Laptops which run Arch

Azphreal · 2016-09-04 03:56:11

Acer Aspire V3-572G. Arch works, but I've had hitches every time I've installed it (multiple times, because I fucked things up). What I've found:

Ethernet card tends to drop signal and fails to pick up an IP without manual activation or NetworkManager, wicd, etc.
Most backlight programs require fiddling to work, because the info is stored in a different place to what's expected
Haven't tried to use the GeForce 840M graphics card yet, don't know how it runs on nouveau
Touchpad obviously requires playing with the Synaptics driver to use well
UEFI is a charm, as always
I think I need to play with systemd/laptop-mode-tools a bit to get suspend on lid close, but I haven't done so yet

Full specs and info:
Processor: 2.40GHz Intel Core i7-5500U
Memory: 8GB DDR3L
Graphics: Intel HD 5500 / Nvidia GeForce 840M 2GB
Disks: 1TB hard drive / CD drive (which I've swapped out for a 250GB SSD for boot, much better)
Display: 15.6" 1376x768 LCD
Have Windows 10 on most of the SSD, 64GB for swap/Arch. Only keeping Windows on because I need OneNote/Office/compatablity for uni work, and because I lose 60% of my framerate playing League through Wine.

Last edited by Azphreal (2016-09-04 03:58:03)

dmz · 2016-09-06 14:24:28

HP Elitebook 4850p. Everything works like a charm, zero issues!

Jujstme · 2016-09-06 18:42:15

Just installed Arch on an old Acer Aspire 2920.
It worked fine in 2008, so no reason to think it would not work today.

And, as a matter of fact, still works perfectly.

Awebb · 2016-09-06 19:16:59

Jujstme wrote:

Just installed Arch on an old Acer Aspire 2920.
It worked fine in 2008, so no reason to think it would not work today.
And, as a matter of fact, still works perfectly.

I once had an EeePC, that only worked, when the sum of the digits of the kernel version was even.

markand · 2016-09-07 11:38:05

I have a HP Probook 4510s.

Absolutely everything work out of the box.

Only the express card was untested.

jethronsun7 · 2016-09-21 12:23:08

I run my Arch on my Mac Pro(2013), with my favorite KDE and Awesome WM.

I use uefi to dual boot Arch Linux.

GTRONICK · 2016-09-22 19:49:58

DELL Latitude E5420. All seems to work except the laptop lid suspend.

SD Card reader: OK
Brightness adjust: OK
Volume and mute keys: OK
Power key: OK
Temperature regulation: OK
Touchpad: OK
Keyboard: OK
Battery life: OK
Ethernet: OK
WiFi: OK (Out of the box. Driver installation makes it unusable. )
Fan: OK
Speakers: OK
Microphone: OK
Laptop Lid: Triggers lock screen action, but cannot suspend. (on XFCE).
Virtualization: OK
Clock and time sync: OK
Indicator LEDs: OK
Fn Keys: OK

marcus-s · 2016-09-26 19:28:47

Lenovo IdeaPad Flex15 (dual mode multitouch semi-retina display laptop)

SD Card reader: OK
Brightness adjust: OK
Volume and mute keys: OK
Power key: OK
Temperature regulation: Unknown
Touchpad: OK
Keyboard: OK
Battery life: OK
Ethernet: OK
WiFi: OK (Out of the box)
Fan: OK
Speakers: OK
Microphone: OK
Laptop Lid: OK at least with GNOME 3
Virtualization: OK
Clock and time sync: OK
Indicator LEDs: OK
Fn Keys: OK

Multitouch: OK in modern GUI environments. Do not try it on exotic WMs like awesome or i3.

somekool · 2016-10-03 20:29:48

I have a NEC HZ550 since June of 2015 and I love it !!!!

Chocopuff · 2016-10-04 05:21:51

13" Retina MacBook Pro Early 2015

Everything is working well so far, have yet to configure laptop lid. All the issues I have encountered were easy fixes.

Asirec · 2016-10-04 09:49:58

Everything works as it should on my Acer Aspire V17 Nitro (VN7-791G-759Q).

Today has been the third time I installed Arch on it over the course of three years and I have never had any problems with it (apart from accidentally wiping partitions, whoops).

