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. -- Garry T. Williams -- users mailing list users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org

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-d... I agree it's an excellent machine. Adam On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Garry T. Williams <gtwilliams(a)gmail.com&gt; 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=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. > > --

I am interested in this because it claims to have a 1080 vertical resolution (not sure if this is accurate) in an Ultrabook.