Greetings Nager,

Thank you for your post and feedback regarding the XPS 13s. Please add me as a friend with your name, email and service tag. I will get a Dell Ubuntu expert to reach out.

I have all of the above issues, although i have seen webGL work on 2 of the chrome experiments pages using chrome-unstable.

Add to the list speedstep seems to lock the CPU freq at 800-900mhz max on battery regardless of load.

How did you even manage to start installing software and updates?

My system boots into locked oem account and I have not been able to find any hints on dell websites based on the service tag, how to proceed after that initial powerup.

Thanks for any pointers.

The pointer and fonts were flashing following the first few reboots after the initial install; after a series of escaping to shells and apt-get -f dist-upgrades the OS stabilized to the point that I could see which applications were not working.

Hi, where did that leave you, in terms of

lsb_release -d

and

uname -r

in the end?

I have also failed to get to 14.10, like others reported before me:

http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/os-applications/f/4613/t/19629675

Specifically kernel 3.16 won't start up.

Thanks!

I'm experiencing all of these problems as well as the failure to resume on suspend one. I have no recovery disk because of that issue, so I've been hesitant to try anything too risky. I see some folks are having fixes to their trackpad issues from a kernel upgrade. Have any of these other issues been addressed, or am I better off contacting Dell support at this point?

Lol another borked xps 13 by dell, why am i not surprised. This is like 3 years in a row

Iterating apt-get -f dist-upgrade until it converged left me at 14.04.2 LTS with 3.13.0-52-generic (LTS is what I want). No response yet from Dell.

Thanks for your reply! That is consistent with my experience.

I will try to install releases.ubuntu.com/.../ubuntu-15.04-desktop-amd64.iso today an report back.

Else I will have to go back using a dell recovery image using a usb stick.

I installed 15.04 with proprietary microcode + broadcom and it works wonderfully. There is no trackpad typing isolation but apparently the way i type seems to naturally avoid the trackpad so I havent found that to be an issue.

One thing I noticed is terminals shortcuts Ctrl+Alt+1..7 no longer switch to text consoles even though /etc/init/tty[1-6].conf are there with 0644 root root.

Have you tried Ctrl + Fn + Alt + 1..7 ?

I succeeded with the above, installed broadcom driver, not the proprietary intel firmware yet, but will do that too.

For me the cursor jumping got worse as compared to 14.04, but this might well be an ergonomic issue.

The touchpad is quite big and I wasn't sure whether by palms weren't getting too close, although I was very careful not to touch it.

@aerolith do you have tap to click enabled?

I just turned it off for testing and so far see no cursor jumping, but I really want tap to click.

One thing I noticed is terminals shortcuts Ctrl+Alt+1..7 no longer switch to text consoles even though

/etc/init/tty[1-6].conf are there with 0644 root root.

Thanks @vassil! I would have sworn I tried it all. Also googled in true CS manner.

It's actually Ctrl + Fn + Alt + F1..6 to get to the consoles, where you are then stuck until trying Ctrl + Alt + F7 to get back to terminal 7 where the xserver is running.

How do you install the proprietary microcode + broadcom?

Hi Vulvix,

Im sorry for your experience.  We are currently compiling a knowledge base while working on issues in the background that we will be posting on.

Thanks!