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Aspire

Model version	Date	Video	Sound	Ethernet	Wireless	Bluetooth	Power management	Modem	Other	Remarks
Aspire 5100-3825	0.8 (Voodoo)	ATI Radeon Xpress 1100	Intel	Realtek	Atheros	–	–	untested	Hot keys: untested	–
Aspire 1501LMi	0.9 (Don't Panic)	ATI Radeon 9600: HW acceleration only with proprietary driver	VIA: OK	Broadcom: OK	untested	none	Suspend to RAM: ?? Disk: Yes Battery: Yes CPU frequency scaling: Yes	untested	Hot keys: untested	–
Aspire 5024	0.7.2	ATI Radeon X700	AC97: OK	Realtek: OK	Broadcom 4318 Needs acer_apci + firmware or ndiswrapper driver	–	Battery: Yes Suspend: Video and Wi-Fi problems CPU frequency scaling: powernow-k8 driver	untested	–	–
Aspire 7720	2009.02	Intel i965	ALC268: working OK	Broadcom BCM5787M (tg3): OK	Intel 3945: Needs microcode	Detected, works	Battery: Yes Suspend: Seems to work ok Hibernation: still flaky (often hangs in the middle of restoring)	With linuxant drivers, might work	Web cam driver: uvcvideo; card reader: only SD cards seem to work; special keys (Acer Arcade, direct access to browser/mail) seem to not work; volume knob at the side is seen as a multimedia key.	FireWire seems to be recognized, untested. For 64-bit, update BIOS to fix ACPI and wireless problems.
Aspire E5-573	2015.12	Intel i965	Yes	Yes	Yes	not detected	Yes	–	–	–
Aspire 7730	2009.08 i686 & x86_64	Intel Mobile 4 Series i810 Autoconfiguration works. Compiz OK, with indirect rendering.	ALC888 Playback & internal microphone: OK; microphone input socket: not tested options snd-hda-intel model=laptop added to /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf to get headphone output working	Yes	Yes with iwlagn	None	Suspend to RAM: OK Suspend to disk crashes on i686, OK on x86_64 CPU frequency scaling: OK (using cpufreq)	Untested	Hot keys: OK Web cam: OK HDMI: untested Card reader: untested	Problem booting install CD Solved with ln -sf /dev/sr0 /dev/archiso at ramfs
Aspire 4935	2009.08 x86_64	Nvidia GeForce 9300M GS	Yes Intel HDA	Yes	Yes	Untested	Suspend to RAM: OK Suspend to disk: OK Frequency scaling: OK (using cpufreq)	Untested	Hot keys: OK Audio touch panel NOT working Web cam: OK HDMI: OK	By "audio touch panel" I mean the illuminated plastic hot key touch panel on the right-hand side of the keyboard.
Aspire 2920Z	2009.2	Intel Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller	Yes Intel 82801H	Yes Broadcom NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express	Yes Broadcom BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN	–	Suspend to RAM: OK. Suspend to disk: OK. CPU frequency scaling: untested	Untested	Hot keys: web, mail, and wireless work. Blue e on the left: not working Synaptic touchpad: OK	Not everything worked fine on fresh installation. Requires some work.
Aspire 5735z	archlinux-2014.09.03-dual	Intel GMA 4500M	Yes	Yes	Yes	Untested	Suspend to RAM: OK. Suspend to disk: OK. CPU frequency scaling: untested	Untested	Hot keys: OK (except Bluetooth: untested) Synaptic Touchpad: OK	–
Aspire E1-531	archlinux-2016.07.01-dual	Intel HD 2000	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes(Using laptop-mode-tools)	Untested	Hot keys: Sound, sleep, wireless, brightness hotkeys(fn+f1/f2/...) mostly works. Energy manager may required. Synaptic Touchpad: OK Webcam: OK HDMI: OK	Tested with GNOME and Xfce, works well.
Aspire V3-572G	Current	Intel HD 5500 NVIDIA GeForce 840M working with bumblebee	Yes	Realtek: OK	Yes	Yes	Suspend to RAM: Yes Disk: Yes Battery: Yes CPU frequency scaling: untested	Untested	Webcam: OK Hotkeys: OK Synaptic Touchpad: OK HDMI: OK	Ran into trouble with suspend/resume + nvidia prop. drivers ("gpu has fallen off the bus"). Fix/workaround: appended rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay=1 acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2009" to kernel parameters.
Aspire F5-573G-7791	2016.12.01	Yes NVIDIA GeForce 940MX (NVIDIA Device 179c), Bumblebee 2016.02.05	Yes Intel Device 9d71 Driver: snd_hda_intel	Yes Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411	Yes Intel Wireless 3165	Yes	Suspend to RAM: Yes Disk: Not tested Battery: Yes CPU frequency scaling: Unknown	–	Webcam: Untested Hot keys: OK Synaptic Touchpad: OK HDMI: Untested USB: 1x USB 2.0: OK 2x USB 3.0: OK 1x USB 3.1 Type-C: Untested	(BIOS v1.15) After UEFI installation, must set Supervisor password, add bootloader as trusted, and boot with SecureBoot. BIOS v1.25 reportedly has problems on similar E5 models that were fixed in 1.31 onward.
