MSI Modern 15 A11M

Hardware	PCI/USB ID	Working?
Touchpad	`04f3:30aa`	Yes
Keyboard		Yes
GPU	`8086:9a49`	Yes
Webcam		Yes
Bluetooth		Yes
SD-card reader	`10ec:525a`	Yes
Audio	`8086:a0c8`	Yes
Wireless	`8086:a0f0`	Yes
Fan speed control		Yes
TPM		Untested

Installation

SecureBoot needs to be disabled at first startup. Append intel-ucode and intel-media-driver to pacstrap.

Firmware

fwupd supports:

Elan Touchpad
NVM Express Solid State Drive (Kingston)
UEFI

Sound

This laptop requires firmware in order for the soundcard to work. See Advanced Linux Sound Architecture#ALSA firmware.

Thermals

Fan control can be tuned by https://github.com/YoyPa/isw. 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

Keyboard

Toggle Fn key always on with Fn+Escape. The keyboard backlight works properly. The LEDs on the F1 (Audio mute) and F5 (Microphone status) keys do not work.

Bluetooth

tested working with use PipeWire as a PulseAudio/JACK replacement