Dell XPS 15 9570

• Year introduced: 2018

• CPU: Intel Core i9-8950HK @ 2.90GHz
• Ethernet: None
• Graphics:
  • Intel UHD Graphics 630 (Mobile)
  • NVIDIA GP107M GeForce GTX 1050Ti with 4GiB GDDR5
• Memory: 32GiB (2 x 16GiB 2666MHz DDR4 SODIMM)
• Screen: 5.6“ 4K Ultra HD (3840 x 2160) InfinityEdge Anti-Reflective Touch IPS100% AdobeRGB 400-Nits display
• Storage: 1TB Toshiba XG5 PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD
• Wireless: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac (Killer 1535 802.11ac 2x2 WiFi and Bluetooth 4.2)

Component		Status	Details
Graphics	Graphical sessions	✔
	Backlight (brightness) control	✘	ACPI method errors when hotkeys pressed
Input devices	Keyboard backlight	✔
	Touchpad	✔
	Touch screen		As of 2020/09/13, wulf@'s iichid(4) driver must be compiled and loaded.
	Trackpoint	N/A
Media keys	Brightness keys	✘
	Volume keys	✔
Network	Ethernet	N/A
	Wi-Fi	✘
Other	Battery	✔
	Bluetooth
	CD/DVD drive	N/A
	ExpressCard reader	N/A
	Fan	✔
	Fingerprint reader		HTMicroelectronics Goodix Fingerprint Device on USB (27c6:5395)
	PC card reader	N/A
	SD card reader	✘
	SIM card slot	N/A
	Smart card reader	N/A
	Suspend & resume
	Webcam	✔	CN0VGCNHLOG00899A3KCA00 IntegratedWebcamHD on USB (uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Integrated_Webcam_HD (0c45:671d))
Ports	DisplayPort	N/A
	FireWire	N/A
	HDMI
	Thunderbolt	✘
	USB	✔
	VGA	N/A
Sound	Headphone jack
	Microphone jack
	Speakers	✔
Last update: <<TIME»

• 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

• Fix LCD backlight control.
• Fix Thunderbird 3 hotplug.
• Fix ACPI suspend/resume.
• Port Linux/OpenBSD SD card reader driver to FreeBSD.

1. Reboot laptop.
2. Press <F12> before DELL splash screen appears.

The following assumes a GPT partition scheme with FreeBSD to be installed to a ZFS partition. BIOS/UEFI changes will make the stock Windows partition unbootable, but those changes can be reversed to boot Windows.

1. Shrink Windows partition(s) to make room for FreeBSD partitions.
2. Change the following settings in BIOS/UEFI Setup:

• acpidump.out.txt
• devinfo.out.txt
• dmesg.out.txt
• pciconf.out.txt

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