Dell Inspiron 5547

This is an install and configuration guide for the Dell Inspiron 15 000 Series (Model 5547) laptop, testing with the manjaro 4.1.15-2-MANJARO kernel.

See the Laptop/Dell chart for information on other Dell laptops.

Hardware Details

lspci output:

 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT DRAM Controller (rev 0b)
 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0b)
 00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT HD Audio Controller (rev 0b)
 00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series USB xHCI HC (rev 04)
 00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series HECI #0 (rev 04)
 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 8 Series HD Audio Controller (rev 04)
 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev e4)
 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev e4)
 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev e4)
 00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series USB EHCI #1 (rev 04)
 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series LPC Controller (rev 04)
 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series SATA Controller 1 [AHCI mode] (rev 04)
 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 8 Series SMBus Controller (rev 04)
 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 07)
 02:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
 03:00.0 Display controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Topaz XT [Radeon R7 M260/M265]

lsusb output:

 Bus 001 Device 006: ID 064e:c231 Suyin Corp. 
 Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0bda:0129 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTS5129 Card Reader Controller
 Bus 001 Device 004: ID 04f3:2013 Elan Microelectronics Corp. 
 Bus 001 Device 007: ID 0cf3:e005 Atheros Communications, Inc. 
 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:8000 Intel Corp. 
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
 Bus 003 Device 002: ID 1058:0748 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. My Passport (WDBKXH, WDBY8L)
 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub


Installation

Tested with dual boots Windows 10/Manjaro 15-2. Step: Installation from a USB key. Create one following this page. Installed with UEFI mode enabled (Boot installation).

Hardware

Audio

Sound should work out of the box with Intel HD Audio and PulseAudio.

Microphone

Need to configure PulseAudio If the built-in microphone is static, setting the sample rate in PulseAudio may solve the problem.

Video

The notebook comes two GPUs, one power-efficent (Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics) and one more powerful and more power-hungry (AMD Radeon R7 M265). Please read this ATI Dynamic Switchable Graphics. This has not be testing yet.

You can found a topic in the Archlinux forum about the problem here

Keyboard

Keyboard worked out of the box.

Touchpad

Touchpad worked out of the box. To enable scroll and more, install xf86-input-synaptics. With the default configuration file it will work well, but if you want to fine tune the behaviour, read Touchpad Synaptics.

Wireless

Wireless worked out of the box.

USB, SD card slot, ethernet, HDMI, webcam and mediakeys

USB: work out of the box. SD card slotnor: not tested Ethernet: work out of the box. HDMI: work out of the box, need configuration to auto-switch between video/sound laptop/hdmi(TV,...). Mediakeys: almost all work. Wifi off/on not working, switch between monitor not working

Power Management

Not tested.