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Avell

Model version Date Video Sound Ethernet Wireless Bluetooth Power management Other Remarks
A40 LIV 2022-04-13 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Hibernation untested Small annoyances with brightness during reboot.
A70 MOB (RTX3060 version) 2022-09-18 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Hibernation untested* Thunderbolt: Untested *Performance is severely affected after waking from suspend, solution on the forums.

Casper

Model version Date Video Sound Ethernet Wireless Bluetooth Power management Other Remarks
Nirvana X600.5700 2024-01-24 Yes Yes Yes Yes Hibernation untested Internal keyboard only works with some kernel versions. See https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=291569 Add pnpacpi=off kernel parameter to fix internal keyboard.

Chuwi

Model version Date Video Sound Ethernet Wireless Bluetooth Power management Other Remarks
Corebook X (2022) 2022-06-26 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No, battery undetected Camera works
MiniBook X (2023) 2023-09-24 Yes* Yes Yes No Yes *Screen rotation needs to be set up to work correctly
MiniBook X N100 (2023) 2023-12-29 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Camera works,

dual accelerometer doesn't work*

*Screen rotation needs a workaround, tablet mode is impossible.

Clevo

Model version Date Video Sound Ethernet Wireless Bluetooth Power management Other Remarks
NP50DB 2020-09-25 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Hibernation: Untested Keyboard LEDs work with clevo packages from AUR (patched).
N130BU 2017-12-27 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Untested Touchpad works with libinput but awkard default config ("Tapping" disabled) Many small annoyances as some functionalities are not working out of the box.
M350 2006-01-05 Yes Yes Yes Partial: Hibernate not working IEEE-1394: Untested Front panel keys does not work
W150HRM 2011-08-19 Yes Yes Yes Yes Untested Untested
W110ER 2013-04-01 Yes Yes Yes Yes* Yes Yes USB3: Untested *Unreliable on some 802.11n networks: workaround by disabling 802.11n with 11n_disable=1
Tested only in BIOS mode, not in UEFI.

Colorful

Model version Date Video Sound Ethernet Wireless Bluetooth Power management Other Remarks
Colorful X15 AT (2023) 2023-03-15 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Keyboard shortcuts and backlight needs tuxedo-drivers-dkmsAUR No manual fan speed control.

Cube

Model version Date Video Sound Ethernet Wireless Bluetooth Power management Other Remarks
KNote i1101 2018-01-11 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Touchscreen needs gsl-firmware-gitAUR, Camera does not work Accelerometer needs bmc150_accel_i2c kernel module.

Eve/Dough

Model version Date Video Sound Ethernet Wireless Bluetooth Power management Other Remarks
Eve V (2017) (i7 version) 2022-08-23 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Camera does not work Accelerometer needs libad9361-iio-gitAUR

Fujitsu

Model version Date Video Sound Ethernet Wireless Bluetooth Power management Other Remarks
Lifebook WU4/H1 2023-06-03 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes The fingerprint reader also works with Fprint.
Lifebook U747 2023-01-01 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Suspend doesn't work* Occasionally the internal keyboard does not work on boot. This can be fixed by adding these modules to mkinitcpio.conf `serio_raw serio atkbd psmouse i8042` The device does not wake again. Otherwise, the suspend process seems to work.
Lifebook T902 2017-08-01 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Touchscreen drivers needs to be manually removed and re-added after suspend. Rotation lock, A and B buttons do nothing.
Tablet mode essentially unusable: rotating screen and disabling the keyboard / touchpad automatically does not work.
Lifebook T904 2014 Yes Untested Untested Yes Untested Untested The fingerprint reader does not appear to be a supported model. If unused, consider disabling physically in the BIOS. Update BIOS to version 1.08 to fix fan noise.
Amilo Se 1520 2007 Yes Yes* Untested Yes Yes *SPDIF and external microphone do not work. Internal microphone cannot be disabled and has no volume control.
Special buttons on the left side of the keyboard do not work out of the box.

Gateway

Model version Date Video Sound Ethernet Wireless Bluetooth Power management Other Remarks
MX6961 2007-05 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Hibernation untested Modem: Untested Fn keys for brightness and volume are unsupported.

