Acer Swift 5

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Device	Status	Modules
Intel graphics	Working	i915
Wireless	Working	iwlwifi
Bluetooth	Working	btintel
Audio	Working	snd_hda_intel
Touchpad	Working	xf86-input-synaptics
TouchScreen	Working
Camera	Working	uvcvideo
Fingerprint scanner	Not detected

General info about the Acer Swift 5 SF515-51T laptop. Everything pretty much works out of the box, follow standard documentation for details.

Disabling UEFI Secure Boot

To disable Secure Boot, set the supervisor password in the BIOS settings. Then you should be able to disable Secure Boot and boot Arch.

Changing SATA mode to AHCI

To change SATA mode to AHCI, in BIOS settings navigate to the Main tab. If you do not see SATA Mode settings press Ctrl+s and navigate tabs forwards and backward. SATA Mode option should now appear.

Configuration

Kernel boot parameters

The following parameters can be added to boot arguments as explained in Kernel parameters:

acpi_backlight=video to enable backlight setting from keyboard function keys
acpi_osi=Linux to enable multimedia special function keys
pci=nocrs to discard pci ACPI informations, may fix boot problems
i915.i915_enable_rc6=1 to enable deeper sleep states (power saving)
i915.i915_enable_fbc=1 to enable framebuffer compression (power saving)
usbcore.quirks=2386:433b:bk to enable touchscreen (2386:433b is the ID for the touchscreen from lsusb)

Kernel modules parameters

The following parameters enable:

selection of DSP sound driver (legacy) instead of SOF (after linux-5.4) still unstable (see FS#65635)
headset micro detection for sound capture
sound power saving

/etc/modprobe.d/swift5.conf

options snd-intel-dspcfg dsp_driver=1
options snd-hda-intel model=dell-headset-multi
options snd-hda-intel power_save=1