# Acer Aspire S7-392

This page contains instructions, tips, pointers, and links for installing and configuring Arch Linux on the Acer Aspire S7-392 Laptop.

This page only applies to the 392 model (4th Gen Intel CPU), and may not be entirely correct for the 391 or 191 models (3rd Gen Intel CPU).

## Compatibility

The laptop works surprisingly well with Arch Linux, requiring minimal or no configuration hacking, depending on your desired setup.

### What works?

- Touchscreen
- Touchpad Multitouch Gestures
- Screen Brightness Adjustment
  - Requres a window manager or desktop environment with the functionality, such as XFCE, Gnome, or Mate.
  - Alternatively, a hotkey daemon such as acpid may provide hotkey functionality (Not tested).
- Keyboard Backlight (And adjustment)
- Most Keyboard Hotkeys
  - Wireless Toggle may not work. acpid may work with it (Not tested)
- Wireless Networking

### What doesn't work, or is weird?

- Nothing as far as I can tell

## BIOS Setup

The BIOS Setup utility is accessed by pressing Fn+2 at the Acer Logo screen during startup.

## Booting

The information in Boot loaders applies here. GRUB is confirmed to work.

### Change Boot from UEFI to BIOS

If desired, you can optionally select whether to use BIOS or UEFI when booting. This is an option in the BIOS Setup utility.

### Boot from USB

Booting from USB is possible by reordering boot devices in the BIOS setup, or by accessing the Boot Menu by pressing the "Fn" key and "=" key simultaneously (Translates to F12).

## Graphics Drivers

Note: With the default setup, there will be graphics tearing on the S7-392. You can check the "Tear-free video" section of the Intel Graphics page for information on fixing tearing

The standard xf86-video-intel driver works with the laptop. For 32-bit games or other cases where necessary, you'll want to install lib32-intel-dri in addition to the xf86 driver.

## Multitouch Gestures

The touchpad works well with xf86-input-synaptics, and with touchegg for advanced multitouch gestures.

Note: Contrary to what most of the internet says, you don't need to use xf86-input-evdev to make Touchegg work.
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