# Acer Aspire V5-573G

Device | Status | Modules
Intel graphics | Working | i915
Nvidia graphics | Working, see below | nvidia, bumblebee
Graphic outputs | Working | i915
Ethernet | Working | r8169
Wireless | Working | ath9k
Bluetooth | Working | ath3k
Audio | Working | snd_hda_intel
Touchpad | Working | xf86-input-synaptics
Camera | Working | uvcvideo

General info about the Acer Aspire V5-573G laptop. Everything pretty much works out of the box, follow standard documentation for details.

Note: Most of this should also apply to the Acer Aspire V7-582PG and Acer Aspire V7-582G - those are higher tier models of the same, confirmed to be the same motherboard. Touchscreen wasn't tested on those.

## Disabling UEFI Secure Boot

To disable Secure Boot, set the supervisor password in the BIOS settings. Then you should be able to disable Secure Boot and boot Arch.

## mSATA Slot

Laptop has an empty mSATA SSD slot, which can be used for almost anything you want to. For example, you can use it as your `/` partition, which will improve boot and application startup times, with `/home` and possibly `/var` located on your HDD. However, it can't be used as the primary boot device, so you will have to create a `/boot` partition on the HDD and install your bootloader there.

## Hardware

Note: This may differ from your laptop configuration.

    # lspci

    00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT DRAM Controller (rev 09)
    00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
    00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT HD Audio Controller (rev 09)
    00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series USB xHCI HC (rev 04)
    00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series HECI #0 (rev 04)
    00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 8 Series HD Audio Controller (rev 04)
    00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev e4)
    00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev e4)
    00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev e4)
    00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev e4)
    00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series USB EHCI #1 (rev 04)
    00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series LPC Controller (rev 04)
    00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series SATA Controller 1 [AHCI mode] (rev 04)
    00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 8 Series SMBus Controller (rev 04)
    01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107M [GeForce GT 750M] (rev a1)
    04:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR9462 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
    05:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 5287 (rev 01)
    05:00.1 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 14)

### CPU

    $ lscpu

    Architecture:          x86_64
    CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit, 64-bit
    Byte Order:            Little Endian
    CPU(s):                4
    On-line CPU(s) list:   0-3
    Thread(s) per core:    2
    Core(s) per socket:    2
    Socket(s):             1
    NUMA node(s):          1
    Vendor ID:             GenuineIntel
    CPU family:            6
    Model:                 69
    Model name:            Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4200U CPU @ 1.60GHz
    Stepping:              1
    CPU MHz:               1714.488
    CPU max MHz:           2600.0000
    CPU min MHz:           800.0000
    BogoMIPS:              4591.40
    Virtualization:        VT-x
    L1d cache:             32K
    L1i cache:             32K
    L2 cache:              256K
    L3 cache:              3072K
    NUMA node0 CPU(s):     0-3

### Memory specifications

Even though it says 1.5V on the motherboard, it's wrong[1]. If you want to upgrade RAM, you need to look for:

- DDR3
- PC3L-12800 (1600MHz)
- 1.35V (very important, higher will not work!)
- SO-DIMM

## Issues

### NVIDIA breakage

In case you encounter issues with NVIDIA GPU initialization, see Bumblebee troubleshooting section.

### PulseAudio upmixing

If you do not have 4.0 sound sources, you may want to make PulseAudio automatically upmix 2.0 to 4.0. To do this, add `default-sample-channels=4` to `~/.config/pulse/daemon.conf` (create the file if needed).

## See also

- Drivers and Manuals Official support page
- Acer Aspire V5-573G Gentoo Wiki

Category:

- Acer