On Wednesday, August 2, 2017 at 5:16:52 AM UTC-7, Eric wrote: > Thanks for the info! I've been eyeing this hardware as Qubes 4 becomes > visible on the horizon - ordering through Dell allows for customizing things > to a great degree. I was able to spec out a 1TB SSD, i7 processor, and no > fingerprint reader or QHD screen, to save battery and power options! pretty > cheap, too - just under 2K with 16GB of RAM. > > For future reference, because I couldn't find the info anywhere, this machine > supposedly has a TPM 2.0 chip > (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/d/Dell-XPS-15-9560-Laptop/91076TJJ2WFB/FD4C). > > Have you been able to get AEM working? And, how is your battery life? It > sounds like the Killer AC chip is working ok, since it's just a rebranded > Atheros chipset, other than the standby issue - can you confirm?
Some follow up, since I've been attempting to ascertain whether or not the discrete GPU can be disabled completely: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dell_XPS_15_9560 Does not appear so, which is a shame - significant power draw from that even when idle, and according to everything I can find, there are NO options to disable the discrete GPU in BIOS. However, if you're comfortable with dumping and rewriting the BIOS slightly, it seems like there might be a way to disable it. This guy's trying to disable the *integrated* graphics, but he claims that tweaking a certain bit completely removes the ability for windows to see the card. http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/xps-9560-disabling-integrated-graphics.806855/#post-10563153 probably no easy way to check, but, does blacklisting the noveau driver prevent the GPU from coming online *at all* ?? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/4e20937f-9aad-448f-9901-cf9a3410f9d5%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
