Acer Aspire V3-371

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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.

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]

Reduce Swappiness to 1

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