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Dell XPS 17 9710

There are two major hardware variants. Intel-only and NVidia

This has only been tested with the Intel-only variant

Firmware Configuration

Enter the bios by repeatedly pressing F2 when the laptop turns on

Before installation

These settings are needed both for booting the final install, and installer itself. Therefore, they must be done first.

Method One

  • Click Restore Settings button a select BIOS Defaults, not to be confused with Factory Settings

Method Two

  • Disable Secure Boot (but keep UEFI Boot). Thankfully doing so is as easy as changing any other simple setting.
  • Disable Intel hardware RAID and use AHCI instead. Intel doesn't seem to provide a working linux driver for this

Optional

Firmware upgrades

Note that this device is supported by fwupd. To perform firmware upgrades just activate the service

services.fwupd.enable = true;

Then use fwupdmgr to perform updates.

Enable fingerprint reader

Activate the service

services.fprintd.enable = true;