Dell Latitude 5495

The Dell Latitude 5495 is a 14" laptop with Ryzen Pro 2500U or 2700U processor.

= Hardware Status =

Extra hardware information
= Installation = EFI stub kernel will boot fine, so you do not need any separate boot loader like Grub or Syslinux.

After making hardware changes to the internal storage, such as replacing a SATA with M.2 NVMe drive or vice versa, the BIOS/UEFI will get confused on the first boot and mess up the boot order. Subsequent boots will be stable.

This is a common problem with Dell Laptops, cf. , step 11.

= Configuration details =

Compiler flags
See Safe CFLAGS

Required packages

 * for the Wi-fi and graphics firmware
 * , for the smartcard reader

= Troubleshooting =

Suspend
After suspend to disk (hibernate), the computer will reboot instead of powering off. (Tested with BIOS version 1.2.3)

Solution: Set hibernation mode to "shutdown" instead of "platform".

For automating this during boot, see /etc/local.d.

Touchpad
The Alps touchpad is recognized as PS/2 mouse and will provide only some functions. This is because the device ID (044e:1212) is unknown to the kernel's and  and needs to be hooked up.

If someone wants to try adding these, please report back here what happens.

As a workaround, you can use button scrolling, pressing both buttons on the touchpad will cause finger movement to scroll: