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Inspiron

Model version Date Video Sound Ethernet Wireless Bluetooth Power management Modem Other Remarks
Inspiron 1420 2012.09 3D with xf86-video-nouveau Intel HD Audio with ALSA Yes Yes, broadcom-wl is needed Untested Untested Untested Untested Everything that I have tested works great without any problems
Inspiron 1501 Duke 3D with proprietary ATI fglrx Intel HD audio with ALSA Yes Yes, BCM4311 PCI-E with bcm43xx N/A Untested Untested Smart card reader works out-of-the-box Everything else works without a hitch
Inspiron 1520 Core Dump 3D with NVIDIA SigmaTel audio with ALSA b44 module, out of the box b43, need firmware Yes Untested Hot keys work out-of-the-box Everything else works without a hitch
Inspiron 1525 Arch Linux 2008.06 - "Overlord" FTP Install 3D with xf86-video-intel 2.4.3, native resolution with xorg-server 1.5.3 (1280x800) Intel HD Audio (SigmaTel STAC9228 codec) with ALSA Marvell Yukon Gb Ethernet: Yes (sky2 module) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG with iwlwifi-3945-ucode 15.28.2.8 Untested (does not have) Untested Untested SD card reader works out-of-the-box Fn+Up/Down (LCD brightness control) works independently of the OS. Everything else work out-of-the-box.
Inspiron 1525 Core Dump (2008.03 ISO) 3D with xf86-video-intel 2.2, native resolution with xorg-server 1.4 (1280x800) Intel HD Audio (SigmaTel STAC9228 codec) with ALSA Marvell Yukon Gb Ethernet: Yes (sky2 module) Broadcom BCM4310: Yes, ndiswrapper (broadcom-wl works, but must blacklist ssb module) Untested (does not have) Untested Untested SD card reader (Ricoh) works out-of-the-box Fn+Up/Down (LCD brightness control) works independently of the OS. DVD-RW drive and everything else work out-of-the-box.
Inspiron 1764 2011.08.19 3D with xf86-video-intel Works well with ALSA Realtek RTL8101E 10/100 Ethernet Controller Broadcom BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n works well with brcmsmac Untested Untested Does not have a modem SD card reader and LCD brightness Fn keys work out-of-the-box Fan control/monitoring is completely broken with i8kutilsAUR
Inspiron 14 3000 Series (Model 3420) 2016.09.03 Intel® HD Graphics 4000. Works out of the box with xf86-video-intel. Works well with alsa-utils. Yes, works out of the box Yes, with broadcom-wl Untested Suspend-to-RAM perfect. Hibernate untested. Disk spindown untested. No Synaptics touchpad work flawlessly. Wifi on/off and brightness Fn keys work flawlessly. Webcam and integrated microphone work. Volume up / down and player control buttons need configuring through key bindings to work.
Inspiron 15 3000 Series (Model 3541) 2016.01.01
Inspiron 15 5000 Series (Model 5547) 2016.01.25 Hybrid graphics/AMD Radeon R7 M260/M265, Please read Hybrid graphics#Dynamic Switching Model. This has not be tested yet. Works with Intel HD Audio and PulseAudio, but need to configure microphone Yes Yes, works out of the box Yes, works out of the box Suspend-to-RAM untested. Hibernate untested. Disk spindown untested. No modem HDMI work, need configuration to swith between monitor. The touchpad work properly, but just test the basics Webcam works, SD card reader untested
Inspiron 15 5000 Series (Model 5566) 2020.09.24 Intel® HD Graphics 620. Works out of the box with xf86-video-intel. Intel HD Audio with ALSA. Not tested. Yes, with networkmanager and dhcpcd or networkmanager-iwdAUR Yes, works with bluez-utils. Suspend-to-RAM untested. Hibernate untested. Disk spindown untested. But good battery performance using TLP. No modem The touchpad work properly, but just test the basics. HDMI untested. Webcam works, SD card reader untested.
Inspiron 15 5000 Series (Model 5559) 2021.07.19 Intel® HD Graphics 520. Intel HD Audio with ALSA Yes, out of the box. Intel Corp. Wireless 3160 with iwlwifi and nmcli Untested. Untested. Untested.
Inspiron 15 7000 Series (Model 7537) 2016.06.01 Intel® HD Graphics 4400. Works out of the box with xf86-video-intel. Intel HD Audio. Works out of the box. Yes RJ45 Ethernet Intel 7260N or 7260AC, Works out of the box with iwlwifi. Yes, works out of the box. Suspend-to-RAM perfect. Hibernate perfect. Disk spindown untested. No modem HDMI perfect. The touchpad works with minimal configuration. Volume up / down button needs some modifying to work all other buttons work with drivers that come with the kernel. ACPI battery is not detected on bootup and requires you to plug in and out the AC adapter.
Inspiron 15 7000 Series (Model 7570) 2021.10.27 Intel® UHD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2). Works out of the box with both modesetting and xf86-video-intel. Intel HD Audio. Works out of the box. Yes RJ45 Ethernet Intel 9260N or 9260AC, Works out of the box with iwlwifi. Yes, works out of the box. Suspend-to-RAM perfect. Hibernate perfect. No modem HDMI perfect. Touchpad perfect (gestures not tested). Webcam perfect (uvcvideo). USB-C DisplayPort alt-mode works reasonably well. USB-C DisplayPort alt-mode tested with a Dell P2721Q monitor. 65W of power, USB hub and Video delivered over USB-C work well. Rare issues with the monitor sometimes losing the video connection when switching users or logging out (on resolution changes). The power and USB keep working though.
Inspiron 15 7000 Series (Model 7548) 2015.05 AMD Radeon® R7 M270 Untested N/A Yes, works out of the box Yes, works out of the box Suspend-to-RAM perfect. Hibernate untested. Disk spindown untested. No modem HDMI is currently untested. The touchpad (clickpad) needs some tweaking to work properly. If the kernel panics during bootup replace the 'keyboard'-hook with the specifc module. Webcam works, SD card reader untested
Inspiron 15 7000 Series (Model 7559) 2016.08 Hybrid graphics NVIDIA GM107M(GeForce GTX960M)(nvidia) + Intel HD Graphics 530 (xf86-video-intel) via Bumblebee (see this issue) Intel HD Audio. Works out of the box. Yes (you may need the r8168 module). Yes, works out of the box Yes Suspend-to-RAM and hibernate works. No modem HDMI tested only for presentation with projector via HDMI-VGA cable - works out of the box. Webcam works, SD card reader works, ACPI battery detection works
Inspiron 15 7000 Series (Model 7566) 2016.12 Hybrid graphics NVIDIA GM107M(GeForce GTX960M)(nvidia) + Intel HD Graphics 530 (xf86-video-intel) via Bumblebee Intel HD Audio. Works out of the box. Yes. Yes, works out of the box Yes Suspend-to-RAM works. Otherwise untested. No modem HDMI has issues connecting monitor after turning laptop on. If monitor is connected before, there is no problem.(might be caused by bad config) Webcam works, SD card reader works, ACPI battery detection works
Inspiron 15 7000 Series (Model 7590) 2020.02 Hybrid graphics NVIDIA GTX1650 (nvidia) + Intel HD Graphics 620 (xf86-video-intel) via Bumblebee Intel HD Audio. May require `snd_hda_intel.dmic_detect=0` kernel option to work. Cannot get microphone working. N/A, did not check thunderbolt yet. Yes, works out of the box Untested Suspend-to-RAM works. About 10 hours of youtube watching if NVIDIA card is not powered No modem HDMI works out of the box. Did not check thunderbolt, but according to the link it works Webcam works, ACPI battery detection works
