huffman adam.huffman@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Garry - I've added a link to that Bugzilla entry to the post I've made documenting my experience with this laptop:
http://technicaltally.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/fedora-18-on-dell-xps-13-deve...
I agree it's an excellent machine.
Adam
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Garry T. Williams gtwilliams@gmail.com wrote:
On 5-17-13 16:23:12 Ranjan Maitra wrote:
Does anyone have any experience running F on this ultrabook? Since Ubuntu has no issues, I doubt that this would be a problem, but I guess it does not hurt to check.
I just bought an XPS13 and installed F18 on it, replacing the shipped OS.
Backlight control is not working, but I developed a very simple work-around that re-enables it under Fedora.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=928688This will probably be fixed in some future kernel update.
I installed the KDE desktop and its power management is configured to hibernate upon critically low battery. I had to disable that because, apparently, hibernate is not working and KDE somehow thinks the battery is critically low after wake-up from sleep sometimes even when it isn't. I didn't try to debug that because I never really want hibernate. There's probably a bug in KDE power management.
Sleep/wake works fine.
I purchased a mini display port to VGA adapter to be able to project at the office and that works fine. Just unplug it *before* suspending the laptop because there seems to be a bug that freezes the machine upon wake-up, if you do not.
You need to create a USB boot disk from the Fedora ISO and enable boot from USB to install. There are plenty of references on the Web for doing that.
It's a very fine laptop.
--
Btw, where is this XPS13 manufactured?
Many thanks, Ranjan
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On 05/22/2013 05:31 AM, Garry T. Williams wrote:
Backlight control is not working, but I developed a very simple work-around that re-enables it under Fedora.
Oddly, I do not see that bug under GNOME. Backlight controls work fine for me with an unmodified configuration.
I installed the KDE desktop and its power management is configured to hibernate upon critically low battery. I had to disable that because, apparently, hibernate is not working
You probably still have Secure Boot enabled. Hibernate and Secure Boot are incompatible, at least under Linux.
and KDE somehow thinks the battery is critically low after wake-up from sleep sometimes even when it isn't. I didn't try to debug that because I never really want hibernate. There's probably a bug in KDE power management.
I haven't seen any weird behavior under GNOME, so it may in fact be a KDE bug.
It's a very fine laptop.
X.org has a bug that causes repeated 'Pg up' or 'Pg dn' key press events pretty frequently. It's extremely bothersome, to the point that I'm considering selling my XPS 13 and looking for a laptop with an actual 'pg up' and 'pg dn' key rather than a Fn+key combination.
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