Laptops which run Arch

Valina · 2016-11-29 23:38:07

Asus F556UA-DM805T

Works out of the box.

The touchpad needed abit of extra love (installing xf86-input-synaptics and it runs smooth again).

rudzha · 2016-12-06 15:30:57

Asus ROG GL502VS UHD

Keyboard brightness
FN keys don't work, writing numbers to /sys/class/leds/asus::kbd_backlight/brightness does work.
Wiki suggested service that sets perms to allow everyone to read and write doesn't work as the file isn't present at the time.

Screen brightness
FN keys don't work, /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0 and /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video1 in place, but writing to neither of brightness files works.

Other than FN keys not working for kbd backlight and screen brightness not being adjustable at all, everything else works out of the box.

Last edited by rudzha (2016-12-06 15:31:32)

DrNutz · 2016-12-07 00:25:20

Dell inspiron 1525. Broadcom wireless is a pain, but everything else works.

compul · 2016-12-08 18:59:07

rudzha wrote:

Asus ROG GL502VS UHD
Screen brightness
FN keys don't work, /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0 and /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video1 in place, but writing to neither of brightness files works.
Other than FN keys not working for kbd backlight and screen brightness not being adjustable at all, everything else works out of the box.

xbacklight works just fine for screen brightness (I mapped them fo $mod+F5 & $mod+F6 for simplicity).

I'm having trouble with PC states (see https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1675025). What about you?

Last edited by compul (2016-12-09 10:39:04)

yomismo · 2016-12-11 23:45:59

HP Folio 9480m
Running i3
Loving it everyday...!

iv597 · 2016-12-12 16:54:04

HP Spectre x360 Late 2016 (the Kaby Lake one).

Basically works. Only the front (under the machine) two speakers (tinny, they're only tweeters) work, the main speaker grille (labeled "BANG & OLUFSEN") is silent. Otherwise, 12 hours estimated battery (that's reported by ACPI natively after turning it on in the "BIOS"), and my Dell WD15 USB-C dock works as well as it did with my now-former XPS 13 9350 - triple display works great, USB-PD is functional, etc. I have a hardware malfunction with the audio card on the dock so I can't say whether it works or not.

Wireless is occasionally a PITA w/r/t power saving. Throughput will tank and most packets will drop, a simple "iwconfig wlp1s0 power off" (don't ask why that doesn't turn the card off, I have no clue) seems to fix. This happens regardless of whether TLP is running.

Touchscreen was technically not tested on Arch, but on an Antergos live CD, but I can at least confirm that multitouch on said panel works on Linux (that was a Gnome session) in general.

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Taijian · 2016-12-13 08:23:40

iv597 wrote:

HP Spectre x360 Late 2016 (the Kaby Lake one).
Basically works. Only the front (under the machine) two speakers (tinny, they're only tweeters) work, the main speaker grille (labeled "BANG & OLUFSEN") is silent. Otherwise, 12 hours estimated battery (that's reported by ACPI natively after turning it on in the "BIOS"), and my Dell WD15 USB-C dock works as well as it did with my now-former XPS 13 9350 - triple display works great, USB-PD is functional, etc. I have a hardware malfunction with the audio card on the dock so I can't say whether it works or not.
Wireless is occasionally a PITA w/r/t power saving. Throughput will tank and most packets will drop, a simple "iwconfig wlp1s0 power off" (don't ask why that doesn't turn the card off, I have no clue) seems to fix. This happens regardless of whether TLP is running.
Touchscreen was technically not tested on Arch, but on an Antergos live CD, but I can at least confirm that multitouch on said panel works on Linux (that was a Gnome session) in general.

I'm thinking about getting this one, too (and then combine it with a Razer Core for gaming). May I thus ask you a question, in the interest of science? Does the gyroscope work in conjunction with screen orientation, i.e. when you try to use it as a 'tablet', does the screen turn with the computer?

iv597 · 2016-12-13 15:29:07

Taijian wrote:

iv597 wrote:
HP Spectre x360 Late 2016 (the Kaby Lake one).
Basically works. Only the front (under the machine) two speakers (tinny, they're only tweeters) work, the main speaker grille (labeled "BANG & OLUFSEN") is silent. Otherwise, 12 hours estimated battery (that's reported by ACPI natively after turning it on in the "BIOS"), and my Dell WD15 USB-C dock works as well as it did with my now-former XPS 13 9350 - triple display works great, USB-PD is functional, etc. I have a hardware malfunction with the audio card on the dock so I can't say whether it works or not.
Wireless is occasionally a PITA w/r/t power saving. Throughput will tank and most packets will drop, a simple "iwconfig wlp1s0 power off" (don't ask why that doesn't turn the card off, I have no clue) seems to fix. This happens regardless of whether TLP is running.
Touchscreen was technically not tested on Arch, but on an Antergos live CD, but I can at least confirm that multitouch on said panel works on Linux (that was a Gnome session) in general.
I'm thinking about getting this one, too (and then combine it with a Razer Core for gaming). May I thus ask you a question, in the interest of science? Does the gyroscope work in conjunction with screen orientation, i.e. when you try to use it as a 'tablet', does the screen turn with the computer?

