Dell Latitude E5430
| Device | Status | Modules |
| Intel | Working | xf86-video-intel |
| Ethernet | Working | tg3 |
| Wireless | Working | wl or b43 |
| Audio | Working | snd_hda_intel |
| Touchpad | Working | xf86-input-synaptics |
| Fingerprint | Working | fprintd |
| Camera | Working | linux-uvc |
| Card Reader | Working | sdhci_pci |
| Bluetooth | Working | btusb |
The Dell Latitude E5430 is a business line laptop made for corporate users who have a need for durability. This article will tell you how to get the basic components of the laptop running with Arch.
Hardware specification
| HW part | Description |
|---|---|
| CPU | Intel® Core™ i3, i5 e i7 up to i7-35xxM; Intel® Celeron® Bxxx |
| RAM | SDRAM DDR3 up to 1600 MHz, 2 slots for 1, 2, 4, or 8 GB DIMM |
| Chipset | Chipset Mobile Intel® HM77 Express or QM77 Express |
| Graphics | Intel® HD Graphics 3000 for Intel Core i3/i5/i7 2xxxM and Celeron® Bxxx, or Intel® HD Graphics 4000 for Intel Core i3/i5/i7 3xxxM |
| Display | 14,0" LED backlight anti-glare, HD (1366 x 768) or HD+ (1600 x 900) |
| Optical media | DVD-ROM, DVD+/-RW |
| Power | Lithium ion battery of 4 cells (40 Wh) or 6 cells (60 Wh) with ExpressCharge™, or 9 cells (97 Wh) |
| Connection | Bluetooth 4.0, 1x USB 3.0, 1x USB 3.0/eSata, 2x USB 2.0, 1x HDMI port, 1x VGA port |
Physical characteristics
| Height | 29,9 mm up to 32,5 mm |
|---|---|
| Width | 350,00 mm |
| Depth | 240,00 mm |
| Weight | 2,04 kg |
Hardware support
In this section you will find some quick information and references for hardware support. See Laptop and Laptop/Dell for more general information on laptops.
Audio
Audio works out of the box.
PC speaker capability is included. See PC speaker for information on how to disable it and more.
Bluetooth
Install the bluez package, start bluetooth systemd service and use your preferred front-end to manage connections. See Bluetooth for more information.
Fingerprint reader
Install the fprintd package, as it is required to create fingerprint signatures. See fprint for more useful information.
Touchpad
Install the libinput package. See Laptop#Touchpad.
Wireless
It has been reported to come with the chip Broadcom BCM43228 embedded in a Dell Wireless 1540 802.11 A/N Dual Band, High Speed Wi-Fi Half Mini-card, which can be confirmed by running the following:
$ lspci | grep Broadcom | grep -v Ethernet 02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM43228 802.11a/b/g/n
The driver to be used must be either the reverse-engineered open-source b43 module together with blob firmware b43-firmwareAUR, or the proprietary wl module via broadcom-wl or broadcom-wl-dkms.
See Broadcom wireless and Dell Wireless 1540 on WikiDevi for more info.
Troubleshooting
Issue with XKeyboardConfig
While starting the graphic interface, you might come across with the issue !6 reported in xkbcomp's Gitlab issue list at freedesktop Gitlab. It seems to apply to both Xorg and Wayland. During the display server startup, the XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomb) reports:
> Warning: Compat map for group 2 redefined > Using new definition > Warning: Compat map for group 3 redefined > Using new definition > Warning: Compat map for group 4 redefined > Using new definition Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
One solution is to comment out the following lines in the file /usr/share/X11/xkb/compat/basic. The double forward-slash is the comment symbol.
// group 2 = AltGr; // group 3 = AltGr; // group 4 = AltGr;
This solution of provided in the forum thread Xkeyboard/xkbcomp gives warnings.
Hardware Information
Modules found by hwdetect:
AGP : intel-gtt ACPI : ac battery button processor thermal video BLOCK : scsi_mod sd_mod sr_mod ahci libahci libata uvcvideo usbcore ehci-hcd ehci-pci xhci-hcd usb-common BLUETOOTH: btusb bluetooth CDROM : cdrom CPUFREQ : acpi-cpufreq CRYPTO : aes-x86_64 aesni-intel crc32-pclmul crc32c-intel crct10dif-pclmul ghash-clmulni-intel glue_helper ablk_helper crct10dif_common crct10dif_generic cryptd gf128mul lrw DRM : drm drm_kms_helper i915 HWMON : coretemp hwmon I2C : i2c-algo-bit i2c-i801 i2c-core INPUT : evdev joydev atkbd psmouse mousedev i8042 libps2 serio serio_raw sparse-keymap hid-generic hid usbhid KVM : kvm-intel kvm MEDIA : media uvcvideo videobuf2-core videobuf2-memops videobuf2-vmalloc videodev NET : tg3 libphy bluetooth 6lowpan_iphc rfkill PARPORT : parport parport_pc SOUND : pcspkr snd-hwdep snd-pcm snd-timer snd snd-hda-codec snd-hda-controller snd-hda-intel soundcore WATCHDOG : iTCO_vendor_support iTCO_wdt OTHER : microcode dcdbas led-class mac_hid lpc_ich mei-me mei mmc_core sdhci-pci sdhci shpchp dell-laptop dell-wmi wmi intel_rapl pps_core ptp intel_powerclamp x86_pkg_temp_thermal crc-t10dif crc16
lspci output:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor DRAM Controller (rev 09) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09) 00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller (rev 04) 00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04) 00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev c4) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev c4) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev c4) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev c4) 00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 6 (rev c4) 00:1c.6 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 7 (rev c4) 00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation HM77 Express Chipset LPC Controller (rev 04) 00:1f.2 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] (rev 04) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 04) 02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43228 802.11a/b/g/n 0b:00.0 SD Host controller: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ600FJ0/OZ900FJ0/OZ600FJS SD/MMC Card Reader Controller (rev 05) 0c:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5761 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 10)
lsusb output:
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 005: ID 08ff:2810 AuthenTec, Inc. AES2810 Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0c45:643f Microdia Dell Integrated HD Webcam Bus 001 Device 003: ID 413c:8197 Dell Computer Corp. Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub