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Topics related to Linux and other Unix-like operating systems (e.g. BSDs) on ThinkPads, a series of laptops formerly manufactured by IBM, and now by Lenovo.

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I am gathering information about possibility of fan control through thinkpad_acpi kernel module on different Thinkpads, to compile a list accesible for the community. Existing resources (like https://...
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In trying to figure out why my laptop was losing so much battery charge when closed, I'm seeing logs that suggest it's not staying in suspended state at all. I'm looking for help diagnosing why this ...
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I'm trying to run FreeBSD on a ThinkPad E590 (daily driver currently running Void Linux). After installing FreeBSD some devices appear to be missing drivers/firmware and the laptop fans run loudly ...
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I have a Lenovo ThinkPad T14 gen1 for more than a year now and I run it with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Since that I have the problem with the trackpoint, that during usage it stops working randomly. I still ...
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I have ThinkPad 14s gen 6 with Qualcomm® Wi-Fi® 7 NCM825, 802.11be 2x2 + BT5.3. In after last boot my system lost ability to register any wifi device. I think it can correlate to recent change in arch ...
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I have a Lenovo Thinkpad E15 Gen2 with a Goodix fingerprint reader and I'm trying to make it work for login on Arch Linux. I've installed fingerprint-gui but it's not recognized by it and I found this ...
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I've got a used Lenovo ThinkPad T480 and it has a slot for a sim behind the external battery. I use artix-linux and I have installed networkmanager-openrc. According to Arch Wiki for ThinkPad's mobile ...
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This was run while unplugged ➜ ~ upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/line_power_AC native-path: AC power supply: yes updated: Sa 10 Mai 2025 11:06:43 CEST (...
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I have a "ThinkPad Universal USB-C Dock" (Link to German Lenovo page) that works reasonably well with a DELL 5560: Monitors via Displayport, Ethernet, USB, fwupd all work. The DELL is ...
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I have Debian 12 (updated to 6.1.128-1) running on a Thankpad X1 laptop (kernel 6.1.0-31-amd64) that stopped turning on after routine system updates (apt-get upgrade) on 2025.02.09. Boot messages ...
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My laptop had always had some issues related to the NVidia dGPU the NVidia RTX A500. Basically, I tried plenty different distributions, they all had either artefacts, or freezes, or both. Except for ...
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I've just installed Debian 12 on my ThinkPad E16 Gen 2, and installed using GNOME. The touchpad doesn't work and it seems that the kernel doesn't register the hardware. This is the xinput list output: ...
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I observed that when put into standby mode, my computer (Thinkpad T14 Gen 5 with an Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 5 125U, running Fedora 40, kernel-6.10.11) still gets very warm and drains its battery, ...
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I have a ThinkPad T480 running Fedora Linux 40 (Workstation). It works fine, but sometimes randomly during boot after entering disk encryption password the Lenovo and Fedora logo with a spinner ...
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I've just installed Pop OS as a dual boot on a new Thinkpad E14 Gen 6, running an AMD Ryzen 5 7535 CPU. I've got a problem though: the inbuilt laptop microphone is not being detected in the sound ...
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