MSI Modern 15 - A11S

Hardware	PCI/USB ID	Working?
Touchpad	`04f3:30aa`	Yes
Keyboard		Yes
GPU	`8086:9a49`	Yes
Webcam	`5986:211c`	Yes
Bluetooth	`8087:0026`	Yes
SD-card reader	`10ec:525a`	Yes
Audio	`8086:a0c8`	Yes
Wireless	`8086:a0f0`	Yes
TPM		Yes

The information below is valid for models:

Modern 15 A11SB
Modern 15 A11M
Modern 15 A11SBL
Modern 15 A11ML
Modern 15 A11SBU
Modern 15 A11MU

Installation

Secure Boot needs to be disabled at first startup and after UEFI updates. Append intel-ucode and intel-media-driver to pacstrap.

Firmware

fwupd supports listing :

Elan Touchpad
NVM Express Solid State Drive (Kingston)
UEFI

Install for module . See Mkinitcpio#Possibly missing firmware for module XXXX.

Secure Boot functions well with custom keys, make sure to disable automatic reverting to factory keys.

Intel ME firmware needs to be updated from Windows, e.g. from Windows PE with the files provided by MSI on their BIOS Update page.

Sound

This laptop requires ALSA firmware (i.e. installing ) in order for the soundcard to work.

Accessibility

The BIOS interface is keyboard driven and does not require the use of a mouse.

Thermals

Fan control can be tuned by installing isw^AUR.

Configuration entry for Modern 15 A11M is missing, and needs to be added manually (PR: https://github.com/YoyPa/isw/issues/152):

/etc/isw.conf

[1552EMS1]
# A11M-217XIT
# 1552EMS1.1071023
address_profile = MSI_ADDRESS_DEFAULT
fan_mode = 140
# CPU
cpu_temp_0 = 50
cpu_temp_1 = 58
cpu_temp_2 = 65
cpu_temp_3 = 70
cpu_temp_4 = 90
cpu_temp_5 = 95
cpu_fan_speed_0 = 45
cpu_fan_speed_1 = 58
cpu_fan_speed_2 = 65
cpu_fan_speed_3 = 72
cpu_fan_speed_4 = 80
cpu_fan_speed_5 = 85
cpu_fan_speed_6 = 100
# GPU
gpu_temp_0 = 50
gpu_temp_1 = 60
gpu_temp_2 = 70
gpu_temp_3 = 82
gpu_temp_4 = 90
gpu_temp_5 = 93
gpu_fan_speed_0 = 0
gpu_fan_speed_1 = 50
gpu_fan_speed_2 = 65
gpu_fan_speed_3 = 72
gpu_fan_speed_4 = 80
gpu_fan_speed_5 = 85
gpu_fan_speed_6 = 100

To activate a personalized profile, you need to set the value to . You can set your profile adding to autostart the following two lines (PR: https://github.com/YoyPa/isw/issues/152):

# isw -w 1552EMS1
# isw -s 0xd4 64

To autostart you can also use the provided , but you will need use a drop-in snippet:

Then start/enable .

Keyboard

Toggle key always on with . The keyboard backlight works properly. The LEDs on the (Audio mute) and (Microphone status) keys do not work.