Inspiron 13 7000 Series (7370) 2017.12 Intel® UHD-Graphics 620. Works out of the box with xf86-video-intel. Intel HD Audio. Works out of the box. N/A Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 7265, works out of the box Yes Suspend-to-RAM works. Does not wake up after closing the screen lid. N/A HDMI works, SD card reader works, USB-C works with support for DisplayPort and charging, keyboard backlight brightness control works Integrated fingerprint reader is unsupported. Fn keys work except Wireless toggle
Inspiron M5030 Any ATI works fine, catalyst untested Yes, works out of the box Yes Yes, works out of the box N/A Untested N/A Everything works alright, and out of the box. i8kutilsAUR required for fan control
Inspiron Duo 1090 (hybrid touchscreen netbook/tablet) 2014.10.01 Intel Atom Integrated VGA graphics controller. Software 3D, works out-of-the-box (1366x768). Intel HD Audio with ALSA No. Yes, Qualcomm Atheros (ath9k) Untested Suspend-to-RAM works flawlessly. Hibernate untested. No. eGalax touchscreen and Synaptics touchpad work flawlessly. All function keys (Power manager, Wifi on/off, touchpad on/off, brightness and audio up/down work flawlessly. Webcam and integrated microphone work. Audio out works, no standard audio-in or video out ports. USB audio-in and USB video-out untested.
Inspiron 15 5000 Series (model 5567) - Intel i5, no AMD 2020.04.01 Intel HD Graphics, 3D with mesa, modesetting driver. export MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=i965 if you do not want to use a compositor. Intel HD audio Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Everything else works Make sure to not have xf86-video-intel as it runs worse, the correct vaapi driver is intel-media-driver. Very Linux friendly overall.
Inspiron 15 5000 Series (model 5575) 2019.12.01 AMD Vega 8 Gfx graphics. AMD. Yes. Untested. Yes, Qualcomm Atheros (ath10k) Yes. Works out of the box Suspend to ram and hibernation works flawlessly. No. Synaptics touchpad work flawlessly. HDMI untested. Webcam works,SD card reader untested, fn keys work. Overall, linux-friendly and everything I tested works out of the box.
Inspiron 15 7000 Series (model 7586) 2019.07.01 Intel UHD Graphics 620 (Whiskey Lake) and NVIDIA GeForce MX150 (1D10) Intel HD Works out of box N/A Yes, Intel 9560 (iwlwifi) Yes Suspend-to-RAM perfect. Hibernate untested. Disk spindown untested. N/A Touchpad works fine, fingerprint works with a proprietary driver. Touchscreen, autorotation of screen, work out of box. Active pen works out of box in Gnome but axis are flipped in i3wm, a script would solve this. SD card reader works, webcam untested. So far a great experience running Arch with this system.
Inspiron 13 5000 Series (model 5391) 2020.09 Intel UHD Graphics Intel No Intel Corporation Wireless-AC 9462 Unknown No No No No
Inspiron 13 7000 Series (model 7348) 2021 Intel UHD Graphics, works out of the box (mesa and vulkan-intel) Intel, works out of the box with alsa-utils N/A Intel Corporation Wireless-AC 7265 works out of the box, succesfully upgraded to Intel AX 200 (both with iwlwifi module) Intel, works out of the box both with AC 7265 and AX 200 Suspend to RAM works fine. N/A Touchscreen, Microphone, Webcam work all fine out of the box. No

