Dell Vostro 5470

Dell Vostro 5470

This page deals with setting up Arch Linux on the Dell Vostro 5470 laptop.

I installed arch using Antergos.

CPU

This laptop has several CPU configurations and that will depend on the purchase. The one we are documenting has a Core i7-4500U CPU.

# uname -p


This CPU is capable of frequency scaling.

Touchscreen

Worked out of the box.

GPU

Card: NVIDIA Corporation GK208M [GeForce GT 740M]

Bumblebee and NVIDIA proprietary driver

Install intel video driver

Install Bumblebee

Add yourself to bumblebee group

# systemctl enable bumblebeed

Install NVIDIA proprietary driver

bbswitch

primus

Networking

Ethernet

Install r8168 kernel module.

Then blacklist the r8169:

/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
blacklist r8169

Restart or unload r8169:

# modprobe -r r8169

Wireless

Worked out of the box