Dell G7 7700

Hardware	PCI/USB ID	Working?
GPU (Intel)		Yes
GPU (Nvidia)		Yes
Wireless		Yes
Bluetooth		Yes
Audio		Yes
Touchpad		Yes
Webcam		Yes
Card reader		Yes
Ethernet		Yes
Fingerprint		No

This page describes Dell G7 7700 laptop.

Installation

• Disable RAID and switch to AHCI in UEFI (System Configuration → SATA Operation → AHCI).
• Disable Secure Boot to be able to install the sytem (Secure Boot → Secure Boot Enable → Disable).
• Install Arch Linux as usual using UEFI installation method.

Firmware

fwupd is not tested with this laptop, but you can format USB drive using FAT32 filesystem and put BIOS update executable on it. Reboot, start boot menu (using F12) and select "BIOS Flash Update" menu entry as explained in the Dell support article.

Keyboard

Control keyboard backlight

Only ON or OFF (no intensity value). See Keyboard backlight.

RGB backlight

Alienware component not recognized by alienFX. Default BIOS configuration only.