Latitude

Model version Date Video Sound Ethernet Wireless Bluetooth Power management Modem Other Remarks
Latitude D620 Duke 3D with NVIDIA, native resolution with xorg-server 1.2 (1440x900)
3D with Intel 945GM, native resolution 1440x900
Intel HD Audio with ALSA Yes Yes, bcm4311 PCI-E with bcm43xx. Yes for some models with iwl3945. N/A Suspend-to-RAM perfect, hibernate works fine. Untested not tested smart card reader Everything else works without a hitch
Latitude D820 Duke 3D with NVIDIA drivers Intel HD Audio with ALSA Yes Yes, IPW3945 Yes Suspending with KDE works Untested Everything works, even fingerprint reader with bioapi and pam_bioapi Everything else works without a hitch
Latitude D830 Don't Panic (2007.08-2) NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M with proprietary NVIDIA drivers ALSA with the snd_hda_intel module Yes, with tg3 module Yes, with iwl3965 module Yes Yes Untested
Latitude E5400 2021-11-11 Intel® GM45 Express Chipset Works without any problem Works Yes, using broadcom-wl Not tested Suspend and hibernate works Not tested SD Card reader works. Replaced the Broadcom wireless with Intel Wireless 7260 and now, wireless and bluetooth both work without special firmware, as long as linux-firmware is installed, but bluetooth LED does not glow even when bluetooth is installed and working, TPM (not TPM 2) is detected and usable. Works very well in general even for an old laptop
Latitude E5500 2016.03.01 Intel® HD Graphics 4000, use xf86-video-intel Works well with alsa-utils Untested Yes, b43 Untested Yes Untested The luminosity sensor works out of the box Everything seems to work without problems
Latitude E5430 2016.02.01 Intel® HD Graphics 4000, use xf86-video-intel Intel HD Audio. Works out of the box. Yes, Ethernet port, tg3 Yes, with broadcom-wl or b43 Yes, with bluez Suspend-to-RAM perfect, hibernate works fine. No modem webcam, card reader and fingerprint reader works fine Everything seems to work without problems
Latitude E5540 2016.02.01 Haswell-ULT Integrated + GeForce GT 720M using nvidia Haswell-ULT HD Audio Yes, e1000e Yes, Atheros AR9485 Untested Untested No modem Dock works fine (DisplayPort expander, ethernet, USB Everything seems to work without problems
Latitude E5570 2017.02.01 Skylake Integrated + AMD Radeon HD 8750M Skylake Integrated. Works well with alsa-utils Yes, Intel I219-LM (rev 31) Yes, Intel 8260 (rev 3a) Untested Untested No modem All Dock Ports function BIOS Firmware bug may report incorrect RAM size. Booting UEFI does not have the issue.
Dell Latitude E5580 2018.07.01 Kaby Lake + GeForce 940MX (blacklist nouveau, run bumblebee/NVIDIA drivers) Yes, Intel CM238 Yes, (Intel I219-LM) Yes, Intel 8265 / 8275 Working Working, Some complaints No modem All Dock Ports function (TB16 and WD15 both tested working) UEFI working with NVMe drive via AHCPI, Backlit keys, Function keys
Latitude E5401 2019.10 Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 630, use xf86-video-intel,3D NVIDIA GP108M [GeForce MX150] - disabled Intel HD Audio (ALC3204). Works. Yes, Ethernet port, Intel I219-LM Yes, Intel AC 9560 with iwlwifi } Yes, with bluez Suspend-to-RAM works, hibernate untested. No modem webcam untested, card reader works. Thunderbolt 3 ( JHL6340) - untested Poor thermal design (i7 i7-9850H CPU @ 2.60GHz)
Latitude E6230 2018.12 Intel HD4000 xf86-video-intel Intel HD Audio with ALSA Yes Yes, Intel Centrino A-N 6205 with iwlwifi No Bluetooth Suspend-to-RAM perfect, hibernate untested No modem SD card reader works, smart card reader works, RFID reader works after enabling RFID radio, see this blog post, Touchpad (alps a10) shaky Everything else works without a hitch
Latitude E6410 2018.06.01 Nvidia Quatro NVS3100m W/ NVIDIA 340xx Drivers Intel HD Audio with ALSA - PulseAudio Untested Yes Yes, Works after installation Not Functioning - Working on it Lid-Closed suspension not functioning right N/A Fingerprint Sensor not functioning, no drivers seem to exist Everything but 1. Bluetooth 2. Fingerprint Sensor 3. Suspension on closing the lid works, and I am working actively on finding fixes
Latitude E6410 (BIOS A16) 2018.08.01 Intel HD, use xf86-video-intel Intel HD Audio, ALSA + PulseAudio Yes Yes (Centrino Advanced-N 6200) Untested Untested N/A For advanced touchpad functionality install xf86-input-synaptics and create /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/70-synaptics.conf (see Touchpad Synaptics) EFISTUB bootmanager does not work for me, GRUB works. Latest BIOS A16 does not contain latest ucode, install intel-ucode. SD card reader works but is unreliable. Webcam works.
