Fedora 18 on Dell XPS13

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Wed, 22 May 2013 13:53:52 +0100 Adam Huffman
<adam.huffman at 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-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.
> >
> > --

Btw, where is this XPS13 manufactured?

Many thanks,
Ranjan

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