Ternvein · 2016-10-05 11:22:15

Everything works on Asus K751S, though some configuring needed for ACPI to work.

wenugo · 2016-10-20 21:46:16

Lenovo Thinkpad T440p

Quite high power consumption at the moment, it needs still some tuning (nvidia gpu/intel graphics?). Almost everything working out of the box, I don't remember real problems.

Last edited by wenugo (2016-10-20 21:56:02)

Inixi · 2016-10-21 08:13:57

Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga S1
Most of the features work:
- touchpad with synaptics driver on Xorg and libinput on Wayland.
- trackpoint
- multitouch screen
- CPU scaling
- bluetooth
- accelerometer and screen rotation (sometimes it works, sometimes not, don't know why)
- Intel graphics with open source drivers is awesome
- sound
- docking station with 2 screens connected (3 with laptop built-in screen in total)
What does not work is:
- fan control (sometimes CPU gets 70 degrees celsius when using multimedia and I can do nothing about that)
- Miracast which obviously is still WIP

k3v0 · 2016-10-24 22:33:38

Toshiba Satellite Radius P55W
Everything works with minimal fuss; was able to solve any issues that popped up by referencing the Arch wiki and forum.

pirateofms · 2016-10-30 03:34:24

Dell Inspiron 15 3558. Wifi and BT seem to work fine out of the box. Webcam works.

Drehstromlampe · 2016-11-01 23:16:50

HP Probook 440 G3

everything works. fingerprint scanner untested.

Falstaff · 2016-11-05 02:26:24

Sony Vaio VPCF234FD

Everything works.

Falstaff · 2016-11-05 03:53:36

Kibou wrote:

Falstaff wrote:
Acer Cloudbook 14 works very well with Arch and other distributions. Just need to add some options to the kernel parameters at boot, I've documented the whole process in the Wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Acer_Cloudbook
Just registered and wanted to thank you on the guide. Awful Win10 machine (did the USB backup) but brilliant for Arch. Everything worked out of the box but the touchpad too sensitive for me, installed Synaptic drivers - much better.
It's hard to judge battery life so far, full charge is something like 14 hours. Currently at 59% still over 9 hours. I've turned down backlight to 2000, probably can live with 1500. So far the ram has not been an issue but I'm running a light system - i3, terminals, & a browser. I have no swap so I'm crossing my fingers on that. A few random freeze from sleep (opening lid), could be lack of swap? Or it could be my endless tinkering with config files and systemd setups at this point. Still need to blacklist rtsx_usb_ms.
IMO, the best laptops have a point of view. This Acer is perfect for my needs, long lasting battery and fanless. Thanks again for the guide.

Months later but hey, you're welcome!

alegrey91 · 2016-11-05 15:39:26

Custom laptop by PCspecialist!

Everithing is ok. Only battery life is much low. For the rest, nothing to complain about.

On monday, will arrive my new laptop. A macbook pro 13 early 2k15. Then i will ask you what will be wrong.

mluts · 2016-11-05 21:09:18

My laptop is
HP ProBook 440 G3

and i have something to say about it.

At first, sometimes after reboot wifi doesn't work. This is somehow related to it's dual-band'ness. I should kill -15 all wpa_supplicant and restart networkmanager to get this working.
I see this error in wifi-menu when wifi doesn't work:

Scanning for networks... nl80211: Could not set interface 'p2p-dev-wlp2s0' UP
p2p-dev-wlp2s0: Failed to initialize driver interface

Also, i can't switch to 2.5Mhz wifi from 5Mhz without turning off the wifi. For this i do "nmcli radio wifi off/on"

Second. Fingerprint device works only with vfs495-daemon and requires to patch libfprint to get working. More on this https://balintbanyasz.wordpress.com/201 … ntu-14-04/
It is not worth it in my opinion.