Latitude E6420 2011.08.19 Intel HD3000 xf86-video-intel Intel HD Audio with ALSA Yes, e1000e Yes, bcma-pci-bridge Untested Suspend-to-RAM perfect, hibernate perfect No modem SD card reader works out-of-the-box, smart card reader works with ccid, opensc, pcsc-tools. Ethernet was not working in fresh installation, had to clone repositories to HDD and update
Latitude E6430 2018.12 Intel HD4000 xf86-video-intel Intel HD Audio with ALSA Yes, e1000e Yes, Intel Centrino A-N 6205 with iwlwifi Untested Suspend-to-RAM perfect, hibernate untested untested SD card reader untested, smart card reader untested, Touchpad (alps a10) shaky Everything else works without a hitch
Latitude E6530 2014.10.01 NVIDIA NVS5200 3D works flawlessly with either nvidia or xf86-video-nouveau (1600x900). Intel HD Audio with ALSA Yes Intel Centrino A-N (with iwlwifi) Flawless. File transfer and Audio streaming works Suspend-to-RAM perfect. Hibernate perfect. Disk spindown perfect. Untested SD card reader, ALPS touchpad with gestures, and Webcam work flawlessly. Integrated and external microphone ports work flawlessly. Backlit keyboard, monitor backlight, audio up/down/mute controls all work flawlessly. HDMI video works but must disable Optimus in bios. HDMI audio out works. If Optimus enabled, Intel HD4000 will be used and optirun works. Prevents use of HDMI (VGA only) but otherwise works.
Latitude E7270 2017.01.01 xf86-video-intel Intel HD Audio with ALSA and Pulseaudio yes yes (IWL 8260) untested suspend-to-RAM after UEFI Update, hibernate works Yes, working without runtime pm High suspend usage with power share port active
Latitude 7370
Latitude 7390 ( 2-in-1 ) 2019.02.01 Intel UHD Graphics 620 ( works with and without xf86-video-intel ) Intel HD Audio with ALSA and Pulseaudio yes yes yes yes untested Touchscreen display works
Latitude E7440 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes, some complaints
Latitude E7450 2016.03.01 Intel HD5500 xf86-video-intel Intel HD Audio with ALSA Yes Intel Wireless 7265 BT 4.0 LE, untested Suspend-to-RAM perfect, Hibernate does not work. SSD drive (no spindown) No. SD card reader. Synaptics touchpad + stick. Webcam works without problems. Backlit keyboard. Integrated mic works. FN-keys works once you set them up (lock, volume, monitor, search, sleep, backlight). RFID reader. Fingerprint reader. Get about 9h batterylife. Intel i7 CPU, 16GB RAM. Everything else works without a hitch
Latitude E7470 2017.01.01 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Suspend-to-RAM perfect, hibernate untested N/A EFISTUB bootmanager does not work because it seems impossible to pass kernel parameters. Not via efibootmgr, nor UEFI shell bcfg, nor the built-in gui. All ports of the docking station (PR03X) work.
Latitude 3500 2020.10.28 Intel UHD Graphics 620 (Whiskey Lake) Intel HD Audio with Pulseaudio Yes Yes Yes, with bluez Suspend-to-RAM perfect, hibernate perfect N/A Fingerprint reader works with proprietary driver. See linked article for more details
Latitude 5580 ± 2017.11.06 Intel Graphics work, NVIDIA (fails on first attempt, did not try harder) Intel HD Audio with ALSA and Pulseaudio Yes, ethernet port I219-LM (rev 31) Yes, Intel 8265 / 8275 (rev 78) Yes, audio streaming and file transfer Works (needs BIOS update (fwupd) to not have black screen when resuming sometimes) Webcam works; Backlight changeable; BIOS, TPM and SanDisk SSD firmware updatable with fwupd; UEFI works NVIDIA drivers work in Ubuntu, so it should be possible to get it working; I cannot remember the exact CD version I used.
Latitude 7420 2020/10 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes CPU throttle to 400mhz after short power-intensive workloads. With Thermald CPU can reach 1800mhz(15w). This bug not fixed yet. Please see this thread to more info: https://github.com/intel/thermal_daemon/issues/293
Latitude 7480 Yes Yes Yes webcam Fingerprint reader not working
Latitude 7490 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Latitude 5511 2020.10 Yes Yes Yes Freezing. Probably issues with KINGSTON SA2000M81000G NVME HDD. Under investigation. See <https://tekbyte.net/2020/fixing-nvme-ssd-problems-on-linux/>. WD19 Docking station OK