Gigabyte

Model version Date Video Sound Ethernet Wireless Bluetooth Power management Other Remarks
Aero 14k 2018-02-07 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Thunderbolt: Untested Reset the BIOS to Windows 7 settings to boot the ArchISO.

Macro keys have to be defined using the windows application.

P34G v2 aka XMG C404 2020-06-27 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Poor power management drains the battery Touchpad intermittent on boot/reset with XMG firmware, works fine with attempted coreboot port, but could not figure out power management: device runs hot
Aero 15 Classic XA 2021-11-12 Yes* Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes *very low performance with HDMI, use Thunderbolt 3 docking station instead.
To use the webcam, enable the webcam option in BIOS manually (from default 'AUTO').
Macro keys have to be defined using the windows application.
Aorus 17 XE4 2022-08-18 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Use linux≥5.18 for best AlderLake-P performance.
Wake-from-suspend issue can be mitigated by kernel patching, see Intel graphics#Freeze after wake from sleep/suspend with Alder Lake-P, and using NVIDIA's proprietary driver (i.e. not nvidia-open).
Kernel parameters nowatchdog acpi_osi=! acpi_osi='Windows 2015' may also be necessary.
To change brightness with keyboard shortcuts, install opengigabyte-driver-dkms-gitAUR.
U4 2023-02-12 Yes Yes Yes Yes Untested Untested: SD-card reader Update to newest UEFI version to (partially) fix freezes on the GRUB menu when interacting or opening its' terminal. External USB keyboards will not work on the UEFI or grub menu.

Default NVME drive (ESR512GTLG-E6GBTNB4) has a very fragile firmware. If issued any NVME or S.M.A.R.T command, all filesystems fail to mount. The only known fix is to reboot. Also does not support any kind of namespace manipulation.

Honor

Model version Date Video Sound Ethernet Wireless Bluetooth Power management Other Remarks
Honor MagicBook Pro AMD 2023-07-12 Yes Yes Yes Yes Untested No: Fingerprint 27c6:5117

Mechrevo

Model version Date Video Sound Ethernet Wireless Bluetooth Power management Other Remarks
S2 Air 2020-08-05 Yes* Yes Yes Yes Yes Untested # echo [0-255] > /sys/class/backlight/amdgpu_bl0/brightness to change backlight.
*HDMI 2.0 (4K@60FPS) is noisy, favor HDMI 1.4 (4k@30FPS or lower)
Code 01 (Tongfang PF5NU1G) 2020-10-14 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Fn+F5 does not seem to have any effect
Code 01 v2 (Ryzen 7 6800H ver, 2022) 2024-01-29 Yes External earphone needs a second reboot to work Yes Yes Yes Suspend doesn't work when using amd_pstate=guided scheduler. Default scheduler works fine Needs to configure CPU from bios before install

Packard Bell

Model version Date Video Sound Ethernet Wireless Bluetooth Power management Other Remarks
dot SE 2018-09-30 Yes Yes Untested Yes Yes See Touchpad Synaptics for advanced functionality

Purism

Model version Date Video Sound Ethernet Wireless Bluetooth Power management Other Remarks
Librem 15v4 2019-07-26 HDMI Untested Yes Yes Yes Yes See https://puri.sm/products.
Might be applicable to Librem 13v4 too.

Teclast

Model version Date Video Sound Ethernet Wireless Bluetooth Power management Other Remarks
X16 Pro 2017-12-25 Yes Yes Yes Yes No Camera Add intel_idle.max_cstate=1 to the kernel parameters to avoid instability
X98 Plus II 2018-04-23 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Camera (Unicam ov2680)
X5 Pro 2017-04-20 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Camera

Xiaomi

Model version Date Video Sound Ethernet Wireless Bluetooth Power management Other Remarks
RedmiBook 14 ii AMD 2020-07-08 Yes Yes Yes Yes Only s2idle by default* *patch ACPI tables[dead link 2023-07-30 ⓘ] to add deep sleep

Lunnen

Model version Date Video Sound Ethernet Wireless Bluetooth Power management Other Remarks
Ground 16 2024-02-13 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Keyboard works only on 6.4 kernel, see Add amdgpu.sg_display=0 to the kernel parameters to fix flickering screen after sleep and pnpacpi=off to fix not working keyboard. Do not forget to turn off Fastboot in BIOS when you disable pnpacpi.