Laptops which run Arch

exad · 2018-01-08 23:08:25

Currently running Arch on an Acer Spin 1 11.6' with an Intel N4200, 64gig emmc, 4Gb ddr3 and it runs really smooth.

lenok · 2018-01-09 14:44:23

Lenovo Yoga900s. Runs well with Gnome. Only problem is, Lenovo Active Pen doesn't work for many programs in Wayland session.

Minbari · 2018-01-09 21:05:50

Dell Latitude E6430:
_ cpu: i7 -3740QM,
_ gpu: nVIDIA NVS 5200M
_ ssd: 2xCrucial MX100 - Raid1 (Btrfs)
_ ram: 16GB DDR3 - 1600G
_ wifi: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205
_ display: 1600x900

Gunnersky2002 · 2018-01-26 01:17:31

I use a Lenovo Ideapad 320-15ABR which runs well. I do, however, need to configure the kernel to make my touchpad work.

freq · 2018-01-27 22:34:03

morlog wrote:

I got a Lenovo G50-80 couple of weeks ago. Got everything but the bluetooth working pretty easily. You need to turn off safe boot in the uefi which you can get to by pressing the button by the power jack. Install with uefi goes without a hitch.
ystem: Host daementor Kernel 4.0.1-1-ARCH x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop i3 4.10.2 Distro Arch Linux
Machine: System LENOVO product 80E5 v Lenovo G50-80
Mobo LENOVO model Lenovo G50-80 v 31900058 WIN Bios LENOVO v B0CN69WW date 06/20/2014
CPU: Dual core Intel Core i5-5200U (-HT-MCP-) cache 3072 KB
clock speeds max 2700 MHz 1 2200 MHz 2 2234 MHz 3 2326 MHz 4 2273 MHz
Graphics: Card Intel Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics
Display Server X.Org 1.17.1 driver N/A
Resolution 1366x768@60.00hz, 1280x1024@60.02hz, 1440x900@59.89hz
GLX Renderer Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 5500 (Broadwell GT2) GLX Version 3.0 Mesa 10.5.4
Audio: Card-1 Intel Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio Controller driver snd_hda_intel
Card-2 Intel Broadwell-U Audio Controller driver snd_hda_intel
Sound Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v k4.0.1-1-ARCH
Network: Card-1 Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver r8169
IF enp2s0 state up speed 1000 Mbps duplex full mac <filter>
Card-2 Broadcom BCM43142 802.11b/g/n driver wl
IF wlp3s0 state down mac <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size 500.1GB (45.2% used) ID-1 /dev/sda model ST500LT012 size 500.1GB
Partition: ID-1 / size 15G used 5.7G (41%) fs ext4 dev /dev/sda2
ID-2 /boot size 511M used 38M (8%) fs vfat dev /dev/sda1
ID-3 /home size 444G used 205G (49%) fs ext4 dev /dev/sda3
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu 47.0C mobo N/A
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu N/A
Info: Processes 152 Uptime 4 days Memory 1836.4/5888.1MB Client WeeChat 1.1.1 inxi 2.2.19

Hey, that's really cool! I'm running Arch on a Husqvarna Combine. It's really churning away and making the hay!

Snorlax · 2018-02-07 03:14:02

Just switched from HP 6460b to HP 8470p. I have to say, it's really a reliable workstation!
I wanted a USB port that could charge my phone or anything when the laptop was off, my old HP 6460b doesn't have the port and HP 8470p has that feature. And I heard that someone replaced the motherboard of 6460b with 8470p and it worked flawlessly. So I decided to buy a 8470p motherboard.
The merchant was so generous that she sent a 8470p model with the screen that didn't work and SATA port, CPU port, keyboard port, RAM port and WIFI port to be inserted. SO I purchased a 8470p screen from the merchant and newly bought CPU i7-3687U and inserted other needed things from 6460b to 8470p.
It's much faster than 6460b!

The output of lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:16.3 Serial controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family KT Controller (rev 04)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection (Lewisville) (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev c4)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev c4)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev c4)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation QM77 Express Chipset LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 04)
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] (rev 34)

With HP BB09 + CC09, it possesses battery capacity at around 16000 mAh, which could achieve a rather long battery life at around 20 hours.

