Dell Inspiron 13 (5378)

This is an install and configuration guide for the Dell Inspiron 13 5378 laptop (2 in 1 Touch), testing with the 2017.08.01 version.

Device	Status	Modules
Video	Working	i915
Wireless	Working	iwlmvm
Bluetooth	Working	btusb
Audio	Working	snd_hda_intel
Touchpad	Working	i2c_hid
Touchscreen	Working	usbhid
Webcam	Working	uvcvideo
Wireless switch	Working	intel_hid
Keyboard backlight switch	Working	?
Harddisk/Battery light switch	Working	?
Function/Multimedia Keys	Working	?

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

Hardware Details

lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 620 (rev 02)
00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor Thermal Subsystem (rev 02)
00:13.0 Non-VGA unclassified device: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Integrated Sensor Hub (rev 21)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP USB 3.0 xHCI Controller (rev 21)
00:14.2 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Thermal subsystem (rev 21)
00:15.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #0 (rev 21)
00:15.1 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #1 (rev 21)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP CSME HECI #1 (rev 21)
00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 21)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #5 (rev f1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP LPC Controller (rev 21)
00:1f.2 Memory controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PMC (rev 21)
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio (rev 21)
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP SMBus (rev 21)
01:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 3165 (rev 79)

lsusb:

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 04f3:2494 Elan Microelectronics Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 8087:0a2a Intel Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:58c6 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

Installation

See Installation guide.

Hardware

Audio

There are two options to get audio working: ALSA and PulseAudio. With ALSA the sound works well, both headphone jacks work and volume can be set independently. With Pulse Audio you will generally get better quality and louder sound.

Video

The notebook comes with the Intel HD Graphics 620 GPU, which uses the xf86-video-intel driver. See: Intel for details.

Keyboard

Keyboard worked out of the box.

Touchpad

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

See: Libinput.

Touchscreen

Touchscreen worked out of the box. More can be done after installing xf86-input-evdev. Works well with the default configuration file.

Wireless

This laptop comes Intel Corporation Wireless 3165 wireless card, which worked out of the box.

See: Wireless network configuration.

USB, SD card slot, HDMI, webcam

All work out of the box.

Fan control

The default fan settings allow the CPU to reach 70-85 °C before the fan speeds up. To make the laptop to run cooler, use i8kutils^AUR to manually set the fan start temperature. The BIOS seems to override fan control by default, so install dell-bios-fan-control-git^AUR to give control of the fan to the OS.

Note that this model only has one fan, and it is identified as the right fan. Setting the left fan speed has no effect. A working fan profile will look something like this:

set config(0)   {{- 0}  -1  50  -1  50}
set config(1)   {{- 1}  45  65  45  65}
set config(2)   {{- 2}  60  75  60  75}
set config(3)   {{- 2}  70 128  70 128}

See Fan speed control#Dell laptops for more information.