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Write an howto install fresh 15.04 #18
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I will receive my XPS in a few days, I'll write an article about my experiments. According to https://github.com/mpalourdio/xps13 (config 9), the 3.19.0 kernel works fine with some drivers, so I plan to try to do this:
My plan is to find a fully working configuration out of the various tests by people here and share it in a single article. |
I wrote something similar for Fedora 21, it's here |
I did a fresh install to ubuntu 15.04 from usb key on my xps 13 dev edition (after upgrading failed). I had to install the proprietary wireless driver from the usb image (as described here, for some reason just adding the iso as the source under Software Sources gui and clicking 'install proprietary drivers' didn't work). I also had to install Bluetooth drivers (as in #1). I get about 5.5 hrs on the battery (display dimmed, wireless & bluetooth on, minimal cpu tasks) whereas config 11 reports almost twice that -- maybe that's all due to the patched 4.0 kernel?. Sometimes see flickering when connecting to an external 4K display; and occasionally get repeated keys (sometimes worse on my bluetooth K810 keyboard but also on the built-in one). trackpad also seems to be active while typing (leading to accidental presses) despite having 'disable while typing' checked. |
I did a fresh install of 15.04 from a USB key and did not need to install any drivers at all. Both wireless and bluetooth were working out of the box. I did have to disable UEFI boot mode though. |
@mcmillhj I wonder what wireless hardware and driver you have then. Here is mine after choosing Additional Drivers:
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@anaran I see no differences between your output and my own, but I did not install any additional drivers myself. I did do the typical
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@mcmillhj Did you install ubuntu with an ethernet cable? |
@domak Nope, I returned the USB3 to Ethernet adapter Dell marked as compatible with the XPS13 because it seemed to only work for the Ubuntu version that came with it. The Debian netinst image I was trying to install couldn't find the driver for it. |
I installed the stock Ubuntu and everything seems to work fine. I'll investigate a bit more. |
@mcmillhj thanks. It's weird. so many people here get problems with broadcom wifi and bluetooth... |
I've also had to disable UEFI mode, perhaps because I have encrypted the On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 5:49 AM domak notifications@github.com wrote:
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I am not able to install properly Ubuntu 15.04, it installs but i cannot boot. @mcmillhj you are in Legacy mode right? |
@cboettig Same here. @domak after my install I got a black screen with a message that said
I rebooted the machine and edited the BIOS to start in Legacy Boot mode and the machine booted. I am not entirely sure why I needed to make this change either. @cboettig Try editing your BIOS to start in Legacy Boot mode |
@cboettig Same happened to me after a fresh install of Ubuntu 15.04 with whole disk encryption. Still I observe an occasionally flickering Ubuntu logo upon shutdown and hotkeys stopping to work every now and then... |
@macghriogair I also see that every time I shutdown, I assume you are still having the suspend/resume issue as well? |
@mcmillhj No, I could not observe suspend/resume issues so far, although did no excessive testing yet. Concerning the hotkeys, I suspect it has to do with using Guake terminal. Every time it's visibility get's toggled via F12, the hotkeys, inlcuding Fn-keys and power button stop responding until I activate any other window, e.g. from the launcher. After all, this might not be a specific issue with the Dell XPS but with Guake or compiz. |
I managed to install a fresh 15.04. Here is what I did:
I had a Wifi problem: the Broadcom driver wasn't installed. I installed it using the same stick:
I can deal with the suspend problem, but the repeated keys are pretty annoying :) . I'm trying to see how to solve these issues. |
Okay, so it seems the suspend issue was a problem of display: I added the command |
The UEFI booting problem might have to do with the BIOS expecting a file
in the EFI partition, but the OS does install something else. Debian e.g. installs the EFI bootloader to
A workaround is to mount the EFI partition (as vfat) using a rescue disk, and renaming the file/path. |
Hello, I have wrote a step-by-step guide for installing Ubuntu 15.04 on the XPS 13. |
@hg8 very nice 🏆 |
@cboettig Thanks :) |
@hg8 This is perfect. Thanks. |
Indeed, I have corrected it thanks ! |
As mention in #8, upgrading from 14.04 is not possible.
I read in dell forum that one guy bricks its laptop while attempting to install a fresh 15.04 (even the recovery process was impossible).
So, if somebody who was successful to install 15.04 could write a github wiki page to put some trick I will fill more comfortable (how to save the current settings to optionally recover, BIOS or UEFI, etc).
Thanks
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