Zar Marco · 2018-02-09 01:33:34

I have an Lenovo legion Y520, Intel core i7 7700HQ, 8 gb ram, hdd 1 Tb, video nvidia GTX 1050 ti.
Now I'm using this with arch. I use plasma as DE or i3wm. For i3wm I've installed Nvidia and Intel video driver, with only nvidia doesn't boot.

I have also an MacBook pro mid 2010, Intel core 2 duo with 8 Gb ram, ssd 250 gb, Nvidia 320m. Also this with arch and plasma or i3wm

Last edited by Zar Marco (2018-02-09 01:37:37)

idovitz · 2018-02-09 15:36:23

Clevo W740SU - Core i7 - i7-4750HQ - Intel Iris Pro 5200 GPU - 16G
Clevo P775TM1 - Core i5 - i5-8400 (6core) - Nvidia GTX1060 OC - 32G
Asus G74SX - Core i7 - i7- 2630QM - Nvidia GTX560M - 8G

gaabster · 2018-02-10 22:43:05

Installed arch on Lenovo Thinkpad E480. i5-8250u, 16G, iGPU 620UHD, intel ac3165 wireless.
It looks like all works pretty good out of the box except of the finger print reader but that is something I didn't check and tbh don't care about.

ichinix · 2018-02-12 07:58:39

Hello All,

Im Running Arch linux on the following laptops:
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Dell Latitude E6540
Intel i7-4800MQ
16GB RAM
AMD Radeon HD 8790M
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Dell Latitude E6520
Intel Core i5-2540M
8 GB RAM
Nvidia NVS 4200
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HP 240 G5
Intel I5-7200 U
8GB RAM
Intel HD Graphics
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Last edited by ichinix (2018-02-12 07:59:45)

Cknight70 · 2018-02-12 17:38:44

Lenovo 500-ISK works perfectly. All features work without special configuration. I do get an ACPI error on boot but it doesn't seem to effect anything and it is a known issue https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198167#c60
Here's my error for reference:

[    0.003333] ACPI: Core revision 20170728
[    0.033556] ACPI Error: [\_SB_.PCI0.XHC_.RHUB.HS11] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20170728/dswload-210)
[    0.033564] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, During name lookup/catalog (20170728/psobject-252)
[    0.033607] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, (SSDT:xh_rvp10) while loading table (20170728/tbxfload-228)
[    0.034856] ACPI Error: 1 table load failures, 13 successful (20170728/tbxfload-246)

Here is the only place I could find listing accurate specs https://www.cnet.com/products/lenovo-70 … hdd/specs/
I have the following differences:
240gb m.2 Corsair ssd
1Tb 7200rpm hdd
12 gb of ram
There is no subwoofer on any version of this model...

ichinix · 2018-02-15 06:42:28

ASUS ROG GL702ZC
Ryzen 1700
8GB RAM
AMD RX 580
So far everything but Bluetooth is working. (Still have to look into it but laptop is brand new, less then 24 hours in my possession)

illkitten · 2018-02-16 04:09:25

Lenovo N23. Everything working. Wonderful.

R136a1 · 2018-02-16 15:05:32

Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 10 : occasional system freezes, even using UXA mode (same with all the distro tested)
GPD Pocket : Hans De Goede's kernel

tydynrain · 2018-02-16 19:31:08

R136a1 wrote:

Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 10 : occasional system freezes, even using UXA mode (same with all the distro tested)
GPD Pocket : Hans De Goede's kernel

While this my response is off topic, I think it's important to mention that if you're using intel graphics, the xf86-video-intel driver is quite buggy, and that uninstalling it and removing any intel config files in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d, and just using the xorg modsetting drivers, will often resolve many video problems. It did for me across 3 systems.

Last edited by tydynrain (2018-02-16 19:33:15)

syrenity · 2018-02-18 17:38:31

HP x360 Spectre
i7 gen8
16GB
512 GB NVMe

So far so good

snack · 2018-02-22 08:29:54

Anyone with a Raven Ridge laptop? I'm interested in a high-end laptop with AMD processor since I read they are very good in compiling code. But it seems that for now almost no manufacturer has put out Raven ridge laptops (except for HP, which anyway uses a single channel memory which impairs the overall performance). Has anyone more precise information about available Raven Ridge laptops and eventually how they work with Arch? Thanks.

averagejoe · 2018-02-25 23:55:04

Asus x301a, my friend just gave it to me for free when my old laptops motherboard got fried and as a student couldn't afford anything. He was complaining that Windows 7 runs too slow on this piece of shoe of a computer.
But actually I've grown to love this old piece of hardware and as I am running arch linux on it the specs are more than enough... keyboard has decent feel to it, battery lasts about 3h. Only problem I haven't solved yet is battery indicator. Neither xfce(my safemode lol) or conky running in bspwm can't pull it. I did look into it and the /proc/ file just shows 100% battery even when I'm sure that it's not.