Aspire E5-575G-5538	2017.02.01	Yes Nvidia GeForce 940MX (NVIDIA Device 179c), works with proprietary NVIDIA drivers dkms version, Bumblebee dkms version, Nouveau works too, gives better battery life but significantly less performance as of 10 Aug 2017	Yes HDA-Intel	Yes Realtek, needed to set MAC in a profile in NetworkManager settings	Yes Qualcomm Atheros	Pairing works Sending files works Receiving files works Bluetooth PAN works	Suspend to RAM: Yes Disk: Untested Battery: Yes, but battery life is not great, needs TLP installed for better battery life CPU frequency scaling: Yes	Untested, USB modems should work out of the box	Webcam: OK Hot keys: OK Touchpad: Works with synaptics/Libinput. Libinput works the best (and supports gestures). HDMI: OK USB: 1x USB 2.0: OK 2x USB 3.0: OK 1x USB 3.1 Type-C: OK	USB drive detection took some work (looking in the BIOS, disabling secure boot). Installation was not successful on the first try. In order to boot I enabled secureboot, cleared trusted bootloaders at secureboot settings, saved, rebooted, entered BIOS, added GRUB as trusted UEFI file, saved, rebooted, entered BIOS, disabled secureboot. Grub will appear in the boot order list even if secureboot is disabled. Must be done at each firmware update.
Aspire E5-553-T337	2018.08.07	Perfectly OK, AMD Radeon R5	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Everything works fine. No complaints.
Aspire E5-422G-68PL	2020.07.21	AMD Radeon™ R4 Mobile Graphics (Godavari/Beema) AMD Radeon™ R5 M335 (Exo)	Realtek ALC255	Realtek RTL8168	Qualcomm Atheros NFA435 QCA9377	Qualcomm Atheros NFA435 QCA9377	SuspendToRam & SuspendToDisk issues when R5 GPU gets used in any way (stuck driver)	–	Touchpad does not work with "Advanced Features" enabled in bios, on disable the touchpad is capable to do even more things on linux than with the option enabled on windows; scrolling and gestures on MSWindows gets disabled without "Advanced Features". All keys get recognized out-of-box. You would want to tweak or disable the power button action. Using the Radeon driver instead of AMDGPU creates 2 Dummy Backlight devices on early-boot that get deleted on user-space and shows some warnings about the system not being able to restore settings; this can be ignored or fixed either by forcing usage of AMDGPU or editing the backlight restore udev rule to skip them	–
Aspire 3 A315-41-R09T	2019.03.01	Vega 8: Works out-of-the-box with open source drivers.	Intel HDA; OK.	Works OK with r8168 module installed.	QCA9377, OK.	Yes	Suspend to RAM: OK Suspend to disk: OK CPU Frequency Scaling: OK	–	Webcam: Yes Hotkeys: OK Synaptic Touchpad: OK (supports libinput-gestures) HDMI: OK Microphone: OK	Everything works fine, but you have to stick to a modern kernel. Also, it is important to add ivrs_ioapic[4]=00:14.0 ivrs_ioapic[5]=00:00.2 as a kernel parameter on grub (or whatever boot loader of your choice), because it otherwise works erratically and gets stuck either on boot or at shutdown. To properly install Arch Linux, it is a good idea to use noapic as boot parameter, it will run smoothly. Do not use it later, though, as it will disable the I2C touchpad and some other relevant stuff.
Aspire 3 A315-51-524S	2019.11.11	Intel HD Graphics 620; OK	Intel HDA; OK.	Yes	QCA9377, OK.	Yes	Suspend to RAM: OK Suspend to disk: OK CPU Frequency Scaling: OK Battery: OK	–	Webcam: OK Hotkeys: OK Touchpad: OK (supports libinput-gestures) HDMI: OK Microphone: OK	Everything works fine. "Advanced" touchpad mode in UEFI works with a modern kernel.
Aspire 3 A315-53G-52A4	2019.11.01	Intel UHD Graphics 620, Nvidia MX130: Works out of the box with Nouveau, not tested with proprietary NVIDIA drivers.	Intel HDA, OK	Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411, OK	Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377, OK	ΟΚ	Suspend to RAM: OK Suspend to Disk: Untested CPU Frequency Scaling: OK	–	Webcam: OK Microphone: OK Hotkeys: OK Touchpad: OK, supports gestures HDMI: OK	–
Aspire E5-476G	2019.06.01	Intel UHD: Works Nvidia MX150: Untested	Yes	Untested	Yes	Not detected	Suspend to RAM: OK Hibernate: OK Battery: OK	Untested	Webcam: OK Hotkeys: OK Synaptic Touchpad: OK, Support Gestures	–
Acer Aspire 5 A515-51G-5072	2020.06.01	Intel UHD 620 Graphics: Works using i915 driver Nvidia GeForce MX150: Works using both nouveau and proprietary drivers.	Intel HD Audio: Works using snd_hda_intel driver Laptop Microphone Input: Works Headphone Microphone Input: Works	Realtek RTL8169SC: Works using r8169 driver	Qualcomm Atheros 9377: Works using ath10k_pci driver	Lite-On Corp: Works using ath10k_pci driver	CPU Frequency Scaling: Works using intel_pstate driver Suspend to RAM: Works Hibernate to Disk: Works Battery Charging: Works Display Backlight Control: Works Keyboard Backlight Control: Works	Not Tested Yet	Webcam: Works Hotkeys: Work Elantech Touchpad: Works Touchpad Gestures: Work using libinput Realtek Card Reader: Works USB 2.0 Ports: Work USB 3.0 Port: Works USB Type-C Port: Works HDMI Port: Works	Latest Stable BIOS Update: V1.20 Disable Secure Boot in the BIOS. Enable Advanced Touchpad Gestures in the BIOS. After powering on or restarting, bootable USB detection by the BIOS can be slow at times, need to restart the laptop again. Install TLP & edit /etc/tlp.conf for nvidia, host, ahci power management to get extra battery life. Add pci=noaer as boot flags to disable error messages for Wi-Fi during boot, resume and shutdown. If the Wi-Fi speeds get throttled while on battery power, disable Wi-Fi power management.

