Dell Inspiron 3537

= Hardware =

= Drivers =

Graphics Drivers
The Inspiron 3537 comes with an integrated Intel graphics chip and dedicated AMD Radeon graphics card. It is possible to use hybrid switchable graphics with the use of PRIME.

For PRIME to work correctly, it is advised to compile both drivers intel and radeon with DRI3 enabled.

Currently the Intel driver requires a patch to enable DRI3 as the ebuild ships with --disable-dri3 due to users experiencing crashes. Instead of using a patch, it is recommended to use the x11 portage overlay, considering you have layman installed, this is done by running:

And then installing the drivers:

Configuring Xorg
A barebone config is needed:

Hybrid Graphics
To offload applications to the dedicated GPU, add the PRIME prefix before the command:

Ethernet
To enable Ethernet support make sure you have the following kernel options enabled:

Wireless
Consult the Wifi wiki page for enabling WiFi support in the kernel.

The Broadcom Wireless cards requires proprietary firmware and drivers which you can get by installing the broadcom-sta package

After that you can use a network manager like WPA Supplicant.

Touchpad
First, install the synaptics driver

After that, create a configuration file