<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Right now the only thing I cannot get working is he Intel GPU so I could enable optimus. otherwise it is running great. Not a great laptop but this is more about being a portable desktop replacement. so it is viable. Just trying to decide if it is viable enough to make the switch.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 11:44 AM Michael Butash <<a href="mailto:michael@butash.net">michael@butash.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I have not had great luck so far with 18.04 on my xps15 with graphics, particularly it having both intel and nvidia, but the os seemed sort of shoddy so far. So far kubuntu/kde refuses to load at all, just crashing, same with cinnamon/mate. The only thing that works reliably so far is ubuntu gnome shell, which I hate, but sort of stuck with, and still gets like an hour of battery life if lucky. I should take some time to try and fix it, but I'm usually not too mobile with it unless doing wireless survey work.<br></div><div><br></div><div>You might do well to try 16.04 for grins and just load a newer kernel (I did so for the tb16 dock enhancements), which worked fine under 16.04 on my xps and kde or any de. Everything worked solidly there prior, again 18.04 just seems shoddy/broken. I've considered reinstalling 16.04.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Even better, I'd love to go back and get arch on that thing... Arch has been great for me on my desktop, I don't even remember why arch was being weird on the xps15 (I think the nvme disks and boot disk kernel...).</div><div><br></div><div>I looked at the razor blade laptops ala alienware for pretty factor, but worried about the hardware compat like this too. Like I mentioned in another thread about the pretty asus, not all that glitters, particularly mingling linux.<br></div><div><br></div><div>-mb<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 9:54 AM, Stephen Partington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cryptworks@gmail.com" target="_blank">cryptworks@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">I have set myself a small challenge/puzzle.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">So far it is going well Aside from the alienware effects and whatnot everything is working really well.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Except the intel GPU. the nvidia gpu is up and running nicely, but the intel gpu is not lighting up. given that this is coffee lake the uhd 630 is super new, but it is supposed to be supported within kernel 4.13 and i have 4.15 and the i915 driver is also supposed to work with some kernel params, but none of them seem to be cooperating.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">i can still see the hardware is there. and all the driver and kernel module components seem to be there. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Any resource suggestions would be greatly appreciated. if anyone has ever tacked this scenario or something like it i would love to hear your insights.</div><span class="m_-5243486017208997386HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="m_-5243486017208997386m_-4994265270732105469gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.<br><br>Stephen<br><br></div></font></span></div>
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