Fedora 18 on Dell XPS13

[Ranjan Maitra]

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



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[Gordon Messmer]

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.

[Adam Huffman]

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.
>
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>  Garry T. Williams
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[Garry Williams]

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

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Wed, 22 May 2013 13:53:52 +0100 Adam Huffman
<adam.huffman(a)gmail.com&gt; 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&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.
>  >
>  > -- 
Btw, where is this XPS13 manufactured?

Many thanks,
Ranjan

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[Ranjan Maitra]

On Fri, 17 May 2013 16:04:55 -0500 Ian Pilcher <arequipeno(a)gmail.com&gt;
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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[Ian Pilcher]

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).

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