On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 07:13:46PM +0200, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
... and PulseAudio 6.0, as you stated in another message, but which is not in Debian jessie. Therefore, commit b1ef29725865 does cause a regression (even though it's just a side effect): the Dell XPS 13 (2013) works just fine with a standard Debian jessie install and a current kernel. Sound worked fine until commit b1ef29725865 / works fine with commit b1ef29725865 reverted.
New kernels should continue to work on (reasonably) old userspace; and currently I do not see how this can be made to work with commit b1ef29725865 and no quirk / override. As soon as I find the time for that, I'll try to create a patch for that -- unless someone beats me to that.
IIRC I wasn't getting a useful GUI out of the box with Jessie either, though that could've been installer stuff - I can't remember any more (and the support for high DPI displays within the installer itself makes me happy I've got an eye checkup booked soon).
Well, sound _is_ quite important to me; and as stated above, the laptop works just fine otherwise on Debian jessie (well, except the WiFi adapter, but that's another story).
I just swapped my WiFi adaptor out for an Intel card, fairly easy to do.