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    Debian Squeeze on XPS 15 Laptop

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by ngsome, Sep 18, 2011.

  1. ngsome

    ngsome Notebook Enthusiast

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    Folks,

    any one of you tried to install Debian Squeeze on new series Dell Laptop (XPS 15 another Dell Laptop with Core i7 Processor, Nvidia,USB 3).

    could you share a few things such as Driver, graphical resolution, and etc?
     
    ngsome, Sep 18, 2011
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    cri-cri Notebook Consultant

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    FWIW I have Arch 64 installed on L502x/i7/FHD and everything works OK on iGpu.
    Code: 
    l502x ~ # lspci -vv | grep driver
	Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
	Kernel driver in use: i915
	Kernel driver in use: mei
	Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
	Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
	Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
	Kernel driver in use: ahci
	Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
	Kernel driver in use: iwlagn
	Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
	Kernel driver in use: r8169
     
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    ngsome Notebook Enthusiast

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    Cri-Cri,

    may i know what your laptop specification is? core i7 or i5? no issue with the driver ?

     
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    cri-cri Notebook Consultant

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    Uploaded spec in my sig... - :)
    Anyway, here is my XPS spec:
    i7 2630qm / gt 540m / 640 GB HDD / intel ultimate N-6300
    I have the FHD display (that I am going to replace soon with a HD+ matte), graphics on HD3000 work perfectly (kernel driver i915) as does everything else except the nvidia gpu that I don't need anyway (used only for occasional gaming in W7). USB, sound, lan, wlan, keyboard light and so on work out of the box.
    arch 64bit with: Kernel 3.0, gcc 4.6.1, grub 2, gnome 3.0.2
     
    cri-cri, Sep 18, 2011
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