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DISCLAIMER These are my personal notes for experiments with my own laptop. These instructions could cause data loss, damage to your system, or even your system becoming unusable. Use at your own risk. These are my notes to get Ubuntu working on a Dell XPS 1. I originally started with Ubuntu 1. LTS. Then I upgraded to Ubuntu 1. Ubuntu 1. 7. 0. 4. At this point, I have. Ubuntu runningencrypted home directory in Ubuntuencrypted Windows partitiondual boot with Windows 1. Pro it works fineSuspendresume work fine with the n. Vidia 3. 81 driver. I can also run the Windows 1. Pro guest from Ubuntu host as a virtual machine, at full resolution. That is, I can choose whether I want to boot Windows natively, or as a virtual machine from Ubuntu. I also have a shared folder so that Windows as virtual machine can access my linux encrypted home directory. This way, all the data and documents can live on the Ubuntu partition and I dont need to allocate extra space for data in the Windows partition. However, there are a couple of small outstanding problems Table of Contents. Created by gh md toc. Laptop specs. 15. K 2. 82ppi IPS Infinity. Edge LCD glossy. 2. GHz Intel Core i. HQ 3. 8. GHz boost 4 cores, 8 threads. Windows 1. 0 Home 6. Nvidia Ge. Force GTX 1. GPU Mobile with 4. GB GDDR5 RAM1. 6GB 2. MHz DDR4 RAM Up to 3. GB5. 12. GB PCIe SSD Lite On CX2 8. B5. 12 Q1. 1 NV Up to 1. TB SSDWi. Fi Qualcomm Atheros 8. MIMOBluetooth 4. 1 lsusb reports Qualcomm Atheros. Invoice reports Killer 1. USB C 3. 1. 2x USB 3. HDMIKensington security slot. SDXC card slot. Stereo speakers. HD webcam. Single mic. UK tiled keyboard. Two button trackpad. WHr, 6 cell lithium ion battery, removable design capacity 8. Ah3. 57mm x 2. 35mm x 1. Installation steps. Prep work with Windows. Plug the power cord into the laptop. Start laptop and go through the Windows 1. Create a Windows recovery USB stick so that we can reset the laptop to factory settings if things go wrong. Go to the XPS 1. 5 9. BIOS version 1. 1. Other driver updates. Graphics card n. Vidia n. P G0. Change SATA Operation so that Ubuntu can see the SSDLogin into Windows 1. Safe Mode Change advanced Startup Options Restart Now Troubleshoot Advanced options Startup Settings RestartBoot laptop and press F1. BIOS Setup. System Configuration SATA Operation. Change SATA Operation from RAID On to AHCIApply and Exit. This will reboot the laptop, and provide several boot options. Choose 4. Safe ModeStart Windows System Control Panel Device Manager. Check that the IDE ATAATAPI controller is IntelR 1. SeriesC2. 30 Chipset Family SATA AHCI ControllerReboot normally. This should boot into the regular Window 1. If you reboot and go into the BIOS, SATA Operation should still be AHCIInstalling Ubuntu. Create a bootable USB stick with Ubuntu Live currently 1. LTS. You can do it from Windows or Linux. Boot the laptop with the USB stick you need to press F1. USB stick from the BIOS menuLaunch Ubuntu Live with Try Ubuntu without installingClick on Install Ubuntu 1. LTS to start installation. Select language e. EnglishSelect whether you want to connect to Wifi in my case I couldnt, because it doesnt give you the option to enter the Wifi usernameSelect Install third party software for graphic and Wi Fi hardware, Flash, MP3 and other mediaCheck Turn off Secure Boot and enter a password that youll need later. In Installation Type, it should have detected the existing Windows installation, and offer to install Ubuntu alongside dual boot. Now youll see the partitions in your drive. Select the main one, that contains Windows, and reduce it to make space for Ubuntu. For example, I reduced the Windows space to 5. GB, and left the rest for Ubuntu. The rest of the steps time zone, keyboard layout, login name and password is straightforward, just complete them. After the system installs, you will have dual boot. Boot into Ubuntu, login and now you can upgrade to 1. LTS support, but I did. Upgrading things. Graphics card driver. By default, Ubuntu uses the noveau driver. You can switch to the n. Vidia driver by launching Additional drivers from the dash, waiting for GUI to search for proprietary drivers, and then clicking on the n. Vidia driver, or using the command line. For example, to install v. Vidia driver,sudo apt get install nvidia 3. This will ask you for permission to deactivate Safe Booting, as its a third party driver. Youll have to provide a password, the system will reboot, boot up into a configuration mode that will ask whether you want to deactivate Safe Booting, and ask for said password. To avoid corruption of the window manager after resuming from suspend, you need v. This is not in the regular repository of Ubuntu 1. To install the latest versions of the n. Vidia drivers, first you have to add the graphics team repositoriessudo add apt repository ppa graphics driversppa. Now launching Additional drivers from the dash will provide more options, in particular v. Select and click Apply changes. The n. Vidia driver seems to work fine, and provides GPU acceleration. It also solves the window manager corruption after resuming from suspend caused by previous versions of the driver. Fixing problems. Touchpad. Moving your hand near the touchpad can cause the mouse pointer jump to the bottom left corner of the desktop and open the Trash. Sometimes, it also makes your cursor jump back so that you type in the middle of the sentence. To fix this problem, Juan Hernndez suggests replacing xserver xorg input synaptics with xserver xorg input libinputsudo apt get install xserver xorg input libinput. Windows update removes your dual boot. After updating Windows, or installing a program, you may lose the dual boot i. Windows boots without giving you the option to choose between Ubuntu or Windows. This is very easy to fix. Reboot the machine. Press F1. 2 when the Dell logo appears. Apart from the BIOS options, at the top youll be given the option to boot in Windows or Ubuntu. Select Ubuntu. Log in, and run in a terminalsudo grub install. This will recover the dual boot. Run your native Windows 1. Pro install as guest on Virtual. Box with Ubuntu as host. DISCLAIMER The instructions in this section are particularly dangerous, and can corrupt or destroy your system. If you use these instructions, its really at your own risk. Usually, in Virtual. Box you create a virtual disk where you install your guest operating system e. Windows 1. 0 Pro. Thus, Windows, all its programs and data are all inside a large file somewhere within your linux install. For example, Virtual. BoxVMswin. 10pro. However, here we want to do something different. Instead of creating a virtual disk, we want to run the already installed native Windows 1. Pro from Ubuntu. Basically, we are going to install Virtual. Box in Ubuntu and follow Green. Ashs Running a real Windows install in Virtual. Box on Linux instructions, slightly modified and with a couple of extra steps at the end. Prep work. First, we want to install Virtual. Box. Ubuntu provides a package virtualbox 5. For that, we are going to get the deb package virtualbox 5. Virtual. Box repository. The reason is that the Guest Additions silently fail to work with the default Ubuntu 1. Windows virtual machine to full resolution and full screen. From the Ubuntu dash, Software Updates Other software Add.