On Wed, 22 May 2013 13:53:52 +0100 Adam Huffman
<adam.huffman(a)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-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> 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.
>
> --
Btw, where is this XPS13 manufactured?
Many thanks,
Ranjan
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