Alienware 15 R4 and Ubuntu 18.04

[Michael Butash]

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.

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.

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...).

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.

-mb

On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 9:54 AM, Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I have set myself a small challenge/puzzle.
>
> So far it is going well Aside from the alienware effects and whatnot
> everything is working really well.
>
> 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.
>
> i can still see the hardware is there. and all the driver and kernel
> module components seem to be there.
>
> 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.
>
> --
> 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.
>
> Stephen
>
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