AspireOne

Model version	Date	Video	Sound	Ethernet	Wireless	Bluetooth	Power management	Modem	Other	Remarks
AspireOne D255e	–	Intel GMA 3150	Yes	Yes Atheros 8132 worked only with latest Archboot not official images	Yes Broadcom worked only with latest Archboot not official images	Untested	Untested	Untested	Hot keys: OK Synaptic Touchpad: OK	–
Aspire One Cloudbook 11	archlinux-201608	Intel HD Graphics 400	Yes HDA-Intel	–	Yes Qualcomm Atheros	Yes	Suspend to RAM: Yes Disk: Not tested Battery: Yes CPU frequency scaling: Ok	–	Webcam: Ok Hotkeys: Some Synaptic Touchpad: OK (Set to Basic in BIOS) HDMI: untested	First boot after a UEFI install will typically stop with a "No media found" message. Go into BIOS and navigate to "Select an UEFI file as trusted". Note that a Supervisor password must be set to change these parameters.

Travelmate

Model version	Date	Video	Sound	Ethernet	Wireless	Bluetooth	Power management	Modem	Other	Remarks
Travelmate 6292	Core Dump, Overlord	Intel x3100: HW acceleration with Intel's open-source driver, ~1100 FPS in the glxgears	Intel HDA: OK (model=acer)	Broadcom BCM5787M: OK	Intel iwl4965: OK	Broadcom: OK	Suspend to RAM: ?? Disk: Ok Battery: Yes CPU frequency scaling: Yes	untested	Hot keys: untested FireWire (Texas Instruments) TSB43AB23: OK(?)	FireWire detects well but I have not tested it yet
TravelMate 8371G (TM8371G-944G32n)	2010.05 x86_64	Intel GM45, works with i915. Radeon HD 4330 listed but cannot switch to it.	Yes	Yes works with r8169	Yes works with iwlagn	Yes works with btusb	s2ram works (see remarks), s2disk works, CPU scaling works, no fan control	No modem	Web cam works with uvcvideo. Card reader works. Fingerprint reader does not seem to have a driver!	Suspend to RAM only works with the i8042.reset=1 kernel parameter. Otherwise, it fails to wake up, and ends up rebooting itself uncleanly! Generally, this Acer seems to work quite well with Arch Linux :-)
TravelMate TimelineX 8473T	archlinux-2016.02.01-dual	Intel HD 3000	Yes	Untested	Yes	Untested	Untested	Untested	Hot keys: Display/No Backlight/Disable Trackpad work Sound, sleep, wireless, brightness not working out of box Synaptic Touchpad: OK	Live Media boots in systemd-boot and attempts to load EFI media, even though MOBO supports legacy boot ONLY. Delete the /EFI partition on the boot media to force Grub (this may cause other problems)

