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.
Contents
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
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