Dell Latitude E5430

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Hardware
PCI/USB ID
Working?
GPU
Yes
Ethernet
Yes
Wireless
Yes
Audio
Yes
Touchpad
Yes
Fingerprint
Yes
Camera
Yes
Card Reader
Yes
Bluetooth
Yes
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-firmware
AUR
, 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
.