| Sonny To on 14 Dec 2011 09:04:11 -0800 |
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| Re: [PLUG] dell xps 14z |
Loic, you're awesome! I'll give this a try. I owe you a beer! many thanks, Sonny On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Loic Duros <lduros@member.fsf.org> wrote: > Sonny: > > I just read you bought a u46e. I did too at Best Buy, took me the weekend to > be able to use it correctly with Debian. Turns out if you go in your BIOS > settings (I think if you press F2 when you see the ASUS logo, but I'll check > tonight, it doesn't tell you which F-key it is!), you then get to it. Then > press on the next arrow to get to the second tab (I think from memory). You > should see a "VT-d" field, you can disable it, then save the changes. > After that, all will work well, no need to turn off acpi either. > > > > On 12/13/2011 11:06 PM, Sonny To wrote: >> >> Hi PLUG, >> I'm looking to buy the dell xps 14z to run Linux of course >> >> http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/xps-laptops?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=mn >> >> Has anyone else had success running Linux on the xps 14z? I couldn't >> find anything on google probably because the laptop is fairly >> new. >> >> thanks, >> Sonny >> >> PS >> I just bought the Asus u46e at bestbuy. Its light and has great specs >> but ubuntu 11.10 and fedora 16 would not install on it. Hope I can >> still >> return it to bestbuy >> >> ___________________________________________________________________________ >> Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- >> http://www.phillylinux.org >> Announcements - >> http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce >> General Discussion -- >> http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug