Laptop: Acer Aspire A514-51G

[Disil]

Releases

Linux Mint 21.x

Compatibility

Works fine with some minor problems

Description of the hardware

Almost everything work out of the box, except these issues, no matter how I tried to fix them:

1. Freeze after waking up from suspend (NVIDIA gpu has fallen off the bus)
2. If using kernel 6.0+, the NVIDIA GPU won't load at boot, resulting in freeze black screen.

Inxi output:

System:
  Host: A514-51G Kernel: 5.15.0-134-generic x86_64 bits: 64
    Desktop: Cinnamon 6.0.4 Distro: Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Aspire A514-51G v: V1.04
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: WL model: Raichu_WL v: V1.04 serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: Insyde v: 1.04 date: 01/15/2019
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 14.2 Wh (33.6%) condition: 42.3/62.2 Wh (68.1%)
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: Intel Core i5-8265U bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache:
    L2: 1024 KiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1154 min/max: 400/3900 cores: 1: 683 2: 700 3: 700
    4: 700 5: 719 6: 1086 7: 2273 8: 2378
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel WhiskeyLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics 620] driver: i915 v: kernel
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP108M [GeForce MX230] driver: nvidia v: 550.120
  Device-3: Quanta HD User Facing type: USB driver: uvcvideo
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting,nvidia unloaded: fbdev,nouveau,vesa gpu: i915
    resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 620 (WHL GT2)
    v: 4.6 Mesa 23.2.1-1ubuntu3.1~22.04.3
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Point-LP High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-134-generic running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
    driver: ath10k_pci
  IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: f8:a2:d6:72:d6:b9
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    driver: r8169
  IF: enp4s0 state: down mac: 30:65:ec:c6:25:90
  IF-ID-1: vmnet1 state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A
    mac: 00:50:56:c0:00:01
  IF-ID-2: vmnet8 state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A
    mac: 00:50:56:c0:00:08
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Lite-On Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 Bluetooth type: USB
    driver: btusb
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down
    bt-service: enabled,running rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes
    address: F8:A2:D6:72:D6:BA
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.26 TiB used: 120.88 GiB (9.4%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 model: JOINT SSD Pcie Nvme N2000 128GB
    size: 119.24 GiB
  ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD10SPZX-21Z10T0
    size: 931.51 GiB
  ID-3: /dev/sdb type: USB model: RX7 2.5 256GB size: 238.47 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 116.32 GiB used: 62.28 GiB (53.5%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 512 MiB used: 6.1 MiB (1.2%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 1.2 MiB (0.1%) file: /swapfile
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 58.0 C pch: 57.0 C mobo: 49.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 342 Uptime: 51m Memory: 11.54 GiB used: 4.72 GiB (41.0%)
  Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.13

Optional - Notes

Secure boot is disabled.

Avoid using kernel more than 5.15 so NVIDIA GPU works fine.