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    Has anyone tried Ubunto on their M11X[R2]?

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by BrokenKeyboard, Apr 26, 2011.

  1. BrokenKeyboard

    BrokenKeyboard Notebook Consultant

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    I'm curious to try out Linux (ubuntu), has anyone tried it out on their M11X?
     
    BrokenKeyboard, Apr 26, 2011
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    ajslay Overclocker, PC Builder

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    its called ubuntu. lol. its not very compatible with an r2 due to optimus.
     
    ajslay, Apr 27, 2011
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    I tried it, got 2 1/2 hr battery life from a full charge.
     
    Tedster59, Apr 27, 2011
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    BrokenKeyboard Notebook Consultant

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    Haha, yeah just as I powered off my laptop I realised I called it Ubunto.

    Did it install OK? I only want to test it out, I won't be doing anything serious on it. I'll have a Windows 7 partition for games.
     
    BrokenKeyboard, Apr 27, 2011
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    Zathu Notebook Enthusiast

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    Zathu, Apr 27, 2011
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    froogle Notebook Evangelist

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    I run it every day on an R2 with Virtual box. Given the virtualization extensions available in the core series of processors you really don't lose that much between running Linux this way and running it native. What you gain though is freedom from problems of driver configurations etc.

    Just be sure to have enough memory free to dedicate to Virtual Box (4 gig is ideal)
     
    froogle, Apr 28, 2011
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    khimera2000 Newbie

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    I have. it takes a bit to fix the video issue, right now the only way is to use acpi_call and kill it. I don't have it working with the nvidia card, but i did get it to push out about 4 hours of batter life give or take. Im running an m11xR2 with I7 and hdd on ubuntu 11.04 to give an idea of what kind of life you can expect. there is also a utility you can get that can control the frequency of the CPU, but it will not over clock. theres also a trick to move some temp files into ram so web browsing etc won't page the HDD as much. this saves some juice.

    if your interested i can see if i can dig up where I got these tweaks. they where not at the same place unfortunately.

    FYI

    I installed it using a spare external HDD i had around. making a small fat32 partition, and following the instructions on a USB install on the official web sight. just click the option to show all drives and select the partition that was created on the external.

    what did not work was a microSD card using a USB addapter, or using a pro duo card inside the build in card reader.

    I installed this way because i lost my external card reader.
     
    khimera2000, Apr 30, 2011
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    seraphkz Notebook Consultant

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    seraphkz, Apr 30, 2011
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