Precision

Model version Date Video Sound Ethernet Wireless Bluetooth Power management Modem Other Remarks
Precision M4800 2014.04.01 System not usable if booted without kernel parameter nomodeset. Nvidia Quadro K2100M works with nvidia, but Nouveau does not work because it requires KMS. Untested Yes Yes Untested Untested No modem N/A nomodeset is required to boot to a usable system, both with the Arch installation media and post-installation.
Precision M6700 2017.01.01 [Nvidia] Quadro K3000M works with both Nouveau and nvidia. Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 HD Audio with Pulse Audio works; HDMI audio device untested yes Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 output works not tested Suspend and Hibernate works. N/A Touchpad, trackpoint, special function keys work KDE Plasma works perfectly; Occasional GPU freezes with "GPU has fallen off the bus" errors since January 2018 ( kernel 4.14.15-1 and NVIDIA Kernel Module 387.34)
Precision 7710 2017.11.01 [AMD/ATI] Venus XTX [Radeon HD 8890M / R9 M275X/M375X] (rev 83) works without problems. Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H HD Audio (rev 31) with Pulse Audio works yes Intel Corporation Wireless 8260 (rev 3a) output works; microphone not detected by pulse audio; HDMI audio device untested not tested Suspend works if no BIOS hard drive password. Hibernate untested. N/A Solid experience using XFCE; all defaults. Lots of errors when booting up about the video card, etc., but no noticeable problems. xcalib -a -i; is very slow -- not sure why.
Precision 5510 2020.04.01 [Nvidia] Quadro M1000 Mobile and Intel HD 530 with [NVIDIA Optimus]. Quadro M1000 Mobile works well with optimus-manager Works out of the box; Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family HD Audio Controller (rev 31) yes Intel Corporation Wireless 8260 (rev 3a) Works out of the box Suspend works N/A SD Card reader, webcam, mic and function keys work out of the box. Essentially the same device as the Dell XPS 15 9550
Precision 3530 2020.07.01 [Nvidia] Quadro P600 Mobile and Intel UHD 630 with [NVIDIA Optimus]. Quadro P600 Mobile works well with nvidia-prime Works out of the box; Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH cAVS (rev 10) yes Intel Corporation Wireless-AC 9560 (rev 10) Works out of the box Suspend works. You need to disable early microcode loading No modem SD Card reader, webcam, mic and function keys work out of the box. Upgrade the Thunderbolt controller to latest available firmware from Windows and, if needed, disable Thunderbolt security within the BIOS (especially with TB16 docking station).
Precision 5520 2018.02.01 [Nvidia] Quadro M1200 Mobile disabled for Energy consumption reasons. Quadro M1200 Mobile works well with nvidia and bumblebee with tlp. bbswitch does work. Intel HD P630 works with xf86-video-intel Works out of the box yes Qualcomm QCA61x4A works flawless Works out of the box Suspend work N/A SD Card reader, webcam, mic and function keys work out of the box. Everything works out of the box for Dell Precision developer edition
Precision 5530 2018.06.01 [Nvidia] Quadro P2000 Mobile disabled for Energy consumption reasons. Quadro P1000 works well with nvidia and bumblebee with tlp. bbswitch does not work. Intel HD630 works with xf86-video-intel. Works out of the box yes Intel Corporation Wireless-AC 9260 works flawless with Linux 4.18 Works with occasional driver reloads modprobe btusb Suspend works. Need to change sleep state as per Dell XPS 15 9570. N/A SD Card reader, webcam, mic and function keys work out of the box. Besides occasional bluetooth issues a great experience so far.

