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## Specs

- i5 4210U
- Nvidia 840M
- SATA III storage @5400RPM. Easy to swap with an SSD.
- 8GB DDR3 RAM (The first 4GB are soldered onto the motheboard).
- 15" 720p LED.
- Broadcom BCM43142 WLAN + Bluetooth module.

## Things that needed some tinkering to make work and are functional as of May, 2016.

- WLAN requires b43-firmwareAUR to be installed and modprobed, as well as any other WLAN drivers to be blacklisted.
- [FN] F5 and F6 keys for internal display brightness. Edit /etc/default/grub so that the line

    GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet"

becomes

    GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet acpi_osi= "

Yes, there is a blank space in "acpi_osi= ". Next, rebuild your grub:

    # grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

and reboot.

## Things pending to fix

- FN + F8, swaps display output.
- FN + F10/F11/F12, volume controls.
- FN + arow keys, multimedia controls.
- Bluetooth support. I have no use for it lately, so it is not a priority.

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