Alienware 15 R4 and Ubuntu 18.04

[Stephen Partington]

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.

On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 11:44 AM Michael Butash <michael at butash.net> wrote:

> 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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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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