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# Dell Latitude E5430

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Device | Status | Modules
--- | --- | ---
Intel | Working | xf86-video-intel
Ethernet | Working | tg3
Wireless | Working | wl or b43
Audio | Working | snd_hda_intel
Touchpad | Working | xf86-input-synaptics
Fingerprint | Working | fprintd
Camera | Working | linux-uvc
Card Reader | Working | sdhci_pci
Bluetooth | Working | btusb

The Dell Latitude E5430 is a business line laptop made for corporate users who have a need for durability. This article will tell you how to get the basic components of the laptop running with Arch.

## Hardware specification

HW part | Description
--- | ---
CPU | Intel® Core™ i3, i5 e i7 up to i7-35xxM; Intel® Celeron® Bxxx
RAM | SDRAM DDR3 up to 1600 MHz, 2 slots for 1, 2, 4, or 8 GB DIMM
Chipset | Chipset Mobile Intel® HM77 Express or QM77 Express
Graphics | Intel® HD Graphics 3000 for Intel Core i3/i5/i7 2xxxM and Celeron® Bxxx, or Intel® HD Graphics 4000 for Intel Core i3/i5/i7 3xxxM
Display | 14,0" LED backlight anti-glare, HD (1366 x 768) or HD+ (1600 x 900)
Optical media | DVD-ROM, DVD+/-RW
Power | Lithium ion battery of 4 cells (40 Wh) or 6 cells (60 Wh) with ExpressCharge™, or 9 cells (97 Wh)
Connection | Bluetooth 4.0, 1x USB 3.0, 1x USB 3.0/eSata, 2x USB 2.0, 1x HDMI port, 1x VGA port

Physical characteristics

Height | 29,9 mm up to 32,5 mm
Width | 350,00 mm
Depth | 240,00 mm
Weight | 2,04 kg

## Hardware support

In this section you will find some quick information and references for hardware support. See Laptop and Laptop/Dell for more general information on laptops.

### Audio

Audio works out of the box.

PC speaker capability is included. See PC speaker for information on how to disable it and more.

### Bluetooth

Install the bluez package, start `bluetooth` systemd service and use your preferred front-end to manage connections. See Bluetooth for more information.

### Fingerprint reader

Install the fprintd package, as it is required to create fingerprint signatures. See fprint for more useful information.

### Touchpad

Install the libinput package. See Laptop#Touchpad.

### Wireless

It has been reported to come with the chip Broadcom BCM43228 embedded in a Dell Wireless 1540 802.11 A/N Dual Band, High Speed Wi-Fi Half Mini-card, which can be confirmed by running the following:

     $ lspci | grep Broadcom | grep -v Ethernet
     02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM43228 802.11a/b/g/n

The driver to be used must be either the reverse-engineered open-source `b43` module together with blob firmware b43-firmwareAUR, or the proprietary `wl` module via broadcom-wl or broadcom-wl-dkms.

See Broadcom wireless and Dell Wireless 1540 on WikiDevi for more info.

## Troubleshooting

### Issue with XKeyboardConfig

While starting the graphic interface, you might come across with the issue !6 reported in xkbcomp's Gitlab issue list at freedesktop Gitlab. It seems to apply to both Xorg and Wayland. During the display server startup, the XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomb) reports:

    > Warning:          Compat map for group 2 redefined
    >                   Using new definition
    > Warning:          Compat map for group 3 redefined
    >                   Using new definition
    > Warning:          Compat map for group 4 redefined
    >                   Using new definition
    Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server

One solution is to comment out the following lines in the file `/usr/share/X11/xkb/compat/basic`. The double forward-slash is the comment symbol.

     //    group 2 = AltGr;
     //    group 3 = AltGr;
     //    group 4 = AltGr;

This solution of provided in the forum thread Xkeyboard/xkbcomp gives warnings.

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