HP Pavilion 13-a252ur
| Device | Working |
| Graphics | Yes |
| Audio | No internal mic |
| Ethernet | Yes |
| Wireless | Yes |
| Bluetooth | Yes |
| Touchpad | Yes |
| Card reader | Yes |
| Webcam | Yes |
Hardware Information:
- Intel Core i5-5200U (Broadwell)
- 8GB RAM (Up to 16GB)
- Intel HD Graphics 5500
- 128GB SSD
- 1366x768 HD Display
- Touch screen
- Tablet mode
- Dual Speakers
- 2 USB 3.0, single USB 2, HDMI port
- Broadcom BCM43142 ( WiFi + Bluetooth )
Installation
You have to disable Secure Boot. repeatedly press F10 during boot to bring up the BIOS setup, navigate to the boot section and disable Secure Boot.
To prevent the system from booting in Legacy mode, it is also recommended to disable CSM/Legacy mode.
WiFi
For WiFi driver install broadcom-wl-dkms package, or broadcom-wl if you use stock non lts kernel.
Bluetooth
For Bluetooth driver install bcm43142a0-firmwareAUR package.
Tablet mode
Keyboard disables and enables out of the box. However, for touchpad it is necessary to create udev rule:
/etc/udev/hwdb.d/90-custom-keys.hwdb
evdev:atkbd:dmi:* KEYBOARD_KEY_d7=!f22 KEYBOARD_KEY_d8=!f23
KDE Plasma
In KDE Plasma 5 it works out of the box.
Sway
Create ~/.config/sway/config.d/tablet_mode.conf file
~/.config/sway/config.d/tablet_mode.conf
# Tablet mode bindcode 200 input type:touchpad events enabled bindcode 201 input type:touchpad events disabled
In addition, (with and ) supports auto show/hide feature, and to enable it when using tablet mode, change the config to
Other Desktop Enviroments
Other DEs are either untested or does not support this feature.
Kernel parameters
For tablet mode to work correctly, add and
acpi_backlight=vendor
for better backlight manipulation.