Acer Aspire V3-371 - ArchWiki

# Acer Aspire V3-371

From ArchWiki

Device | Status | Modules
Intel | Working, see notes | i915
Ethernet | Working | r8169
Wireless | Working | iwlwifi
Audio | Working | snd_hda_intel
Touchpad | Working | xf86-input-synaptics
Camera | Working | uvcvideo
Card Reader | Working | rtsx_usb
Bluetooth | Working |

Information for the Acer Aspire V3-371 53L5 (Core i5-5200U, 4GiB RAM, 240GB SSD). Almost everything works right out of the box.

# Hardware

## Partitions

    # lsblk

    NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
    sda      8:0    0 223.6G  0 disk
    ├─sda1   8:1    0   512M  0 part /boot
    ├─sda2   8:2    0    30G  0 part /
    ├─sda3   8:3    0     4G  0 part [SWAP]
    └─sda4   8:4    0 189.1G  0 part /home

## Devices

    # lspci

    00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Host Bridge -OPI (rev 09)
    00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics (rev 09)
    00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Audio Controller (rev 09)
    00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP USB xHCI Controller (rev 03)
    00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP MEI Controller #1 (rev 03)
    00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03)
    00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #3 (rev e3)
    00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #4 (rev e3)
    00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP USB EHCI Controller (rev 03)
    00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP LPC Controller (rev 03)
    00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP SATA Controller [AHCI Mode] (rev 03)
    00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP SMBus Controller (rev 03)
    00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP Thermal Management Controller (rev 03)
    01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 0c)
    02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 7265 (rev 48)

# Configuration

## Disabling UEFI Secure Boot

To disable Secure Boot, set the supervisor password in the BIOS settings. Then you should be able to boot Arch.

## Video

Install the xf86-video-intel package as shown here

## Solid State Drive

Enable TRIM by mount flag[broken link: invalid section]

Apply trim via periodic fstrim with systemd[broken link: invalid section]

Switch from default CFQ scheduler to NOOP, for the whole system[broken link: invalid section]

Reduce Swappiness to 1

## Touchpad

Configure the touchpad as a ClickPad by editing the touchpad section in `/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf` as shown here

## Troubleshooting

### Video

I experienced a loss of h-sync when swiching TTYs[broken link: invalid section] and solved it as suggested by the wiki, by adding `i915.enable_ips=0` as a kernel parameter

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