Dell Precision 5570

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Hardware
PCI/USB ID
Working?
Touchpad
Yes
Keyboard
Yes
GPU (Intel)
8086:46a6
Yes
GPU (NVIDIA)
Yes
Webcam
0c45:6d1f
Yes
Bluetooth
Yes
SD Card reader
Yes
Audio
8086:51c8
Yes
Wi-Fi
8086:51f0
Yes
Fingerprint reader
27c6:63ac
Yes
TPM
Untested
Installation
You can enter the bios menu with
F2
, disable
Secure Boot
or you will not be able to boot the Arch Linux image.
You can enter the bios one-time boot menu with
F12
.
With both disk inserted, boot to any of them individually with the firmware storage mode set to RAID (default setting) remains possible. One may consider setting the mode to AHCI.
See the following
forum post
for more information on storage modes.
Accessibility
The appearance of the UEFI is pretty simple and not very colorful, so it might work well with OCR software. However, it requires the user to use a mouse.
Note
Blind users should request the help of a sighted person to change UEFI settings
Firmware
fwupd
is supported on this device and it is advised to upgrade the firmware version before configure it as new options will likely be added.
If using two disk with an
EFI system partition
on both,
fwupd
will need your help to figure out your current EFI system partition.
Secure Boot
The UEFI accepts
.auth
files.
Firmware data path
The UEFI stores logs, telemetry and recovery images in
ESP
/EFI/Dell
.
Recovery images are stored in
ESP
/EFI/Dell/bios/recovery
. It appears that there will only be two images at the same time,
BIOS_CUR.rcv
and
BIOS_PRE.rcv
.
Those files will be created when the UEFI was updated.
The firmware also expose some telemetry (metrics) that you could use in
ESP
/EFI/Dell/BiosTelemetry
. It seems to have file for previous boots, formatted in json.
Logs
ESP
/EFI/dell/logs
contains XML files which contain diagnostics data (SupportAssist).
It appears that there will only be two logs at the same time,
diags_previous.xml
and
diags_current.xml
.
Those files will be created when an error happened and are really useful to troubleshoot any issue you may have with the laptop or when plugged with external devices.
LFE Speakers
By default only the front speakers are enable. To enable the LFE speakers,
install
alsa-tools
.
Tip
To avoid a restart, stop your audio service (e.g.
PipeWire
) before doing the following settings, and start it over afterwards.
With
hdajackretask
:
Choose
Realtek ALC289
in codec menu,
Check
Show unconnected pins
,
Enable Pin ID
Ox17
and select
Internal Speaker (LFE)
,
Enable Pin ID
0x1e
ans select
Internal Speaker
,
Click
Apply Now
,
Click
Install boot override
.
Fingerprint reader
Fingerprint authentication works flawlessly. The sensor is located under the power button on the top right corner of the keyboard. Just follow the steps in
fprint
. This amounts to installing
fprintd
and configuring
PAM
appropriately. Then registering (or in fprint lingo: enrolling) your fingerprint with
fprintd-enroll
USERNAME
.
Battery charge limit
In order to extend the lifetime of the laptop battery, charge limits can be set. There is a Dell utility to do this called
Dell Command Configure
, but it only supports old versions of Ubuntu, and does not work with Arch due to dependencies on old system libraries.
But there is a better solution. Install
libsmbios
. Then, to limit the charge level to 80%:
# smbios-battery-ctl --set-custom-charge-interval 75 80
# smbios-battery-ctl --set-charging-mode=custom
Note
It is not obvious what effect, if any, the lower charge limit [75 in the example above] has.
To revert to the default settings:
# smbios-battery-ctl --set-charging-mode=adaptive
Source:
https://askubuntu.com/a/1351481