Re: Question regarding power button of Dell XPS13

[Daniel J Blueman]

On Monday, December 26, 2016 at 6:30:05 AM UTC+8, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 4:36 AM, Paul Menzel <pmenzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I heard that you both have a Dell XPS13. I got the ârevisionâ 9360, and
> > installed Debian Stretch/testing on it with Linux 4.8.15 and Linux 4.9-rc8.
> >
> > When pressing the power button the GNOME dialog, asking what to do (restart,
> > power off, â) doesnât appear.
>
> Hmm. I don't recall ever seeing such a dialog. But I don't run Debian.
>
> For me it works like all power buttons on my laptops have worked
> lately - it suspends the machine.
>
> Of course, so does just closing the lid.
>
> The only "bug" I've seen in this area is the design bug of the XPS13
> where there is no visible indication of the suspend state (ie the
> traditional slowly pulsing LED showing that it's all nice and
> suspended). But that seems to be intentional, if stupid. I think it's
> the only real beef I have with the XPS13.

I find the 9360 to be a solid laptop (my XPS 15 9550 would fail to
resume from suspend 15% of the time), but did any of you guys run into
bit-depth colour issues [1] on the Skylake/9350 with USB-C to HDMI
adapters?

Dan

[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99137
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Daniel J Blueman