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Aspire

Model version Date Video Sound Ethernet Wireless Bluetooth Power management Other Remarks
Aspire 5100-3825 2006-12-18 Yes Yes Yes Yes – Untested Untested: Hot keys
Aspire 1501LMi 2007-08-01 Yes Yes Yes Untested – Untested: Sleep Untested: Hot keys
Aspire 5024 2006-05-23 Yes Yes Yes Yes – Untested Suspend: Video and Wi-Fi problems
Aspire 7720 2009-02 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Partial card reader: only SD cards seem to work; special keys (Acer Arcade, direct access to browser/mail) seem to not work; FireWire: untested. Update BIOS to fix ACPI and wireless problems.
Hibernation: still flaky (often hangs in the middle of restoring)
Aspire v5-171 2013-10-06 Yes Yes Yes Yes Untested Untested
Aspire 5745(P)G 2014-04-20 Yes Yes Yes Yes Untested Yes Install xf86-input-egalaxAUR for the P version touchscreen Update to BIOS v1.15 to see battery informations.
Aspire E5-573 2015-12 Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes
Aspire 7730 2009-08 Yes Yes Yes Yes – Yes Untested:
HDMI
Card reader 		options snd-hda-intel model=laptop added to /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf to get headphone output working
Problem booting install CD
Solved with ln -sf /dev/sr0 /dev/archiso at ramfs
Aspire 4935 2009-08 Yes Yes Yes Yes Untested Yes No: Audio "hot key"/"touch panel"
Aspire 2920Z 2009-02 Yes Yes Yes Yes – Yes No: Blue e on the left
Aspire 5735z 2014-09-03 Yes Yes Yes Yes Untested Yes
Aspire E1-531 2016-07-01 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Aspire V3-371 2015-07-06 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Untested See #Flaky Secure Boot
Aspire V3-372 2016-09-29 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Untested Set touchpad to basic in BIOS, then enable it with Fn+F7. See #Flaky Secure Boot
Aspire V3-572G 2017-09-11 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Suspend/resume + nvidia prop. drivers ("gpu has fallen off the bus"). Fix/workaround: append rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay=1 acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2009" to kernel parameters.

Headphone microphone does not work. Fix: Create a file on /etc/modprobe.d inserting this options snd_hda_intel model=dell-headset-multi,aspire-headset-mic

Aspire F5-573G-7791 2016-12-01 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Hibernation: Untested Untested
Webcam
HDMI
USB-C 		See #Flaky Secure Boot. Reportedly fixed on firmware update 1.31.
Aspire E5-575G-5538 2017-02-01 Yes Yes Yes Yes Untested Hibernation: Untested See #Flaky Secure Boot.
Aspire E5-553-T337 2018-08-07 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Aspire E5-422G-68PL 2020-07-21 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Partial Disable "Advanced Features" for the Touchpad in BIOS to unlock more functions than with it on Windows. Sleep & Hibernation issues when R5 GPU gets used in any way
Aspire 3 A315-41-R09T 2019-03-01 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Add ivrs_ioapic[4]=00:14.0 ivrs_ioapic[5]=00:00.2: fixes erratic behavior and stuck at boot or shutdown. noapic during installation only is suggested.
Aspire 3 A315-51-524S 2019-11-11 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Aspire 3 A315-510P 2024-02-08 Yes Yes* – Yes Yes Yes Secure boot with custom keys acer-wmi-battery for battery health control
Aspire 3 A315-53G-52A4 2019-11-01 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Aspire E5-476G 2019-06-01 Yes Yes Untested Yes Untested Yes
Aspire 5 A515-51G-5072 2024-02-17 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes: Sleep
No: Hibernate 		Untested: Card Reader - Reboot the laptop if bootable USB fails to get recognized.
- Add pci=noaer and nosgx as kernel parameters to supress boot log spam.
- Add wifi.powersave=2 in NetworkManager config to prevent WiFi throttling.
- Use EnvyControl to shut off Nvidia dGPU
Aspire 5 A515-56-5952 2022-11-09 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Disable VMD in BIOS to improve battery life and reach S0ix (use Ctrl+S to show hidden settings).

S3 sleep is broken in latest BIOS, downgrade to v1.28 to fix this issue.
Aspire A514-53 2023-05-19 Yes Yes Untested Yes Yes Untested: Hibernate
Aspire A515-45-R5SM 2023-06-10 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Fingerprint reader only seems to work occasionally
Aspire A514-55 2024-05-17 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Untested: Fingerprint sensor
Aspire 5 Spin A5SP14-51MTN 2024-04-05 Yes Yes Yes No No Untested Untested: Fingerprint sensor

AspireOne

Model version Date Video Sound Ethernet Wireless Bluetooth Power management Other Remarks
AspireOne D255e 2011-04-27 Yes Yes Yes Yes Untested Untested
Aspire One Cloudbook 11 2016-08 Yes Yes – Yes Yes Hibernate: Untested HDMI: Untested See #Flaky Secure Boot.

Travelmate

Model version Date Video Sound Ethernet Wireless Bluetooth Power management Other Remarks
Travelmate 6292 2008-06-24 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Untested Untested:
Hot keys
FireWire
TravelMate 8371G (TM8371G-944G32n) 2010-05 Partial: iGPU only Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Fingerprint reader does not seem to have a driver No fan control
Suspend to RAM requires i8042.reset=1
TravelMate TimelineX 8473T 2016-02-01 Yes Yes Untested Yes Untested Untested Sound, sleep, wireless, brightness require configuration

Nitro

Model version Date Video Sound Ethernet Wireless Bluetooth Power management Other Remarks
Nitro VN7-791G-74DL 2016-01-01 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Fan control requires porting drivers from windows
Nitro VN7-792G-710p 2016-10-01 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Untested: Webcam
HDMI
Nitro VN7-792G-751Y 2016-12-01 Partial* Partial* Yes Yes Yes Yes *HDMI and Microphone do not work
Nitro VN7-572G 2019-02-01 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Sound Recording: problem seems already reported
See #Flaky Secure Boot.
Nitro VN7-571G-51R8 2024-07-15 Yes Yes Untested Yes Yes Yes
Nitro AN515-43 2022-02-01 Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Untested: HDMI For fan control, use nbfc-linuxAUR
Nitro AN515-45 2022-09-06 Yes Yes Yes Yes Untested Yes Untested: HDMI For better power optimization, use auto-cpufreqAUR. For fan control, use nbfc-linuxAUR with AN515-43 configuration. For switching between GPUs see PRIME#PRIME render offload.

Predator

Model version Date Video Sound Ethernet Wireless Bluetooth Power management Other Remarks
Predator Helios 300, PH315-53 2021-07 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Untested
Predator Helios 500, PH517-61 2022-09 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Untested ITE8987 SuperIO not supported:
  • PWM Fan speed cannot be manually set
  • Cannot read fan speed
  • Cannot set RGB lighting for keyboard
  • Cannot turn border lighting around trackpad on and off
  • Predator quicklaunch keys does not function

Swift

Model version Date Video Sound Ethernet Wireless Bluetooth Power management Other Remarks
Swift 3 SF315-52-52YN 2020-09-05 Yes Yes* – Yes Yes Yes *See Acer Swift 5#Kernel modules parameters
Swift 5 SF515-51T 2019-06-01 Yes Yes* – Yes Yes Yes *See Acer Swift 5#Kernel modules parameters
Swift Go SFG16-72 2024-10-07 Yes Yes – Yes Yes Yes acer-wmi-battery for battery health control

Enduro

Model version Date Video Sound Ethernet Wireless Bluetooth Power management Other Remarks
Enduro N3 EN314-51W-55LW 2021-08-28 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Untested:
SD Card Reader
VGA
HDMI
USB-C DisplayPort
RS232
Smart Card Reader
Fingerprint Reader 		*See #Flaky Secure Boot and #Switching NVMe mode to AHCI

Troubleshooting

Flaky Secure Boot

Some models have a peculiar Secure Boot implementation which requires the following workaround to boot successfully the installation medium:

  1. To start on a clean slate, clear trusted bootloaders within the Secure Boot settings
  2. Save, reboot, return to UEFI
  3. Add the bootloader as a trusted UEFI file
    1. To add a file as a trusted bootloader, you may have to set a supervisor password: do not lose it
  4. Save, reboot, return to UEFI
  5. Disables Secure Boot
  6. The bootloader should now appear in the list even if Secure Boot is disabled

You may have to repeat these steps every firmware update.

Aspire 3 A315-56 internal storage not showing up

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Notes: This is getting long enough to warrant a dedicated page, if anyone with this laptop and enough time can make it while following Help:Laptop page guidelines? (Discuss in Talk:Laptop/Acer)

The firmware has a bug where you cannot see the internal SATA storage after first booting up. At boot, the bootloader can see the internal storage but the initial ramdisk is unable to see it due to this bug.

The only known solution to this is suspending and waking it up.

Add an early custom hook to put the laptop to sleep before the step to mount the filesystems: 

/etc/initcpio/install/suspend-to-ram
#!/bin/bash
build() { 
        add_binary date
        add_runscript
}
help() {
        echo "Suspend to RAM before filesystems get mounted so the initial ramdisk can see the internal storage"
}

/etc/initcpio/hooks/suspend-to-ram
#!/bin/bash
run_hook() {
        FILE='/sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm'
        EPOCH_TIME="$(date '+%s')"
        if ! echo 0 > "$FILE"; then
                reboot -f
        elif ! echo "$((EPOCH_TIME + 2))" > "$FILE"; then
                reboot -f
        elif ! echo mem > /sys/power/state; then
                reboot -f
        fi
}

This custom hook will reset the RTC alarm clock and set an alarm 2 seconds into the future for device wake-up, so you do not have to manually wake-up the laptop.

Add it the mkinitcpio HOOKS: 

/etc/mkinitcpio.conf
...
HOOKS=(base udev autodetect microcode modconf kms keyboard keymap consolefont block filesystems suspend-to-ram fsck)
...

Finally regenerate the initramfs.

Warning: If you are using a Solid State Drive as your internal storage, after waking up from sleep, your SSD will most likely have changed its security state from "SEC2" to "SEC1". This will leave your SSD vulnerable to any ATA SECURE ERASE commands, with anyone with root access being able to issue the aforementioned command and irrecoverably destroy all data on the SSD.

It is therefore highly recommended to issue an ATA SECURITY FREEZE LOCK command immediately after waking up, add add_binary hdparm to the build() function of the install hook and place the following commands at the end of the above run_hook() function of the runtime hook: 

sleep 1s
hdparm --security-freeze /dev/disk/by-id/ata-name-of-disk
Tip: Using this solution, when waking up from sleep, you cannot see the rest of the boot process until you reach the login screen, so consider adding rd.debug rd.log=file to your kernel parameters so you can see the boot messages from the initial ramdisk in /run/initramfs/init.log.

Switching NVMe mode to AHCI

Linux does not support Optane with RAID NVMe mode which is default on some devices. The workaround is to swich NVMe mode to AHCI.

One can switch the mode on the Main tab of BIOS setup. This option is hidden by default and unavailable until Supervisor password set.

Warning: It is hard to reset Supervisor password if forgotten. Memorize it and write it down somewhere.

To set Supervisor password:

  1. Enter BIOS setup by pressing F2 on boot-up.
  2. Navigate to Security tab.
  3. Select Set Supervisor Password option.
  4. Enter the new password.
  5. Exit BIOS setup saving changes.

To change NVMe mode (might not be possible until Supervisor password set):

  1. Enter BIOS setup by pressing F2 on boot-up.
  2. Enter Supervisor password.
  3. Navigate to Main tab.
  4. Hit Ctrl+s. Option SATA mode will appear.
  5. Set SATA Mode to AHCI.
  6. Exit BIOS setup saving settings.

Mode key and fan speed monitoring are not working for some gaming laptops

If your laptop uses predator sense app v4 or newer on windows, but mode key and fan speed monitoring are not working on linux, try acer_wmi.predator_v4=1 kernel module parameter to enable these features. And you can change mode key's behavior (toggling turbo mode or rotating each mode) using acer_wmi.cycle_gaming_thermal_profile.

Note: cycle_gaming_thermal_profile is supported on kernel since 6.8 and predator_v4 is supported since 6.8.6.