

The utility is able to turn on and off the dedicated graphics card ondemand and without having to restart the computer or reopening session. To have switchable graphics see bumblebee instructions. The following kernel error seems to be harmless.ģc:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E2400 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 10)ģd:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 32) # echo "options ath10k_core skip_otp=y" | tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/nfĪfter a reboot, wireless should work, including wifi-ac speeds.įor Alienware 13 R3, the wifi works out of box. It was tested on Kernel 4.2.5-1 as follows: If that helps, consider blacklisting the module.Īt the moment of writing this, the wifi network of the Alienware13 is a Atheros Qualcomm Killer N1525, which is not configured by the default installation.Ġ1:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 20)Ġ2:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E220x Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 10)įortunately, the enclosed patch is able to get it to work. If the touchpad does not work, try to unload the i2c_hid module:Īnd restart the graphical environment. 2015 works fine and also enables ACPI reboot.

When using 2009, reboot is not available. In the meantime you can add the following to your kernel commandline at boot: acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2009" There are kernel bug and bumblebee bug open to track this issue. The Kaby lake R3 suffers from a X lockup when either trying to start X or running lspci when the discrete GPU is off. Try to erase all default parameters and use only nomodeset. If this happens, we must change the kernel parameters to get ArchLinux to boot.

The first issue that we can find is that the distribution does not boot but gets stuck into a nouveau loop or a black screen. 9 Switching Windows from RAID to AHCI modeįirst of all we must create a bootable usb, after that we must reboot the computer and press F12 button while the bios is loading to access to the boot menu, from there we select the USB and boot from there.8 OLED screen does not light up after resume.
