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    Has anyone installed Linux on a L502x

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by pinsb, Apr 27, 2011.

  1. pinsb

    pinsb Notebook Consultant

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    If yes are there any problems?

    Mods please don't move this into the Linux forum as it's more relevant here for Dell owners.
     
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    I'm waiting for the new Ubuntu release, due tomorrow. Don't really want Ubuntu, but because it's being released now it apparently has better SB/CP support. I did try a Debian Squeeze boot a few weeks ago - didn't get as far as an installer and didn't spend much time working out why...

    Intel released new Xorg etc drivers last week ( http://intellinuxgraphics.org/2011Q1.html) which is good.

    Don't expect any Optimus support though - nVidia have said they have no plans to work on it. I'm not sure whether that means they won't work on switchable graphics or on allowing the dGPU to be used but I guess the former.
     
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    Razor2 Notebook Deity

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    Wanted to do it in a virtual machine, but it seems every single one is somehow bugged:
    WVM is not very compatible...
    Virtualbox is buggy...

    Has anyone successfully installed Ubuntu inside one of them with all the features running?
     
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  4. zygotic

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    It's not something I've done for a long long time. There's Parallels, which I know plenty of people like. Or you can install Ubuntu within Windows, if you want?
     
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    try vmware or parallels
     
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    Just to let you know - Ubutnu Natty boots and works fine on the L502x.

    Straight into X, using the IGP, though the nVidia GPU is detected and shown by lspci, so I'd think X could be configured to use it. Sound works, wifi and bluetooth (6230) work, WWAN is available for use. 8 cores detected. USB3 detected and ready (though I don't have anything to test it with)

    Slightly odd window manager - but that's easily changed.
     
    zygotic, Apr 29, 2011
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    Did you manage to get the Nvidia card working?
     
    pinsb, May 5, 2011
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    I've got Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04 working on VMWare View, all good apart from being able to use dedicated graphics (GT 435M).

    By the way I've got l501x, sorry misread the title.
    The systems are fairly similar apart from SB.
     
    SAiLO, May 5, 2011
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