Third. I have constant kernel warnings in syslog

Nov 05 22:41:09 starfighter kernel: pcieport 0000:00:1c.5: AER: Multiple Corrected error received: id=00e5
Nov 05 22:41:09 starfighter kernel: pcieport 0000:00:1c.5: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Corrected, type=Physical Layer, id=00e5(Transmitter 
Nov 05 22:41:09 starfighter kernel: pcieport 0000:00:1c.5:   device [8086:9d15] error status/mask=000010c1/00002000
Nov 05 22:41:09 starfighter kernel: pcieport 0000:00:1c.5:    [ 0] Receiver Error        
Nov 05 22:41:09 starfighter kernel: pcieport 0000:00:1c.5:    [ 6] Bad TLP               
Nov 05 22:41:09 starfighter kernel: pcieport 0000:00:1c.5:    [ 7] Bad DLLP              
Nov 05 22:41:09 starfighter kernel: pcieport 0000:00:1c.5:    [12] Replay Timer Timeout  
Nov 05 22:41:09 starfighter kernel: pcieport 0000:00:1c.5: AER: Corrected error received: id=00e5
Nov 05 22:41:09 starfighter kernel: pcieport 0000:00:1c.5: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Corrected, type=Physical Layer, id=00e5(Receiver ID)
Nov 05 22:41:09 starfighter kernel: pcieport 0000:00:1c.5:   device [8086:9d15] error status/mask=00000001/00002000
Nov 05 22:41:09 starfighter kernel: pcieport 0000:00:1c.5:    [ 0] Receiver Error        
Nov 05 22:41:14 starfighter root[3894]: ACPI battery action undefined: PNP0C0A:00
Nov 05 22:41:15 starfighter kernel: pcieport 0000:00:1c.5: AER: Corrected error received: id=00e5
Nov 05 22:41:15 starfighter kernel: pcieport 0000:00:1c.5: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Corrected, type=Physical Layer, id=00e5(Receiver ID)
Nov 05 22:41:15 starfighter kernel: pcieport 0000:00:1c.5:   device [8086:9d15] error status/mask=00000001/00002000
Nov 05 22:41:15 starfighter kernel: pcieport 0000:00:1c.5:    [ 0] Receiver Error         (First)
Nov 05 22:41:19 starfighter kernel: pcieport 0000:00:1c.5: AER: Corrected error received: id=00e5

There are two ways to fix this: disable advanced error messaging for this device using setpci or get my manufacturer to fix this (which sounds for me almost impossible).

Also, i often see this:

Oct 27 00:23:29 starfighter kernel: r8169 0000:01:00.0 enp1s0: rtl_counters_cond == 1 (loop: 1000, delay: 10).
Oct 27 00:23:32 starfighter kernel: r8169 0000:01:00.0 enp1s0: rtl_counters_cond == 1 (loop: 1000, delay: 10).
Oct 27 00:23:35 starfighter kernel: r8169 0000:01:00.0 enp1s0: rtl_counters_cond == 1 (loop: 1000, delay: 10).
Oct 27 00:23:38 starfighter kernel: r8169 0000:01:00.0 enp1s0: rtl_counters_cond == 1 (loop: 1000, delay: 10).
Oct 27 00:23:41 starfighter kernel: r8169 0000:01:00.0 enp1s0: rtl_counters_cond == 1 (loop: 1000, delay: 10).
Oct 27 00:23:44 starfighter kernel: r8169 0000:01:00.0 enp1s0: rtl_counters_cond == 1 (loop: 1000, delay: 10).
Oct 27 00:23:47 starfighter kernel: r8169 0000:01:00.0 enp1s0: rtl_counters_cond == 1 (loop: 1000, delay: 10).

And i don't like this.

Also, if i leave headphones plugged in when laptop is suspended and wake it with headphones plugged out - the sound is broken, there are strange sound glitches such as "older" sound overtakes current sound, this accompanies warnings about snd_hda_intel in syslog. Reconfiguring pulseaudio doesn't help, rmmod/modprobe and giving some options to kernel module doesn't help.

But i close my eyes on this, because the laptop is inexpensive, works fast and battery lives long.

@rock · 2016-11-08 07:57:03

Lenovo Ideapad Z 500
Everything works out of the box for quiet a long time. But recently having issues with fan (full speed & noisy) on kernel 4.8.6-1-ARCH
Except this I am happy with my Linux Box.

guilouv · 2016-11-08 20:11:04

I had a Lenovo U410 and now I'm running Arch on a Vaio S (VJS131X0211B). Actually I never read anything on Arch on this latter but it works great.

dillebidum · 2016-11-16 19:12:39

Using a Dell Inspiron 15 5559. Works perfectly on Arch. It's too heavy and weak, but maybe I just have high intentions.

dominik.w.90 · 2016-11-29 16:09:18

I have no problems with Lenovo ThinkPad x230, t410, t61 and t43 since many years on (Arch)Linux.

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