Laptops which run Arch

thiagowfx · 2014-10-13 17:48:49

r00tr4t wrote:

installed Arch and awesome wm on it with gumiboot. So far no problems except that some media keys don't work.

I'm afraid this is because of awesome wm, as it doesn't handle your media keys automatically (compared to complete desktop environments, such as gnome or kde). Right?

glenb77 · 2014-10-14 01:58:55

i installed Arch on my Asus x200ma touchscreen netbook/laptop. This is a low end / low priced unit with celeron 2815, 4gig ram and slow 500 gig hd.

installed arch with gnome 3 no login manager. pretty much everything works out of the box. to get fn brightness keys to work need acpi_osi= as a kernel option. but the keys are so laggy i just use the applet in gnome. i switched to kernel option video.use_native_backlight=1 to force only intel_backlight directory which allows gnome to set the brightness.

i converted to btrfs filesystem which saves space but for me was probably a small performance hit. planning to use ssd which is why i switched it. i use refind to boot from efi and also have win 8.1 and mint 17 on the drive.

i have noticed than when i log out of gnome and return to terminal, i got an xserver error about 3/4 of the time. but no real problems when in gnome other than an occasional crash of chromium which does not bring down gnome.

to get full touch options and pinch zoom in chromium i had to first identify the touchscreen input number with xinput command and then pass two flags to chromium in the /etc/chromium/default file: --touch-devices=10 --enable-pinch where 10 is my input number for the touch. also installed the pepper flash plugin for chromium

i installed tlp for battery saving, set the ath9k driver to enable power saving and thermald daemon and i get excellent battery time, usually 7 hours, as good or better than windows, a first for me.

machine feels a bit slow here and there, plan to upgrade wifi card to incude dual band and bluetoot and put in an ssd which should boost performance. overall satisfied with the computer and love arch. thanks to arch developers.

daguilera · 2014-10-15 17:03:53

Macbook 5.1 Alluminum

Works great booting by bios mode!
Wificard use wl from broadcom or b43 without n mode.
You will need blacklist apple-bl module for brightness and use nvidia_bl from aur.

Last edited by daguilera (2014-10-15 17:08:14)

InFerYes · 2014-10-21 12:56:54

Arch runs fine on Dell XPS M1530. Booting is done via Grub.

Some issues on Dell XPS L502x regarding Intel/nVidia graphics switching. Booting is done via Grub.

Some issues in Lenovo Flex2 15 regarding the touchscreen and mousepad. Touchpad drivers needed to be installed manually (luckily available via pacman), which I didn't need to do on the Dell laptops. The touchscreen works, but Gnome 3 doesn't really make full use of it and often a single touch is interpreted as a "double click". Serious issues regarding the WiFi connections. Connections die often and unable to reconnect. Media keys however do work properly. Booting is done with Gummiboot via the EFI.

Last edited by InFerYes (2014-10-21 12:57:35)

jancici · 2014-10-22 06:53:14

I am using http://mysn.eu/schenker-s413 without problems

Blasphemist · 2014-10-22 22:41:51

Currently I use Arch on a Toshiba Satellite C55D-A5208 to be specific. Right now I'm using Gnome 3.14.1. I have an AMD A6-5200 APU with Radeon HD Graphics x 4. The graphics are Gallium 0.4 on AMD KABINI as reported by Gnome. This is a 64 bit system with a 500 GB hard drive and 4 GB RAM and I bought it for $320 US. This system has a GUID Partition Table, GPT, and I have secure boot turned off but am not using legacy mode in the UEFI NVRAM. I have not run into any issues running any UEFI capable Linux distro on this hardware and have used some where workarounds had to be used. Arch has no issues on this hardware that I've run into. I also often use an external monitor without issue on this with Arch and Gnome.

Carl Karl · 2014-10-23 19:46:29

With Linux 3.17, Toshiba Portege Z30 runs out of the box. (not before! Issues with backlight and touchpad)
Don't forget to install and start intel-ucode microcode (see wiki) to keep temperature low and fan off.

sredna · 2014-10-26 08:46:37

Acer V3 111P-4KY

The V3 111 series comes in various flavors, this one has a fanless fourcore intel processor and a intel touch screen.

