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Alienware 17 R 4 (Dell)
* Year introduced: 2020
Hardware
- CPU: Intel Core i7-7820HK 2.90GHz
- Ethernet: Killer E2500 Gigabit Ethernet
- Graphics: integrated: Intel HD Graphics 630 + Nvidia GFX
- Memory: 32GB
- Screen: 17.3“ QHD (2560×1440) 120Hz
- Storage: HGST HTS721010A9E630 JB0OA3W0 1TB + 2 THNSN51T02DUK NVMe TOSHIBA 1024GB Remark: the two SSD disks are not detected ⁻ see PR 270409
- Wireless: Killer Wireless n/a/ac 1535 (Qualcomm)
Support overview
| Component | Status | Details | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Graphics | Graphical sessions | ✔ | With Nvidia driver |
| Backlight (brightness) control |  | ||
| Input devices | Keyboard backlight |
| Touchpad | ✔ | |
| Touch screen | ||
| Trackpoint | ✔ |
| Media keys | Brightness keys | ||
| Volume keys | |||
| Network | Ethernet | ✔ | |
| Wi-Fi | ✘ | ||
| Other | Battery | | |
| Bluetooth | |||
| CD/DVD drive | |||
| ExpressCard reader | |||
| Fan | |||
| Fingerprint reader | |||
| PC card reader | |||
| SD card reader | |||
| SIM card slot | |||
| Smart card reader | |||
| Suspend & resume | | ||
| Webcam | |||
| Ports | DisplayPort | ||
| FireWire | |||
| HDMI | |||
| Thunderbolt | |||
| USB | ✔ | ||
| VGA | |||
| Sound | Headphone jack | ||
| Microphone jack | |||
| Speakers | ✔ | ||
| Last update: 2023-03-23 17:15:08+0100 | |||
- Legend
- ✔ OK
Somewhat OK: requires additional tweaking or works worse than expected- Present but status unknown or untested
- ✘ Does not work
- nothing Not sure if present
Files
Remark: dmesg_OOTB.out.txt is dmesg “out of the box”, UEFI, and the hard disk in mode “RAID on”, Windows 10 being installed on one SSD disk, but not usable by FreeBSD; dmesg_legacy.out.txt is dmesg after configuration, legacy BIOS, FreeBSD being installed on the hard disk, set in mode AHCI in order to be bootable.