Alienware 15

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Device	Status	Modules
Intel	Working	xf86-video-intel
Nvidia	Working	nouveau or nvidia
Touchpad	Working	xf86-input-synaptics
Camera	Working	linux-uvc
Wi-Fi	Working	iwlwifi
Bluetooth	Working	btusb
Ethernet	Working	alx
Card reader	Working	rtsx_usb

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Networking

Wi-Fi & Bluetooth:

Intel Corporation Wireless 7265

Wi-Fi - Supported out-of-the-box Bluetooth - TODO Wired ethernet:

Qualcomm Atheros Killer E220x Gigabit Ethernet Controller

Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter

As of the main website you can install the supported driver for QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter.

First download the board.bin file via wget and put it into your firmware library:

wget https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/raw/master/QCA6174/hw3.0/2.0/board.bin
sudo mkdir -p /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/
sudo mv board.bin /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/

and then download the specific firmware binary and move it into your firmware library:

wget https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/raw/master/QCA6174/hw3.0/2.0/firmware-4.bin_WLAN.RM.2.0-00180-QCARMSWPZ-1
sudo mv firmware-4.bin_WLAN.RM.2.0-00180-QCARMSWPZ-1 /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/firmware-4.bin

then reboot and you are good to go.

Input

Suported out-of-the-box

See more at: Synaptics

Keyboard: For Macro keys - see : Extra keyboard keys

NOTE: Keyboard does not have Menu key.

Video

Nvidia & Intel video card configuration: NVIDIA Optimus

NVIDIA Corporation GM204M [GeForce GTX 965M]

Currently not supported by Bumblebee (Tested on Alienware 15 R2) Please install only Intel driver via xf86-video-intel

Control of the light colors

Currently unsupported by pyAlienFx and alienfx[1] have some diff from previous version.
Probably supported by alienware-kbl, a software to manage the light colors with a graphical interface, python or bash commands.

Issues

Sound do not switch to headphone, after plug jack

For fix: Add

'options snd-hda-intel position_fix=1'

to

/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

Alienware 15 R3

Xorg freezes when starting with discrete graphics card OFF.

For fix: Add

 acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2009"

to Kernel options.

When booting mine did not freeze. However when trying to enable a second monitor, running xrandr, or anything related to low level display functionality it would. This fix makes multi-monitor work.