Dell Inspiron 13 (5378)

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Hardware
PCI/USB ID
Working?
Audio
8086:9d71
Yes
Bluetooth
0cf3:e007
Yes
GPU
8086:5916
Yes
Infrared camera
Untested
Touchpad
PS/2
Yes
Touchscreen
04f3:2494
Yes
Webcam
0bda:58c2
Yes
Wi-Fi
168c:003e
Yes
Installation
Nearly everything works out of the box when the
Installation guide
is followed.
If the laptop cannot boot the Arch Linux
USB flash installation medium
, then USB boot could be disabled—this can be fixed using the
Enable Boot Support
option under
System Configuration/USB Configuration
in the
#Firmware
.
Install
the
linux-firmware-intel
and
linux-firmware-atheros
Linux firmware
packages.
Graphics
The Intel integrated graphics work well with the
mesa
OpenGL
driver.
Install
mesa
and, if desired,
mesa-utils
.
The
i915
driver built into the kernel is reliable. The
i915
kernel module should be loaded automatically as long as
nomodeset
is not set as a
kernel parameter
—see
Intel graphics#Loading
.
Note
The Intel Vulkan drivers may cause issues with display managers such as
lightdm
or
sddm
if these are running in X: sometimes the machine will boot to a black screen with magenta stripes. These issues can be fixed by reverting to the
i915
driver.
Touchscreen
The touchscreen works out of the box—see
Tablet PC
and
Touchscreen
for information on getting the most from your touchscreen.
Tip
If you use
Firefox
, you may want to enable touchscreen scrolling, zooming, and long-press gestures—see
Firefox/Tweaks#Enable touchscreen gestures
.
Infrared camera
The
Realtek infrared camera
is optional, and is not present in all Inspiron 13 (5378) models. It can be used for facial recognition software such as
howdy
AUR
.
Howdy
has been tested and works
on the Dell Inspiron 5379, which has the
same IR camera model
as the 5378.
Accessibility
See
Laptop/Dell#Accessibility
.
The boot menu is simple text (not graphical) against a black background.
See the
#Firmware
section below for instructions to access the firmware.
Firmware
UEFI firmware and other device firmware is available through the
Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS)
, and can be installed using
fwupd
.
The boot menu can be accessed by pressing (spamming)
F12
at boot, when the Dell logo first appears. This will bring up a text-only boot menu which will contains two headings (unless legacy/BIOS boot devices are available):
UEFI Boot
and
Other Options
. No keys need to be pressed to switch between headings. The
BIOS Setup
entry at the bottom. Cursor to this using the arrow keys and hit
Enter
to select it.
The firmware can be accessed directly by pressing (spamming)
F2
at boot, when the Dell logo first appears. A message,
Entering Setup
, should appear when the system acknowledges the
F2
keypress.
Note
The
Fn
lock is on by default. The keystroke is
Fn+F2
instead of
F2
if Fn lock is enabled. See
#Function keys
.
Function keys
Key
Visible?
Marked?
Effect
Fn+Esc
No
Yes
Toggles Fn lock
Fn+F1
Yes
Yes
XF86AudioMute
Fn+F2
Yes
Yes
XF86AudioLowerVolume
Fn+F3
Yes
Yes
XF86AudioRaiseVolume
Fn+F4
Yes
Yes
XF86AudioPrev
Fn+F5
Yes
Yes
XF86AudioPlay
Fn+F6
Yes
Yes
XF86AudioNext
Fn+F7
No
No
None
Fn+F8
Yes
Yes
Presses Super+P
Fn+F9
Yes
Yes
XF86Search
Fn+F10
No
Yes
Toggles keyboard backlight
Fn+F11
Yes
Yes
XF86MonBrightnessDown
Fn+F12
Yes
Yes
XF86MonBrightnessUp
Fn+PrtScr
Yes
Yes
XF86RFKill
Fn+Up
No
Yes
PgUp
Fn+Down
No
Yes
PgDn
Fn+Left
No
Yes
Home
Fn+Right
No
Yes
End
Fn+Ctrl (Right)
No
Yes
Menu
Fan control
The default fan settings allow the CPU to reach 70-85 °C before the fan speeds up. To make the laptop to run cooler, use
i8kutils
AUR
to manually set the fan start temperature. The BIOS seems to override fan control by default, so
install
dell-bios-fan-control-git
AUR
to give control of the fan to the OS. Note that manually setting the fan profile has a drawback of not letting the fan reach full speed (6000 RPM BIOS control, 5000 RPM manual) since Dell did not publish documentation for the fan.
This model only has one fan, and it is identified as the right fan. Setting the left fan speed has no effect. A working fan profile using
dell-bios-fan-control-git
AUR
will look something like this:
set config(0)   {{- 0}  -1  50  -1  50}
set config(1)   {{- 1}  45  65  45  65}
set config(2)   {{- 2}  60  75  60  75}
set config(3)   {{- 2}  70 128  70 128}
See
Fan speed control#Dell laptops
for more information.