Acer Aspire V3-371
Device | Status | Modules |
Intel | Working, see notes | i915 |
Ethernet | Working | r8169 |
Wireless | Working | iwlwifi |
Audio | Working | snd_hda_intel |
Touchpad | Working | xf86-input-synaptics |
Camera | Working | uvcvideo |
Card Reader | Working | rtsx_usb |
Bluetooth | Working |
Information for the Acer Aspire V3-371 53L5 (Core i5-5200U, 4GiB RAM, 240GB SSD). Almost everything works right out of the box.
Contents
Hardware
Partitions
# lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 223.6G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 512M 0 part /boot ├─sda2 8:2 0 30G 0 part / ├─sda3 8:3 0 4G 0 part [SWAP] └─sda4 8:4 0 189.1G 0 part /home
Devices
# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Host Bridge -OPI (rev 09) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics (rev 09) 00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Audio Controller (rev 09) 00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP USB xHCI Controller (rev 03) 00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP MEI Controller #1 (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #3 (rev e3) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #4 (rev e3) 00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP USB EHCI Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP LPC Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP SATA Controller [AHCI Mode] (rev 03) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP SMBus Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP Thermal Management Controller (rev 03) 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 0c) 02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 7265 (rev 48)
Configuration
Disabling UEFI Secure Boot
To disable Secure Boot, set the supervisor password[dead link 2020-03-28 ⓘ] in the BIOS settings. Then you should be able to boot Arch.
Video
Install the xf86-video-intel package as shown here
Solid State Drive
Enable TRIM by mount flag[broken link: invalid section]
Apply trim via periodic fstrim with systemd[broken link: invalid section]
Switch from default CFQ scheduler to NOOP, for the whole system[broken link: invalid section]
Touchpad
Configure the touchpad as a ClickPad by editing the touchpad section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf
as shown here
Troubleshooting
Video
I experienced a loss of h-sync when swiching TTYs[broken link: invalid section] and solved it as suggested by the wiki, by adding i915.enable_ips=0
as a kernel parameter