As you can see the system uses less than 200mb of ram when in idle. Once i run firefox the usage goes up to 1.5gb. I've never run out of RAM though, only once when a broken python loop filling an array ate it all .

The thing that genuinely suprised me was the fact that even though I have 7200rpm HDD on this setup, I haven't even considered moving to SSD since the boot time is incredibly fast.

EDIT: I keep reading about people struggling with bluetooth. I wish I had problems with bluetooth but this laptop model does not have it built in . Small dongle did the job when I really needed it but as this model has only 2 USB ports I refuse to give one away .

https://winblin.org/lib/exe/fetch.php?c … esktop.png

Mod note: Thanks for embedding a smaller version, however as it's still a bit too large, I switched it to URLs -- V1del

Last edited by V1del (2018-05-04 10:50:30)

artesano · 2018-03-02 19:50:03

Lenovo G580 & HP 635M.

HP 635M is a bit too slowly to run gnome 2.8 smoothly.
We will replace it within the next months with a Laptop with better specs because (as a daily working guy) I'm not really interested to maintain different desktop environments.

zuul · 2018-03-05 12:37:26

Acer Swift 1 (Swift SF113-31)
Pentium N4200 Quad Core
4GB RAM
64GB eMMC

Everything works fine out the box, excellent battery life, zero kernel configuration. Only change is to set the touchpad to basic mode in the bios.

Note:- This model also comes with an M.2 slot to add an additional drive

dkudriavtsev · 2018-03-15 16:49:28

Dell Latitude E6410
Intel Core i5-560M
8GB DDR3-1333 RAM
Nvidia Quadro NVS 3100M
120GB Patriot Torch LE SSD
1TB 5400RPM Toshiba HDD (in DVD drive slot)
1440x900 display
Backlit keyboard
Alps touchpad and pointing stick

This laptop works almost perfectly, it would be perfect if not for one major problem. With the default nouveau Nvidia open source graphics drivers, the laptop works perfectly most of the time but whenever DPMS is activated (e.g. the display sleeps) something happens where the display stops getting signals but does not turn off. This leads to having a very strange hardware issue when it is turned on, with the display getting a grey border around the edges and flickering white lines on the whole screen (stronger at the edges). This effect appears even on a restart, in BIOS, and when in TTY.

The only solution that I have found is to install nvidia-340xx on Arch.

The laptop also needs a very specific version of the Nvidia drivers on Windows. This issue happens on Windows with drivers newer than the Dell A08 update. The A08 update is the only version that I have found to not have this issue.

PolePosition · 2018-03-16 15:00:34

The same laptop that ichinix has:

ASUS ROG GL702ZC
Ryzen 1700
8GB RAM sad
AMD RX 580

SealsRock12 · 2018-04-03 15:47:12

I have the Lenovo ThinkPad X1C1.

8GB of ram.

Last edited by SealsRock12 (2018-04-03 15:47:45)

housetime · 2018-04-29 07:56:16

Acer TravelMate P238-M with the following hardware:
CPU: Intel Core i5-6200U
RAM: 12GB 1600MHz DDR3L
GPU: Intel® HD Graphics 520
Hard Drive: 256GB SSD Kingston
Display: 13.3" 1920x1080
Touchpad: Synaptics
WiFi: Intel 7260 802.11 ac

At the moment I don't see any hardware incompatibility at all.

Last edited by housetime (2018-04-29 07:57:03)

Santo_101 · 2018-05-19 09:37:43

zuul wrote:

Acer Swift 1 (Swift SF113-31)
Pentium N4200 Quad Core
4GB RAM
64GB eMMC
Everything works fine out the box, excellent battery life, zero kernel configuration. Only change is to set the touchpad to basic mode in the bios.
Note:- This model also comes with an M.2 slot to add an additional drive

If you could contact me regarding how you got it working I would appreciate it verry much

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