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Full Hardware Reference:
http://downloads.dell.com/Manuals/all-products/esuprt_laptop/esuprt_inspiron_laptop/inspiron-15-5547-laptop_Reference%20Guide_en-us.pdf
Name | Dell Inspiron 15 (5547, Early 2014) |
Processor | Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4510U CPU @ 2.00GHz |
Screen | 15“ at 1366×768 pixels |
RAM | 8GB |
HDD | ships with 1TB WD Blue replaced with SSD |
Optical Drive | N/A |
Graphics | Hybrid AMD Radeon R7 M260 (2GB DDR3) and Intel HD Graphics 4400 (Shared Memory) |
Network | Ethernet Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102E , Wi‑Fi 802.11 ac/b/g/n Intel Wireless 3160, Bluetooth 4.0 |
Using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Device | Compatibility | Comments |
---|---|---|
Processor | Yes | |
Screen | Yes | |
HDD | Yes | |
Graphics Chip | Yes/Partial | Using AMD Catalyst™ 14.12 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver. See notes below. |
HDMI Port | Yes | Sound not tested |
Sound | Yes | See notes below |
Bulti-in Microphone | Yes | |
Headphone Jack | Yes | Headset Jack |
Microphone/Headset Jack | Yes | Tested with Headset |
Ethernet | Yes | |
Wireless | Yes | |
Bluetooth | Not Tested | |
USB | Yes | |
Card Reader | Yes | |
Webcam | Yes | |
Touch Pad | Partial | Pointer starts jumping after a while with synaptics 1.7.4-0ubuntu1 in 14.04. Might be fixed in upstream. |
Suspend/Resume | No/Maybe | Display remains black, or machine freeze. Did not debug. |
Sound
Problem: alsa is using the HDMI audio output as first “default device”
Fix: Edit /etc/asound.conf
pcm.!default { type plug slave { pcm "hw:1,0" } } ctl.!default { type hw card 1 }
Graphics
Tested:
Catalyst
Using Catalyst it is only possible to use radeon or intel at a time. No application based switching.
14.20, 15.3, 15.7, 15.9 all show tearing on desktop and games.
/var/log/Xorg.0.log notes:
(II) fglrx(0): TearFreeDesktop is not supported on PowerXpress systems currently.
See Bug: http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467
AMDGPU
Topaz/Iceland is supported by amdgpu from kernel v4.5-rc3. xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu is required and not available on trusty.
Older kernels will trigger the following bug:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91330
Intel
Complete Tear Free alternative: Purge fglrx and use intel only with the following X11 configuration. (Switching to intel via amdcccle does not solve the tearing.)
/etc/X11/xorg.conf Section "Device" Identifier "intel" Driver "intel" Option "TearFree" "True" EndSection
Hardware Video Decoding
vlc can use the Intel i965 card for video decoding using VA-API
$ sudo apt-get install i965-va-driver $ vainfo libva info: VA-API version 0.35.0 libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0 libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i965_drv_video.so libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_35 libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0 vainfo: VA-API version: 0.35 (libva 1.3.0) vainfo: Driver version: Intel i965 driver - 1.3.0 vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileVC1Simple : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileVC1Main : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileNone : VAEntrypointVideoProc VAProfileJPEGBaseline : VAEntrypointVLD
# lspci -nn 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT DRAM Controller [8086:0a04] (rev 0b) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0a16] (rev 0b) 00:03.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT HD Audio Controller [8086:0a0c] (rev 0b) 00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 8 Series USB xHCI HC [8086:9c31] (rev 04) 00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation 8 Series HECI #0 [8086:9c3a] (rev 04) 00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 8 Series HD Audio Controller [8086:9c20] (rev 04) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 8 Series PCI Express Root Port 3 [8086:9c14] (rev e4) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 8 Series PCI Express Root Port 4 [8086:9c16] (rev e4) 00:1c.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 8 Series PCI Express Root Port 5 [8086:9c18] (rev e4) 00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 8 Series USB EHCI #1 [8086:9c26] (rev 04) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 8 Series LPC Controller [8086:9c43] (rev 04) 00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 8 Series SATA Controller 1 [AHCI mode] [8086:9c03] (rev 04) 00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 8 Series SMBus Controller [8086:9c22] (rev 04) 01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 07) 02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Wireless 3160 [8086:08b3] (rev 83) 03:00.0 Display controller [0380]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Topaz XT [Radeon R7 M260/M265] [1002:6900]
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