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## IBM/Lenovo

### ThinkPad

#### 300 series

Model version | Arch Linux install CD version | Hardware support | Remarks
--- | --- | --- | ---
Video | Sound | Ethernet | Wireless | Bluetooth | Power management | Modem | Other
IBM ThinkPad 380ED | NA | NA | NA | NA | No | NA | NA | NA |  |

#### Edge series

Model version | Arch Linux install CD version | Hardware support | Remarks
--- | --- | --- | ---
Video | Sound | Ethernet | Wireless | Bluetooth | Power management | Modem | Other
Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E330 | NA | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | NA |  |
Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E335 | NA | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | NA | Yes | NA |  |
Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E420s | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | NA | NA | SDcard (Yes), Webcam (Yes), Trackpoint (No) |  |
Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E430 | Yes | Yes | Yes* | Yes* | Not tested | Yes | NA | NA | SD card (yes) |  |
Lenovo Thinkpad Edge E455 | 2015.04.01 | Yes* | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | NA |  |
Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E530 | Yes | Yes | Yes* | Yes* | Yes | Yes | NA | NA | SD card (yes), Finger Print (not tested) |  |
Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E540 | 2015.08.01 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes* | NA | SD card (yes), Finger Print (yes), touch pad and trackpoint (yes), Webcam (yes) |  |

#### L series

Model version | Arch Linux install CD version | Hardware support | Remarks
--- | --- | --- | ---
Video | Sound | Ethernet | Wireless | Bluetooth | Power management | Modem | Other
Lenovo ThinkPad L420 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not tested | Yes | NA |  |
Lenovo ThinkPad L430 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | NA | Trackpoint* |
Lenovo ThinkPad L530 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | NA | Trackpoint*, Fingerprint reader |

#### R series

Model version | Arch Linux install CD version | Hardware support | Remarks
--- | --- | --- | ---
Video | Sound | Ethernet | Wireless | Bluetooth | Power management | Modem | Other
IBM ThinkPad R50 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | NA | Yes | Yes | Infrared* |  |
IBM ThinkPad R52 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | NA | Yes | Yes | Infrared* |  |
Lenovo ThinkPad R60 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | NA | NA |  |

#### T series

Model version | Arch Linux install CD version | Hardware support | Remarks
--- | --- | --- | ---
Video | Sound | Ethernet | Wireless | Bluetooth | Power management | Modem | Other
IBM ThinkPad T21 | Yes* | Yes | Yes | NA | NA | Yes* | NA | NA | See below |
IBM ThinkPad T23 | Yes | Yes | Yes | NA | NA | Yes | NA | NA |  |
IBM ThinkPad T42 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | NA | Yes | NA | NA |  |
IBM ThinkPad T60 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | NA |  |
IBM ThinkPad T60p | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | NA | ThinkFinger |
IBM ThinkPad T61 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | NA |  |  |
IBM ThinkPad T61p | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | NA |  |  |
Lenovo ThinkPad T400 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | NA | NA |  |
Lenovo ThinkPad T400s | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | NA | NA |  |
Lenovo ThinkPad T410 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | NA | NA |  |
Lenovo ThinkPad T420 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | NA | Card reader tested, no Fingerprint scanner |
Lenovo ThinkPad T420s | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | NA | NA | Card Reader |
Lenovo ThinkPad T430 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes* | Yes* | Not tested |  |
Lenovo ThinkPad T440p | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes* | NA | NA | Card Reader | See below
Lenovo ThinkPad T440s | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes* | ? | Yes | ? |  | See wiki page for more details about wireless
Lenovo ThinkPad T450s | 2015.10.01 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | NA | SD Card reader; fingerprint scanner |
Lenovo ThinkPad T500 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | NA | NA |  |
Lenovo ThinkPad T520 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | NA | NA |  |
Lenovo ThinkPad T530 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | NA |  |
Lenovo ThinkPad T550 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | NA | DisplayPort |

