dennis-360ict – I haven’t solved palm detection, so I don’t have any better settings, sorry. I was just looking over at this github repo used to track and solve issues with ubuntu and the XPS 13. They have a *very* active issue on palm detection, and the most recent comment suggests that the stock DE doesn’t work all that well :(

Thanks for posting your config though! As well, it’d be great to hear back if you find anything new.

But i wonder if you have better settings? I bought the system before there was a dev version, so i swapped the nic myself and installed ubuntu on it (it also gives me a dual win10 boot and a license for a win10 vm, sometimes i still need it). I’m wondering if the default settings on a Dell dev version with factory installed ubuntu are better? Do you have such a system and if yes, what are your default xinput settings for the touchpad?

Also, since i’m on kernel 4.8 (in 16.04 lts), there sometimes seems to be 2 touchpad drivers, xinput gives a synaptic and Dell ones sometimes. So 4.8 could be the culprit too.

Goofball – Your plan would work – but I think you’ll be wasting time and money! If you’re going to buy an XPS 13, upgrade SSD and re-install then there’s no need to buy a Developer Edition (DE). Just buy a referb windows version and put in the recommended wireless card (Intel 7265 802.11ac). It’ll cost under $30 and be a lot easier than swapping out the SSD. As well, for about $1,000 you can get a 16GB/512GB/QHD+ resolution rig with windows. Again – see ebay link at the start of this article. Stock Ubuntu 16.04 now has 100% support of all hardware – no hacks needed. Dell has been upstreaming a lot of their fixes – w00t!

Otherwise, if you still want to get a DE rig and upgrade the disk, I think this is the Dell Ubuntu repo (but double check!). I’ve had good luck with the Samsung EVO SSDs – and they’re highly rated; it got 4.7 stars on 800+ reviews on Amazon. The 250GB on is under $100. As well, an easier way than re-installing is to get an m.2 SATA USB adapter. You can then boot off an Ubuntu install USB disk, image (via gparted) the internal the drive to the external one. Then expand the partition on the external drive (gparted again) and swap it out for the internal one. Good luck!

My plan is to buy the cheapest XPS 13 Developer’s edition that has the regular 1080P IPS non-touch screen with 8gigs of RAM and a 128gig SSD for like $950…then swap out the SSD with a 256gig (the only reason to do this is because their options are only for the 129gig, but if you want the 256gig SSD, you have to jump way up in price to the QHD Touch screen for like $1300. The base model with i5 at $950 is perfect save for the SSD size.

ANYWAY, after I get it, was thinking of just swapping the SSD for the larger size and reinstalling Ubuntu…making sure everything was the same config and the same repositories from Dell. Is this viable? Or will it be more like you’ve gotten there and starting from “scratch”?

Thanks!

Jarred – I’ve tried both an SD card and a micro SD with an SD adaptor and both have worked fine. Maybe try booting off a Ubuntu 16.04 USB installer and see if the card reader works then? Finally, test under Windows if you can. If both fail then maybe it’s a faulty reader you have?

Best of luck!

ingumsky – thanks for the note! I’m running 4.4.0-45, so the fix is clearly a few steps ahead of me. My friend with the same laptop says touch works for him in 4.4.0-53 even. However, per my post, I have touch working with the hack. I’ll self turn off when I upgrade the kernel -handy!

Do you mean 9343 Jonathan? I’ve never heard about XPS 9353. My mic works just fine on XPS 9350.