modelo: Alienware M11x R1(id del modelo: 524)
subtipo (computadores portátiles, netbook, tarjeta madre, tablet):
computadores portátiles
arquitectura:
x86-64/amd64
¿tiene un firmware boot (BIOS, UEFI,..) libre?
no
¿puede ser instalado un sistema libre?
si
¿el dispositivo evita la instalación de tarjetas inalámbricas no aprobadas por el distribuidor?
no
año de comercialización:
2010
compatibilidad con software libre:
B-oro 
probado con:
gNewSense 3.0 Parkes
Parabola GNU/Linux
Trisquel 4.5 Slaine
probado con el siguiente kernel libre:
3.2.6-1-rt
3.7.1
3.9.4
modelo de tarjeta de video:
nVidia GeForce GT335m + GMA 4500MHD (funciona con aceleración 3D)
modelo de tarjeta de red inalámbrica:
Broadcom 4353 802.11 ABGN (funciona)
modelo de cámara web:
unknown (funciona)
Descripción:
GPU offloading to the nVidia GPU works with bbswitch and bumblebee with the free nouveau driver. Additionally, you can choose to use the nVidia GPU at all times in the BIOS, however, it has a huge impact on battery life. Bumblebee and bbswitch are suggested in order to get the full battery life, otherwise the nVidia GPU is always running and the fan kicks on more than it's supposed to (it barely ever kicks on to begin with).
Stock wi-fi card used to require non-free firmware to operate. Progress has been made and the Broadcom 4353 802.11 ABGN is now operational under brcm80211(brcmsmac on some debian-based systems). Also the wireless card can be extracted and replaced.
Stock bluetooth card works perfectly without non-free firmware.
Changing the AlienFX keyboard backlighting does not work "Out of the box" on any distribution I know of, however a GPL'ed solution is available here https://code.google.com/p/pyalienfx/ from this gentleman. It is very straightforward to install and configure and I have encountered no trouble with it.
Thusfar, no free boot firmware is available for this machine.
Other than that, everything else works perfectly with a libre GNU/Linux distribution.
- CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo SU7300 1.3 GHz
- GPU: nVidia GeForce GT335m + GMA 4500MHD
- RAM: 8 GB DDR3-1066
- HDD: 120 GB Intel SSD
- Screen resolution: 1366x768
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