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
>>
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