I am about to purchase the Alienware m15 r3, and I usually dual boot all my computers, but I have seen some people experience some difficulties while trying to install ubuntu on an Alienware, and I haven't seen any posts about the new Alienware, has anyone install ubuntu on the Alienware m15 r3? If so, can you share what resources, problems you had, and the steps you followed? Thanks!!
So I have an Alienware 13 R3 with the OLED display, and for the first time I was able to change the brightness using the xrandr command. The problem was the absence of backlight in OLED displays, so I couldn't change the brightness wither with the keyboard, or in any other way. So now that I know I can change it, I want to put a key binding to change the brightness by let's say 0.1. I used this command to change the brightness:
xrandr --output eDP-1-1 --brightness .5
Does anyone know what command to use not to set the brightness, but to increase or decrease it by some value, so I can bind a macro to it. Thanks in advance!
P.S. I am completely new to Linux, so please don't go hard on me :P
How to install Ubuntu 18.10 on an Alienware 15?
I've encountered an error with the touchpad not working, and the noveau graphics driver being insufficient for Steam.
I have installed Ubuntu 16.04 on my new Alienware 17 R4 laptop that comes with Killer 1550 WiFi network card. Currently I am running on LAN cable to connect to the internet but would very much like to make use of my WiFi card. I have tested that it works well in Windows 10.
How do I get Killer 1550 installed on Alienware 17 R4?
The following are my outputs from sudo lshw -C network:
hello@world:~$ sudo lshw -C network
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: Qualcomm Atheros
vendor: Qualcomm Atheros
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:3c:00.0
logical name: enp60s0
version: 10
serial: 10:65:30:fd:d6:35
size: 100Mbit/s
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm pciexpress msi msix bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=alx duplex=full ip=192.168.1.92 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100Mbit/s
resources: irq:16 memory:dd300000-dd33ffff ioport:d000(size=128)
***-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: Intel Corporation
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:3d:00.0
version: 29
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:dd200000-dd203fff**
I can certainly use my ethernet hence I believe I do have the Qualcomm Atheros driver. Probing further on my network controller (WiFi card?):
hello@world:~$ lspci -knn | grep Net -A2
3d:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2526] (rev 29)
Subsystem: Bigfoot Networks, Inc. Device [1a56:1550]
3e:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller [0108]: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:0116]
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:0001]
In case this could be of any useful information, my current linux kernel is:
hello@world:~$ uname -r
4.13.0-37-generic
Thank you all for reading and your kind assistance in getting my wifi to work!
P.S.: I tried suggestions found here Wifi not working in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on an Alienware 17 R4 but it doesn't work for me.
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my alienware m11x, which has both integrated and discrete graphics. I also installed gnome-shell, but upon login it defaults to fallback mode. I'm pretty sure this is an issue with the graphics drivers.
However, there are no graphics drivers listed in the 'additional drivers' so I'm not sure what drivers I need. I know even the discrete graphics are capable of running gnome shell (I had linux mint previously installed and it ran gnome shell fine), its just a matter of installing the right drivers. Are there some drivers I can install from the command line? I also found this page: http://intellinuxgraphics.org/ but I have no idea what I need.
Any help would be awesome.