#### W series

Model version | Arch Linux install CD version | Hardware support | Remarks
--- | --- | --- | ---
Video | Sound | Ethernet | Wireless | Bluetooth | Power management | Modem | Other
Lenovo ThinkPad W550s | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | NA | SD card (Not tested), Webcam (Yes), Fingeprint Reader (Yes) |

#### X series

Model version | Arch Linux install CD version | Hardware support | Remarks
--- | --- | --- | ---
Video | Sound | Ethernet | Wireless | Bluetooth | Power management | Modem | Other
IBM ThinkPad X23 | Yes | Yes | Yes | NA | NA | Yes | NA | NA |  |
IBM ThinkPad X60s | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | NA | NA |  |
Lenovo ThinkPad X61s | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | NA | SD slot |
Lenovo ThinkPad X100e | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not tested | NA | SD card (Yes), Webcam (Yes) |
Lenovo ThinkPad X200 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | NA | NA |  |
Lenovo ThinkPad X201 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not tested |  |
Lenovo ThinkPad X220 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not tested | Yes | NA | SD card (Yes), Webcam (Yes) |
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon | NA | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Proprietary/nonfree | Yes | NA |  |
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (Gen 2) | NA | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | NA |  |
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (Gen 3) | NA | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | NA |  |
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (Gen 4) | NA | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | NA |  |

#### P series

Model version | Arch Linux install CD version | Hardware support | Remarks
--- | --- | --- | ---
Video | Sound | Ethernet | Wireless | Bluetooth | Power management | Modem | Other
Lenovo ThinkPad P50 | 2016.04 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Suspend working, hibernate not tested | NA | SD card (Yes), Webcam (Yes), Fingerprint Reader (No), | Wifi requires Kernel 4.3.3+ |
Lenovo ThinkPad P70 | 2016.04 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Suspend working, hibernate not tested | NA | SD card (Yes), Webcam (Yes), Fingerprint Reader (No), | Wifi requires Kernel 4.3.3+ |

## Lenovo

### IdeaPad

Model version | Arch Linux install CD version | Hardware support | Remarks
--- | --- | --- | ---
Video | Sound | Ethernet | Wireless | Bluetooth | Power management | Modem | Other
Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 10 | Yes | Yes* | Yes | NA | Yes | Yes | Yes | NA | Touchscreen* |
Lenovo IdeaPad S10 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | NA | NA |  |
Lenovo IdeaPad S400 Touch | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not tested | NA |  |
Lenovo IdeaPad U430p | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not tested | NA |  |
Lenovo IdeaPad Y700 | 2015.12.01 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not tested | NA |  | Trackpad requires pata_legacy to be blacklisted

### B series

Model version | Arch Linux install CD version | Hardware support | Remarks
--- | --- | --- | ---
Video | Sound | Ethernet | Wireless | Bluetooth | Power management | Modem | Other
Lenovo B50 | NA | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not tested | Not tested | Not tested |  |
Lenovo B50-70 | Yes | Yes* | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not tested | NA | See below* |
Lenovo B450 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | NA | Not tested | NA |  |

### K series

Model version | Arch Linux install CD version | Hardware support | Remarks
--- | --- | --- | ---
Video | Sound | Ethernet | Wireless | Bluetooth | Power management | Modem | Other
Lenovo K450e | NA | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not tested | Yes | Not tested |  |

### N series

Model version | Arch Linux install CD version | Hardware support | Remarks
--- | --- | --- | ---
Video | Sound | Ethernet | Wireless | Bluetooth | Power management | Modem | Other
Lenovo N200 (3000) | Yes | Yes* | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes* | NA | NA | See below |

### S series

Model version | Arch Linux install CD version | Hardware support | Remarks
--- | --- | --- | ---
Video | Sound | Ethernet | Wireless | Bluetooth | Power management | Modem | Other
Lenovo S21e-20 | 2015.07.01 | Yes | Yes | NA | Yes* | ? | Yes | NA | SD Card (Yes), USB 3.0 (Yes), HDMI Out (?), Touchpad (Yes*) |

