XMG A507

This laptop is based on Clevo N850HJ(?), available with different configurations.

Installation
Installed in non-UEFI mode. Recommend Live-Distributions that do not boot into X11, since they will freeze most certainly. Use Gentoo's DVD.

Firmware
Required for WiFi.

Kernel
Latest (stable) kernel is recommended.

Keyboard backlight
clevo-xsm-wmi module required to get control over keyboard backlight. After building and loading this module, you can turn the backlight off or change colours etc.

This module may not work with kernel version 4.14 at this time, see the bug report.

Freezes with X11, or when switching to tty from X11
Happens on my system with kernel version 4.13.12. Make sure nouveau is not loaded.