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Laptop Specifications

Type	Device	Model	ID	Works?	Note
Processor	Intel® Core™ M	5Y70, 5Y71, (Broadwell)	n/a	Yes
Graphics	Intel® HD Graphics	5300	8086:161e	Yes
Display	13.3" QHD+ LED (3200x1800)	LTN133YL03-L01	n/a	Yes
Audio	Intel HDA	Broadwell-U Audio Controller	8086:160c	Yes	Needs snd_hda_intel
Network	Wireless	Broadcom BCM4352	14e4:43b1	Yes	Supported by the wl driver only
Network	Bluetooth	Lenovo NGFF (4352 / 20702)	0489:e07a	Yes	See Broadcom Bluetooth
Input	Camera	Lenovo EasyCamera	5986:0535	?	Not yet tested
Input	Card Reader			?	Not yet tested
Input	Touchscreen			Yes
Input	Touchpad			Yes

Installation

Note
I am using SystemRescueCd-x86-4.5.2 as an installation medium, with the 'alternative' (newer) kernel option, installing an EFI stub kernel instead of a boot loader, and using systemd. YMMV with other choices.

Booting

To get to the boot/BIOS menu, there is no key combination. Press the recessed button next to the power button instead; unintuitively called the "novo" button by the documentation. You also might have to disable FastStartup and Secure Boot temporarily in the bios menu to get it to boot from your USB device.

HiDPI

The high DPI means that you have to tweak some settings or suffer through tiny nigh-unreadable text while installing. There are larger fonts available at /usr/share/consolefonts/, which can be used by running e.g:

user $setfont ter-128b

Later on when you get X11 running, it might think your screen is a lot larger then it really is, defaulting to 96 DPI. Setting the window size manually fixes this.

You generally want a DPI double or 50% larger than 96, as it makes bitmap GUI elements scale better. Still, you need software which takes the DPI into account - the default xterm XLFD font, for example, will still look tiny until you replace it with a non-bitmap font.

FILE /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-monitor.conf

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "<default monitor>"
    # We want a DPI of 192, i.e. half the size of what x11 thinks our screen is (846mm x 476mm).
    DisplaySize 423 238
EndSection

Wireless

The only driver available that supports the card is the proprietary wl driver, available by installing net-wireless/broadcom-sta. If you don't have this on your installation drive, you might need to use an external USB NIC.

Configuration

FILE /etc/portage/make.conf

CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native"
CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes avx avx2 fma3 mmx mmxext popcnt sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3"
VIDEO_CARDS="intel i965"
INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics"

Kernel

KERNEL Audio

Device Drivers  --->
   Sound card support  --->
      Advanced Linux Sound Architecture  --->
         [*] PCI sound devices  --->
         HD-Audio  --->
             <*> HD Audio PCI
             [*] Enable generic HD-audio codec parser

KERNEL Wifi

Processor type and features  --->
   Preemption Model (Voluntary kernel Preemption (Desktop))  --->
Networking support  --->
   Wireless  --->
      <*> cfg80211 - wireless configuration API
      <*>   cfg80211 wireless extensions compatibility
      < > Generic IEEE 802.11 netowkring Stack (mac80211)
   <*> RF switch subsystem support

KERNEL Inputs

Processor type and features  --->
   [*] Intel Low Power Subsystem Support
Device Drivers  --->
   Input device support  --->
      <*> Mouse interface
      <*> Event interface
      [*] Keyboards  --->
          <*> AT keyboard
   I2C support  --->
      [*] Autoselect pertinent helper modules
      I2C Hardware Bus support  --->
          <*> Synopsys DesignWare Platform
   HID support  --->
      [*] /dev/hidraw raw HID device support
      [*] Generic HID driver
      Special HID drivers  --->
          <*> HID multitouch panels
          <*> Synaptics RMI4 device support
      I2C HID support  --->
          <*> HID over I2C transport layer

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