Nitro

Model version	Date	Video	Sound	Ethernet	Wireless	Bluetooth	Power management	Modem	Other	Remarks
Nitro VN7-572G	archlinux-2019.02.01-x86_64	Intel HD 520 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M with NVIDIA drivers works with Bumblebee and Nvidia-xrun Nouveau works too, did not test PRIME	Intel HDA PCH only Output (See Notes)	Yes Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411	Yes Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac	Yes	Suspend to RAM: Yes Disk: Yes Battery: Yes CPU frequency scaling: Yes	untested	Hot keys: OK Web cam: OK HDMI: OK Card reader: OK	For UEFI: Enable Secure Boot add Bootloader as trusted bootloader Sound Recording problems might be related to bugs.launchpad.net: Alsa not detecting internal microphone ALC255 Realtek
Nitro VN7-791G-74DL	archlinux-2016.01.01-dual	Intel HD 530 Nvidia GeForce GTX 970M 3GB VRAM	Yes	Realtek: OK	Yes Killer Wireless-AC 1535	Yes	Suspend to RAM: Yes Disk: Yes Battery: Yes CPU frequency scaling: Yes	–	Webcam: Yes Hotkeys: OK Synaptic Touchpad: OK HDMI: Yes Booting from NVME: Yes	Ran into trouble with with fan control, porting driver from windows is required.
Nitro VN7-792G-710p	archlinux-2016.10.01-dual	Intel HD 530 Nvidia GeForce GTX 960M 2GB VRAM	Yes	Realtek: OK	Yes	Yes	Suspend to RAM: Yes Disk: Yes Battery: Yes CPU frequency scaling: untested	Untested	Webcam: untested Hotkeys: OK Synaptic Touchpad: OK HDMI: untested	–
Nitro VN7-792G-751Y	archlinux-2016-12-01-dual	Intel HD 530 Nvidia GeForce GTX 960M 4GB VRAM	Yes	Realtek: OK	Yes	Yes	Suspend to RAM: Yes Disk: Yes Battery: Yes CPU frequency scaling: untested	Untested	Webcam: Yes Hotkeys: OK Synaptic Touchpad: OK HDMI: Does not work Microphone: Does not work	–

Swift

Model version	Date	Video	Sound	Ethernet	Wireless	Bluetooth	Power management	Modem	Other	Remarks
Swift 3 SF315-52-52YN	2020.09.05	Yes Intel UHD 620	Yes Intel HDA options snd-hda-intel model=dell-headset-multi added to /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf to get headset micro input working, and options snd-intel-dspcfg dsp_driver=1 to use DSP sound driver instead of SOF (also to /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf)	–	Yes Intel Wireless-AC 7265	Yes Intel Bluetooth 8087:0a2a	Suspend to RAM: OK Hibernate: OK Battery: OK	–	Webcam: OK Hotkeys: OK HDMI: Yes Booting from NVMe: Yes	–
Swift 5 SF515-51T	2019.06.01	Yes Intel UHD 620	Yes Intel HDA options snd-hda-intel model=dell-headset-multi added to /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf to get headset micro input working	–	Yes	Not tested	Suspend to RAM: OK Hibernate: OK Battery: OK	–	Webcam: OK Hotkeys: OK Synaptic Touchpad: OK, Support Gestures	–
Enduro N3 EN314-51W-55LW	2021.08.28	Yes Intel Comet Lake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics] (rev 02)	Yes Intel Comet Lake PCH-LP cAVS	Yes	Yes Intel Comet Lake PCH-LP CNVi WiFi	Yes	Suspend to RAM: OK Hibernate: OK Battery: OK	–	Webcam: OK Touchpad: OK Hotkeys: OK Booting from NVMe: OK SD Card Reader: Not Tested VGA port: Not Tested HDMI: Not Tested USB-C DisplayPort: Not Tested RS232 Port: Not Tested Smart Card Reader: Not Tested Fingerprint Reader: Not Tested Charging from USB-C: OK	BIOS settings changed: - disabled Secure Boot - set Supervisor password - set NVMe mode to ACHI (is not changable until Supervisor password set)