Fedora 18 on Dell XPS13

[Garry T. 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