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Hello All,<br>
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I am trying to install Fedora 18 Beta x86+64 on my Dell XPS 15z, and
would appreciate any help. <br>
<br>
I am running this laptop on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. This needs the
following parameters on the 3.2.34 and later kernels to make the
screen work:<br>
<b>acpi_backlight=vendor dell_laptop.backlight=0</b><br>
<br>
On earlier kernels, it was solved with;<br>
<b>acpi=noirq</b><br>
<br>
The default installation does of Fedora `8 not work, it displays a
noveau error message and hangs.<br>
<br>
<b>nouveau 0000:01:00.0: 0xD581: i2c wr fail: -6</b><br>
<br>
It went beyond this just once (not sure how/why), and failed with
the following;<br>
<br>
<b>no medium found on /dev/sr0</b><b><br>
</b><b>dracut: FAIL : Failed to mount block device of live image</b><br>
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Questions<br>
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How do I get to edit the kernel parameters at install time, so that
I can try the acpi switches ?<br>
Do I need to give additional kernel parameters for dracut to read
the DVD ?<br>
Also, has any one successfully installed F18 on the Dell XPS 15z ?<br>
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