I didn't actually try that functionality in GNOME while I had it booted, and use the machine primarily as a laptop with tiling WMs so can't test on my currently booted Arch install. I will say that it's definitely not baked into firmware/BIOS anywhere, though, nor is disabling of keyboard when flipped back (both of those would need done in software).

M4R10zM0113R · 2016-12-15 07:09:34

Dell Vostro 3458, only issue is that it reboots rather than shutting down.

heliumtt · 2016-12-29 18:20:46

Fujitsu M2010
All works out of the box: graphics, X, wayland, power management / suspend / hibernate.

LuigiR0jas_ · 2016-12-31 00:51:17

Asus X450CC, purring like a cat.

ireng · 2017-01-01 20:01:37

x1 carbon 2nd gen .
not every thing works fine . it has given me hell of time . Considering purchasing a Linux compatible laptop

petecan · 2017-01-02 14:14:29

Schenker H507 (one of many incarnations of the clevo p650rp6/p651rp6). Everything works out of the box except for the touchpad, as of early 2017 it is necessary to use some workarounds involving a kernel booting flag and installing newer packages in the testing repo. I have not tried enabling optimus/mshybrid mode in the bios, but it is known to be problematic.

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salafrance · 2017-01-06 15:24:11

Lenovo X220 with 8GB RAM, a 120GB Samsung Evo SSD, running Gnome 3.

Installation was fast and easy, but battery power management, the buttons and touchpad all required a minimal amount of fiddling.

It runs like a charm, it's quiet and cool.

0xR463 · 2017-01-10 19:25:37

My job gave me an Apple Macbook Pro 9,2 with 16GB RAM, 700GB HDD, Intel Core i7. I have been running Arch on it since I started here in May 2016.

Issues with wireless. Still pretty buggy from time to time. Way better than OS X though.

WEREWOLFGHOST · 2017-01-12 17:53:27

Well...
lenovo G40-70m
8GB RAM
intel i5 4cores
500GB HDD

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NMbazima · 2017-01-13 07:02:06

Have a HP Probook 6570b
CPU i5 Duo Core
RAM 12GiB
HDD 1 TiB

had a few issues with secondary 20" screen, found a short cut by running this command each time i boot:
$ xrandr --output VGA1 --auto --left-of LVDS1

Might search for a permanent solution when i have a chance

Also have a

Acer Aspire One
RAM 4GiB
HDD 350GiB
CPU Atom

basically its my nice portable laptop on the go with an extra battery bank for longer computing

srivats2 · 2017-01-16 20:13:29

Dell/Alienware M11x R2. Works perfectly with Bumblebee for the GT 335M and also with proper CUDA support

Despoillender · 2017-01-18 23:07:19

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jc-arch · 2017-01-21 13:36:37

MSI G72 2QE Dominator Pro

Touchpad didn't work as expected with the base out of the box, but libinput installation made it work perfectly
Backlight doesn't work out of the box, kernel options don't work but xbacklight does. Binding keys to xbacklight does the trick
Keyboard back lighting didn't work out of the box, but there are implementations to run it. I forked one myself and they're functional now
Camera and microphone weren't recognized or installed out of the box, haven't installed them yet but I'm quite sure it's possible to get them working, just didn't have time to set it up yet
Bluetooth is not working out of the box but it's more a known kernel issue, waiting for 4.9 to be released on stable repo to check if it solves the issue

olegabrielz · 2017-01-25 11:04:04

Lenovo ideapad 700-15ISK

i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz
Intel HD Graphics 530 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M (GM107M)
Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3165 Plus Bluetooth
Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller

Running on Arch (only) and everything works smooth.

Minbari · 2017-01-27 15:02:06

Asus X59GL

Intel P8400 / NVIDIA GeForce 8200M G / 4GB DDR2 / 256 GB Crucial MX100 / Qualcomm Atheros AR928X / NVIDIA MCP79 Ethernet.

Now it runs Arch GNU/Linux for four years, previously it runs other Unix-like systems (Slackware & FreeBSD) for 5 yrs. Also I intend to use this machine until it will collapse.

Fred-Jones123 · 2017-02-14 01:22:45

ASUS X540L with a new SSD and 8GB of RAM added on, it runs better than my custom Arch Linux desktop.

lorcopotia · 2017-02-15 13:24:42

Hi guys, I'm using Acer Aspire E15 i5-5200U and everything is working fine and smooth. Battery life not so good but it's ok. I'm using KDE by the way... very fast!

doomnonius · 2017-02-18 19:54:32

Lenovo V570.
Been running Arch for a couple years now but only just started really actually getting serious about what it has to offer.

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