15z

Revision 7 as of 2011-06-16 20:44:07

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Introduction

This page should give you all the information you need about running Ubuntu on a Dell XPS 15z laptop.

Installation gotcha's

  • Boot installer with acpi=off

  • Start installer directly, not through 'Try Ubuntu without installing'

Hardware Support Matrix

Hardware

Ubuntu Release

Status

Keyboard

Natty (11.04)

Works

Oneiric (11.10)

???

Screen

Natty (11.04)

Works

Wireless ethernet

Natty (11.04)

Works

Trackpad

Natty (11.04)

Does not work

Wired ethernet

Natty (11.04)

Works

Sound

Natty (11.04)

Works

Optimus

Natty (11.04)

Does not work

Hardware

Optimus / Graphics cards

Just submitted the DSDT information needed to make acpi_call work for the 15z ( hopefully ) to this bugreport. Hopefully this should enable us to shut down the nvidia card if you want and just use the Intel 3000 card.

Fan

About fan noise.. The 15z seems a lot louder fan-wise than for example my Latitude E6500. The latter has no audible fan noise, while I can clearly hear my 15z blow its fans. Anyone here used the 15z with Windows, and noticed that it was a lot quieter there?

Trackpad

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1108661