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 installed 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

= 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  and needs to be hooked up.

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