Fedora 18 on Dell XPS13

[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-developer-edition/

I agree it's an excellent machine.

Adam

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Garry T. Williams <gtwilliams at 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.
>
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> Garry T. Williams
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