Studio

Model version Date Video Sound Ethernet Wireless Bluetooth Power management Modem Other Remarks
Studio 1749 2013.01.04 Radeon HD 5650M, xf86-video-ati is almost flawless (just slower 3D), catalyst is faster but has various issues. HDA Intel MID, works with ALSA after adding options snd-hda-intel index=0 model=dell-m6-dmic to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf. HDMI audio has some issues. Yes BCM43224, brcmsmac and broadcom-wl both work N/A Suspend works; hibernate untested. N/A SD card reader works, media keys work, web cam, and microphone both work. Flawless except for poor 3D performance and battery life.
Studio XPS M1640 (2009.08) ATI HD4670 Mobile works with xf86-video-ati (see the forums for 3D support); Catalyst drivers untested Works with Intel HD Audio and ALSA. Yes Works with iwlagn Bluetooth works Works but when using xf86-video-ati, there is video corruption upon boot N/A Web cam works, media keys work with the dell_laptop kernel module, IR works, card reader works Everything basically worked out-of-the-box

Vostro

Model version Date Video Sound Ethernet Wireless Bluetooth Power management Modem Other Remarks
Vostro 1710 Yes, RTL8111/8168B Works (Broadcom BCM4328) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint
Vostro 5481 2019.11.01 Works out of the box, xf86-video-intel recommended just in case. Yes Yes Yes. broadcom-wl may be needed. Yes Yes Disable secure boot, fast boot, and TPM in the BIOS. Also, enable AHCI SATA Operation in the BIOS instead of RAID or the disk may not be detected. Do note that you will get a BSOD on Windows after this, which can be fixed by following this quick guide.
Vostro 3583 No need to install xf86-video-intel and xf86-video-amdgpu as modesetting drivers works perfectly. Yes Yes Works Yes Yes Webcame works out of box after resuming from sleep, wifi stops working for some unknown cause. work around is to reload kernel module ath10k_pci. AMD 520 Radeon performs less than Intel UHD 620 with both amdgpu and radeon module. same results under Windows
Vostro 3560 2020.02.01 Works, use Radeon, installed mesa and mesa-vdpau for hardware acceleration. Works Works Works (Atheros AR9485 - ath9k) Works Works Fingerprint reader works. Everything works.
Vostro 5590 Works out of the box. Followed Bumblebee#Installation. Works with sof-firmware. Yes Yes Yes
  • Installing the package sof-firmware solves all the audio problems.
  • Install package aur/pulseaudio-modules-bt, if device bluetooth-sound not working
  • execute: pactl load-module module-bluetooth-discover
Vostro 7500 2020.10.16 Works out of box using nouveau Works with sof-firmware N/A Works Finger print scanner not yet supported. Webcam works out of box.
  • No audio out of box, but sof-firmware fixes this issue.
  • SSD was initially in RAID configuration in the Bios + not detected by the installer. Fixed by changing to AHCI.
  • Dell UEFI implementation does not pass kernel parameters on boot, so EFIStub does not work. Side-stepped the issue by installing Grub.