I installed archlinux in UEFI mode, and boots with gummiboot. Partition table is GPT, partitions mainly btrfs.

When I originally installed arch, the touchpad was not fully functional, as the clickpad was not turned on as standard, and after resume, the clickpad was not working. My workaround was a small script that would unload and load the i2c_hid kernel module, wait two seconds and then disable/enable the device via xinput, and finally turn the clickpad on. Since the latest update the touchpad is working after resume. This touchpad is identified by xinput as "SYN1B7D:01 06CB:2991 UNKNOWN".

For reference, my script is here:

#!/usr/bin/bash
# fixpad - fix the touchpad on the acer v3-111P to work after resume on ArchLinux

sudo modprobe -r i2c_hid
sudo modprobe i2c_hid

sleep 2

PADID=`xinput | sed -n 's/.*SYN1B7D.*id=\([0-9][0-9]\).*/\1/p'  -`
xinput disable $PADID
xinput enable $PADID

synclient ClickPad=1

There is one outstanding with the laptop, namely bluetooth. It doesn't appear to work with any other linux distribution either.
lspci identifies the device as

Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)

Apart from that everything on the laptop works, including webcam, using external screens, sound, screen backlight control, all function keys excpet for fn + F3 for toggling wifi.

Last edited by sredna (2014-10-26 08:52:25)

Xabre · 2014-10-26 16:50:30

There is one outstanding with the laptop, namely bluetooth. It doesn't appear to work with any other linux distribution either.
lspci identifies the device as
Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
Apart from that everything on the laptop works, including webcam, using external screens, sound, screen backlight control, all function keys excpet for fn + F3 for toggling wifi.

options ath9k btcoex_enable=1

Solved that for me. Apparently it enables loading of both ath9k and ath3k at same time, and you need ath3k for bluetooth.

sbaragnaus · 2014-10-30 23:03:16

glenb77 wrote:

i installed Arch on my Asus x200ma touchscreen netbook/laptop. This is a low end / low priced unit with celeron 2815, 4gig ram and slow 500 gig hd.
installed arch with gnome 3 no login manager. pretty much everything works out of the box. to get fn brightness keys to work need acpi_osi= as a kernel option. but the keys are so laggy i just use the applet in gnome. i switched to kernel option video.use_native_backlight=1 to force only intel_backlight directory which allows gnome to set the brightness.

Hi,
I've just bought the same laptop but I can't get fn+f5 or fn+f6 button to work. I'm using xfce; if I set acpi_osi= as kernel option, brightness bar appears, but pressing fn+f5 or fn+f6 doesn't have any effect.

Please help me, thanks.

Whiskertoes · 2014-10-31 19:49:24

dell inspiron 7537. Awesome computer, most everything works out of the box.

mrunion · 2014-11-02 00:51:31

CyberPowerPC HFX7-800. Everything works.

topr · 2014-11-06 21:45:40

Hi Guys,

I'm new here but deeply interested in the subject.

I had some lucky with the driver built from github hid-rmi repo (branch rb14) on kernel 3.14 and 3.17 (released, not RC).
However pointing device detection falls back to mouse (3.14) and no device at all (3.17).

Could you please guide me briefly with a sequence of steps to enable touchpad on RB14 (2014)?
I'm a bit confused about the patches, how and against what they are supposed to be applied.

Could I be helpful with any logs or other tests? Please let me know.

Last edited by topr (2014-11-06 21:47:18)

Kotrfa · 2014-11-11 19:46:22

Samsung NP530u3b-a02cz . Everything works.

aduggan · 2014-11-12 00:36:22

OK, here is another set of patches. I think buttons should work, but I am kind of just guess since I don't have hardware to test so I might be wrong. Also, the first patch is a little less specific in hopes it would be able to be upstreamed.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ckm7hdr6scjmj … patch?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/rhbh8n5vrrdes … patch?dl=0

Richjn · 2014-11-12 05:53:47

Hi Andrew
Applied new patches against 3.17.2 which applied fine, booted into new kernel and no change I'm afraid, the left mouse button is non-funtional and shows no output when pressed with hid-recorder.
Right mouse and two finger scroll etc still work. If it helps crack this one I'm happy to ship my Razer laptop over to you if you can send it back when done, email me rj@iinet DOT net.au

Richard

aduggan · 2014-11-15 01:41:45

I was able to track down a coworker with a rb14 and I was able to convince him to let me run linux off an external USB drive for a few minutes. Pointing, scrolling, and right click did seem to work as reported. For me the left button sort of worked. The kernel was reporting left mouse button events which showed up in evtest, but single clicking didn't seem to do anything. However, if I clicked and held the button down I could drag things around. I will see if I can find anything in the kernel, but since the events are being reported it could be something in the Xserver not recognizing the events as a click.

