Laptop dell inspiron 15 3535

Installation

  • installation : could not had sys-net from scratch, had to troubleshoot slightly
  • Was latest kernel required? yes, had to force upgrade to 6.6.2-1.fc37, higher than highest one available in from ISO 4.2.0rc4

Basic Input

  • Keyboard - works
  • External USB mouse - works
  • Touch-pad - works
  • Touch-pad supports “tap as click” and scrolling with 2 fingers works - works
  • Display brightness change shortcuts - works
  • Sound volume shortcuts - works
  • Keyboard led and keyboard brightness change shortcuts - N/A
  • Output of xinput --list from terminal of dom0 - don’t work
  • Check if keyboard and/or touchpad is PS/2 connected : yes (it has an AT Translated Set 2 keyboard + an PS/2 Generic Mouse according to /proc/bus/input/devices)

Internet and bluetooth

  • Ethernet cable connection - works out of the box or actions were required? - no RJ-45 adapter
  • Ethernet cable connection - speed - not tested yet
  • Wifi connection - works out of the box or actions were required? - no, driver for chipset RTL8821ce in error, device detached from sys-net
  • Wifi connection - speed, is reliable over the time? - N/A
  • Bluetooth - works out of the box or actions were required? - same as wifi I presume, not tried
  • Bluetooth - shows devices, connection process works, sound output or copying works. - N/A

Suspend

  • Suspend/Resume works - works out of the box or actions were required? it worked except the problem I had with wifi driver. Once device detached, S/R works fine (though imposes to reassign usb rj45 adapter on resume, maybe a setup or a script needed)
  • Does resume breaks WiFi, if it does, how to recover it? - N/A
  • Does resume breaks Bluetooth, if it does, how to recover it? - N/A

Video [increase VCPU to the qube before test]

  • Fullscreen and windowed video playback of youtube - 720p/1080p/2K/4K in Firefox. Does it drop frames? no, remains fluid, but fans are too noisy
  • Video file playback of file using mpv/mplayer/smplayer - 1080p? Higher resolutions and bitrates? - not tested yet
  • Multiple displays configuration works (using available DP/Thunderbolt, HDMI or other video ports) - not tested yet

Audio

  • Speakers (sound playback) (was sys-audio used?) - works (no sys-audio created)
  • Head-phones via 3.5" jack (works, automatically turns off speakers?) - works
  • Sound output via HDMI - not tested yet
  • Audio-optical (S/PDIF) output - N/A

Fans

  • Are fans silent on idle? - if fans @ 0 RPM, ok! But T° makes them spin soon a little, disturbing. When on load (at work), rapidly too noisy
  • Are fans noisier than on Windows/Linux?. If they are, was thankfan or similar software tried? - did not keep Windows more than a day, don’t remember though fans did not seem to be a problem. Will try thankfan !

Other

  • Have you tried running Windows 10 HVM qubes? ** not yet**
  • Does CPU boost seem to be working properly? don’t known CPU boost

Specs:

  • Link to the laptop page on the brand website,
  • Display native resolution - 1920*1080
  • Maximum possible RAM memory - at least 16gb, 2 slots, will test 64 gb
  • CPU score ~ 16493
  • Number of USB Controllers and if more than one: information what internal USB devices and USB ports are connected to which controller - see 2 in lspci. How to known the connections ?
  • Internal TPM - TPM 2
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