XPS

Model version Date Video Sound Ethernet Wireless Bluetooth Power management Modem Other Remarks
XPS L322 2013_03 Intel HD 4000, with xf86-video-intel Intel HD Audio with ALSA No Ethernet port Yes Untested Yes No modem No SD card slot ALPS Touchpad recognized only as PS/2 mouse, two-finger scroll, finger tap-to-click, etc... does not work. Some new mouse drivers suggest a fix but have not worked.
XPS M1330 2021-01) works with Nouveau or mode-setting Works with Intel HD Audio and ALSA or Pulseaudio, but need to configure microphone Yes Works with iwl4965, b43 driver Works with bluez (acpi_cpufreq problem: see forums) No modem 2.0 MP web cam works with uvcvideo, IR remote works, SD card works Everything basically worked out-of-the-box except the microphone.
XPS 13 (9333)
XPS 13 (9310)
XPS 13 (9343)
XPS 13 (9350) Yes Yes Yes Yes, after firmware update Yes (Suspend and Hibernate) All Dock Ports function (WD15 tested working, except Ethernet Realtek 8152/8153 not resuming from USB supend mode. Install WD15 firmware 1.0.4 to fix.) Everything basically works out-of-the-box with a reasonably up-to-date kernel.
XPS 13 (9360) Yes Yes Yes Yes, after firmware update Yes (Suspend and Hibernate) Everything basically works out-of-the-box with a reasonably up-to-date kernel.
XPS 13 (9370) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
XPS 13 (9380) 2019 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Everything basically works out-of-the-box with a reasonably up-to-date kernel.
XPS 13 2-in-1 (9365) Yes Yes No Ethernet Port Yes Yes (Suspend and Hibernate) Everything basically works out-of-the-box with a reasonably up-to-date kernel.
XPS 13 (7390) Yes Yes No Ethernet Port Yes Yes Fingerprint not tested as the developer version does not have one. This is the regular XPS 13, not the 2-in-1. Only tested with Wayland (Sway WM) ecosystem.
XPS 13 2-in-1 (7390) 2019.09.01 Yes Yes No Ethernet Port Yes Yes (Requires Drivers) No Modem Camera, Fingerprint Sensor not working System freezes on boot. See device page for fix.
Dell XPS 15 Intel HD 530 works with xf86-video-intel i915 and GTX 960M works with nvidia Yes No Ethernet Port Yes Yes Yes No Modem Everything basically works out-of-the-box with a reasonably up-to-date kernel.
Dell XPS 17 (9700) Intel UHD (CML GT2) works with mesa or xf86-video-intel and GTX 1650 Ti/RTX 2060 Max-Q works with nvidia Yes No Ethernet Port Yes Yes Yes No Modem Camera working, Fingerprint sensor workable. Builtin audio can work, but is currently difficult to get working.

G3

Model version Date Video Sound Ethernet Wireless Bluetooth Power management Modem Other Remarks
G3 15 3590 2020.19.10 Intel UHD 630 and NVIDIA GTX 1050/1660 Mobile nvidia and nvidia-prime using PRIME Render Offloading. Until now, NVIDIA CUDA is not working with linux 5.9 You must install sof-firmware and any kernel after 5.6.3+ to get internal microphone/sound working. Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter Working Working Works well with optimus-manager-gitAUR, follow their page on power managment

G5

Model version Date Video Sound Ethernet Wireless Bluetooth Power management Modem Other Remarks
G5 5590-9340 2020.08.20 Yes (both integrated and dedicated) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Goodix fingerprint reader not working due to lack of drivers but probably can be extracted from Ubuntu image this laptop goes with. Everything works OOB except FP.