Exactly the same hardware?

If so, what are current links to set up this laptop with the latest Developer build?

Check out this thread on the forum re. upgrading to 12.10 http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/os-applications/f/4613/p/19472043/20210395.aspx#20210395

Отново съм изкушен от идеята да работя отдалечено (от офиса – иначе близко, тоест вкъщи). Темата е обширна, но не ми е за това думата сега. А и не съм обсъждал възможността с настоящия работодател, така че всичко е само на етап обмисляне. Това, за коет…

BTW I would have liked to know if there is no problem in upgrading to Ubuntu 12.10 ? I couldn’t find a lot of info on this subject. Thanx for any news on this.

I finally got my XPS13 and installed the latest Sputnik iso. Everything worked out of the box, wow!

For the Kensignton dock : ethernet and USB worked out of the box, and for the video display, I found out that it uses the DisplayLink technology.

I installed the right driver for xorg :

> apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-displaylink

Then I added a new configuration in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d named 52-dl.conf, which contains the following (hopefully the formatting will keep this readable) :

Section “Device”
Identifier “internal”
driver “intel”
EndSection

Section “Device”
Identifier “kensington”
driver “displaylink”
Option “fbdev” “/dev/fb1″
EndSection

Section “Monitor”
Identifier “monitorDell”
EndSection

Section “Monitor”
Identifier “monitorXPS”
EndSection

Section “Screen”
Identifier “externalDell”
Device “kensington”
Monitor “monitorDell”
DefaultDepth 16
EndSection

Section “Screen”
Identifier “internalXPS”
Device “internal”
Monitor “monitorXPS”
DefaultDepth 16
EndSection

Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “multihead”
Screen 0 “externalDell” 0 0
EndSection

This allows me to use my external monitor while the XPS13 screen is “black”. I did not manage to find a satisfying configuration to have both screens on (with Xinerama, there are some strange behaviours with the mouse pointer when I switch from one screen to another).

Unfortunately, on my external monitor I now have to use Unity2D (which activates itself by default. I did not have time yet to see if I can activate a window compositing manager to return to my classical interface.

I’m waiting for a minidisplayport to vga converter to see if that solution is better.

Hopefully this can help some people …

I finally got my XPS13 and installed the latest Sputnik iso. Everything worked out of the box, wow!

For the Kensignton dock : ethernet and USB worked out of the box, and for the video display, I found out that it uses the DisplayLink technology.

I installed the right driver for xorg :

> apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-displaylink

Then I added a new configuration in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d named 52-dl.conf, which contains the following (hopefully the formatting will keep this readable) :

Section “Device”
Identifier “internal”
driver “intel”
EndSection

Section “Device”
Identifier “kensington”
driver “displaylink”
Option “fbdev” “/dev/fb1″
EndSection

Section “Monitor”
Identifier “monitorDell”
EndSection

Section “Monitor”
Identifier “monitorXPS”
EndSection

Section “Screen”
Identifier “externalDell”
Device “kensington”
Monitor “monitorDell”
DefaultDepth 16
EndSection

Section “Screen”
Identifier “internalXPS”
Device “internal”
Monitor “monitorXPS”
DefaultDepth 16
EndSection

Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “multihead”
Screen 0 “externalDell” 0 0
EndSection

This allows me to use my external monitor while the XPS13 screen is “black”. I did not manage to find a satisfying configuration to have both screens on (with Xinerama, there are some strange behaviours with the mouse pointer when I switch from one screen to another).

Unfortunately, on my external monitor I now have to use Unity2D (which activates itself by default. I did not have time yet to see if I can activate a window compositing manager to return to my classical interface.

I’m waiting for a minidisplayport to vga converter to see if that solution is better.

Hopefully this can help some people …

so for the Targus USB3, which used DL-3900, I guess we have to wait…