Event: time 1415982152.816630, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 90001
Event: time 1415982152.816630, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 272 (BTN_LEFT), value 1
Event: time 1415982152.816630, -------------- EV_SYN ------------
Event: time 1415982152.908630, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 90001
Event: time 1415982152.908630, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 272 (BTN_LEFT), value 0

Also, I tweaked the first patch a bit. But, this doesn't impact anything related to the buttons.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ckm7hdr6scjmj … patch?dl=0

Richjn · 2014-11-15 02:36:26

Yes, click and hold works for me too! I should have tried a few more things before reporting it dead, sorry about that.

Richard

galux · 2014-11-22 05:17:33

jancici wrote:

I am using http://mysn.eu/schenker-s413 without problems

It seems a great laptop!

mr1shaggy · 2014-11-22 06:38:04

-Mid 2012 MacBook Pro 13" 9,2
-Intel i5 with built-in Intel hd4000 graphics
-8gb ram
-Two 1TB HDD (2TB total)
-Dual booted with OS X and Arch Linux with KDE 5.

All works fine out of the box except wi-fi. That can be a little tricky to set up. Dont know if dvd/cd drive works. Dont have one. I have the second hdd where the dvd drive should be(google data-doubler for macbook pro) but other than that works great! Does get a little hot at times depending on what I'm using/running. Fully booted within 10-15 seconds(havent actually timed it, just estimating).

Last edited by mr1shaggy (2014-11-22 06:41:30)

ephemeralCuriosities · 2014-11-24 07:24:12

Using a relatively-aged Alienware M17 (obtained in 2009). Has an Intel Core 2 Extreme x9100, an ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 and 8GB of memory.

Works perfectly fine other than OpenGL stuff not working correctly with some programs (Compton refuses to load if set to render with GLX, and Cairo-Dock just crashes if you try). I'm assuming it's related to the ATI graphics card, based on the note in the Cairo-Dock wiki page said, though there's always the possibility of me forgetting to install something (I'll have to test using the Catalyst drivers instead of the Mesa ones later). Still, putting it here since from what I've gathered ATI/AMD cards have issues sometimes and I don't think there's an Nvidia version of this laptop.

Oh, and the wi-fi occasionally refuses to start up but I don't know if that's hardware or netctl (goes away after a reboot, anyway, so no biggie).

aduggan · 2014-11-25 00:33:03

I was able to confirm that the left button not working correctly is a problem in userspace. I was able to fix it by creating a config file so that the Xserver would load the synaptics X input module and then setting the ClickPad option to 0. After that the left button seems to work. Since the kernel driver seems to be working I went ahead and submitted it upstream.

Here is my config file:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tvmsuk53qmsc8 … .conf?dl=0

Just
$ cp ~/Downloads/50-touchpad-synaptics.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d

Thanks for all the help testing!

Richjn · 2014-11-25 01:16:32

Hi Andrew
All good here!
Thanks for all of your work on this.

Richard

leonax · 2014-11-25 23:16:11

Using acer aspire v3 571G uefi dual bootin with windows 8.1. Once I got the partition set up using gparted everything went fine in beginners guide. Used gummiboot. Everything working so far in kde desktop. Used bumblebee for nvidia otimus graphics and have no issues although I don't play many games.

Onyros · 2014-11-25 23:47:39

Just traded my Thinkpad X220 for a T430s. Loving the extra pixels and was surprised to actually enjoy the new(ish) Thinkpad keyboards, as the X220 was the last one with the classic Thinkpad keyboards. The best part was that I just switched my SSD from the X220 into the T430s and everything (but the backlight controls) worked out of the box.

(T430s just with the integrated Intel graphics, no Nvidia)

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