Acer Aspire E5-575
Booting from Arch Linux ISO
In order to boot from the Arch Linux ISO, hit F2 to enter UEFI settings (InsydeH20 Setup Utility rev. 5.0). Then set the supervisor password. From there you can disable Secure Boot and boot from any media.
Configuration
UEFI will not boot from menu entries created by efibootmgr. Instead, use bcfg in the UEFI Shell (v.2) to add an entry.
Use Secure Boot with trusted EFI executables
You can use Secure Boot and mark EFI executables as trusted through the UEFI settings. The executables must end with .efi. For example, if you use EFISTUB to boot the Linux kernel directly, you must copy vmlinuz-linux to vmlinuz-linux.efi and then mark that file as trusted in the UEFI settings.
Whenever the executable is updated, it might have to be removed from the trusted list and then re-added as trusted in the UEFI settings. It is only possible to remove all trusted entries at once, not individually.
See Secure Boot for other options.
Function keys
Many function keys work without any need for changing settings. Suspend (Fn+F4), blanking the screen (Fn+F6), touchpad disable/enable (Fn-F7), and keyboard backlight disable/enable (Fn+F9) all work. Additionally Fn+Del is mapped to Ins correctly, as well as Fn+12 to Scroll Lock.
To add functionality for brightness keys, Fn+Left and Fn+Right, append the following parameters to your kernel boot line:
acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor
Other function keys are exposed as media keys and can be added as keyboard shortcuts for the desired operation.
Function Key (Fn+)
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Media Key |
|---|---|
F3
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XF86WLAN
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F8
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XF86AudioMute
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Up
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XF86AudioRaiseVolume
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Down
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XF86AudioLowerVolume
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Home
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XF86AudioPlay
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Page Up
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XF86AudioStop
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Page Down
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XF86AudioPrev
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End
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XF86AudioNext
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Hardware video acceleration
The laptop contains a 9th generation Intel GPU (Intel HD 620) codenamed "Kaby Lake". To enable hardware video acceleration install the following packages: xf86-video-intel, libva-intel-driver, and libvdpau-va-gl. Follow the instructions on Intel graphics and Hardware video acceleration. You may need additional packages or configuration to utilize hardware acceleration for your particular application.
When enabled you will see something like the following when running vainfo:
vainfo
libva info: VA-API version 1.1.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_1
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA-API version: 1.1 (libva 2.1.0)
vainfo: Driver version: Intel i965 driver for Intel(R) Kaby Lake - 2.1.0
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
VAProfileH264MultiviewHigh : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264MultiviewHigh : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileH264StereoHigh : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264StereoHigh : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileVC1Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileNone : VAEntrypointVideoProc
VAProfileJPEGBaseline : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileJPEGBaseline : VAEntrypointEncPicture
VAProfileVP8Version0_3 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVP8Version0_3 : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileHEVCMain10 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain10 : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileVP9Profile0 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVP9Profile0 : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileVP9Profile2 : VAEntrypointVLD
Additionally you should see that i965 is used for the DRI driver and va_gl is used for the VDPAU driver:
grep -iE 'vdpau | dri driver' ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log
[ 16.124] (II) intel(0): [DRI2] DRI driver: i965 [ 16.124] (II) intel(0): [DRI2] VDPAU driver: va_gl
For Vulkan support install the vulkan-intel package.
Hardware identification
lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0408:a030 Quanta Computer, Inc. Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04ca:3015 Lite-On Technology Corp. Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 02) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 620 (rev 02) 00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP USB 3.0 xHCI Controller (rev 21) 00:14.2 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Thermal subsystem (rev 21) 00:15.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #0 (rev 21) 00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP CSME HECI #1 (rev 21) 00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 21) 00:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #9 (rev f1) 00:1d.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 9d1a (rev f1) 00:1d.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 9d1b (rev f1) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device 9d4e (rev 21) 00:1f.2 Memory controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PMC (rev 21) 00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio (rev 21) 00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP SMBus (rev 21) 02:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 31) 03:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8411B PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01) 03:00.1 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 12)
lscpu
Architecture: x86_64 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 4 On-line CPU(s) list: 0-3 Thread(s) per core: 2 Core(s) per socket: 2 Socket(s): 1 NUMA node(s): 1 Vendor ID: GenuineIntel CPU family: 6 Model: 142 Model name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-7100U CPU @ 2.40GHz Stepping: 9 CPU MHz: 700.122 CPU max MHz: 2400.0000 CPU min MHz: 400.0000 BogoMIPS: 4800.00 Virtualization: VT-x L1d cache: 32K L1i cache: 32K L2 cache: 256K L3 cache: 3072K NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-3 Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc art arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf tsc_known_freq pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch cpuid_fault epb invpcid_single pti tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid mpx rdseed adx smap clflushopt intel_pt xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves dtherm arat pln pts hwp hwp_notify hwp_act_window hwp_epp
Known issues
Trusted Platform Module
You may have the following entries in your journal:
Feb 17 09:58:29 kernel: platform MSFT0101:00: failed to claim resource 1: [mem 0xfed40000-0xfed40fff] Feb 17 09:58:29 kernel: acpi MSFT0101:00: platform device creation failed: -16
These are related to the Trusted Platform Module (TPM), which can be safely disabled in the UEFI settings if you do not use TPM.
Not a Dell system error
You may get the following error in your journal:
dell_smbios: Unable to run on non-Dell system
To remove this error, blacklist the dell_smbios kernel module.