### U Series

Model version | Arch Linux install CD version | Hardware support | Remarks
--- | --- | --- | ---
Video | Sound | Ethernet | Wireless | Bluetooth | Power management | Modem | Other
Lenovo U31-70 | 2015.10.01 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes* | Yes | Yes | NA | SD Card (Yes), USB 3.0 (Yes), HDMI Out (Yes), Touchpad (Yes), Webcam (Yes) |

## Special Notes (*):

The factual accuracy of this article or section is disputed.

Reason: Lots of vague or unproven bugs/workarounds, poor writing (Discuss in Talk:Laptop/Lenovo#)

### Lenovo U31-70

Wireless needs linux >= 4.3 and latest linux-firmware, both packages are currently in testing. Copy one of the firmware blobs `eeprom_ar6320_2p1_NFA345i.bin` or `eeprom_ar6320_2p1_NFA345i_highTX.bin` from the windows driver to `/usr/lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw2.1/board-pci-168c:0041:17aa:3545.bin`.

Wireless with firmware blobs from windows driver may no longer work on linux >= 4.4. Download firmware blob https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/blob/f428f53b36b144971c9c4c3d2ebd5fa8cae86c89/QCA6174/hw2.1/board-2.bin and copy it to `/usr/lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw2.1/board-2.bin`. Tested with linux 4.4.5-1 and linux-firmware 20160113.40e9ae8-1nu

With packages linux 4.6.1-2 and linux-firmware 20160516.80d463b-1 being in stable, wireless works without any additional steps needed.

### Lenovo B50-70

- UEFI:
  - to be able to disable Secure Boot (necessary for dual boot, not needed for Linux only), you have to switch from "UEFI first" to "UEFI only" (or something like this) in UEFI setup menu; the Secure Boot option appears then on the Security tab
  - after UEFI update having Linux and Windows installed, the Linux bootloader ceased to be the default one, UEFI started to load Windows by default and it was impossible to select the Linux one in the UEFI boot menu and in the UEFI setup - reinstalling the bootloader helped; having no access to a boot media that supports UEFI, a solution might be also replacing the Windows EFI bootloader file with a Linux one temporalily, in order to be able to boot Linux from HDD
  - for the UEFI update, a Windows OS is needed
- Touchpad:
  - Synaptics - works after installing Synaptics drivers from repo, possible to change behaviour (like reaction for double tap) according to your wish
- Video:
  - in laptops with dual video card (Intel and ATI) - detects both, Intel is active as a default, not checked if it's possible at all to switch between them

#### Operation with a HDD caddy

When you install an SSD in the place of the plate HDD drive and you want to have your HDD still inside the laptop, it is possible to install it in the place of the optical drive in a special "HDD caddy". The optical drive is of 9 mm height, but a 9,5 mm caddy (ultra slim) fits in the slot. A caddy with a SATA interface is needed. It is difficult to separate the front bezel from the original optical drive (and opening its case does not help, but brings a danger of making a mess in the opening mechanism; the only option is just to pull the bezel using a bit of force, but you risk breaking the latches).

While the HDD installed instead of the optical drive operates flawlessly in Windows, it wasn't going to work out of the box in Linux, at least in one case. The kernel tries to establish a connection with the disk, but fails to do it (SATA link down entry in /var/log/messages). The solution is to force a 1.5 Gbps transfer speed (instead of 6 Gbps) by adding a libata.force= kernel parameter. See [1] for details.

### Lenovo K450e

After installing Arch Linux and booting, a single beep may be heard. To disable this beep, press F1 during startup, then change Boot Priority to 'UEFI First', as well as enabling 'CSM'.

### ThinkPad X1 Carbon 3rd

- http://natalian.org/archives/2015/02/18/Archlinux_on_a_Lenovo_X1C3/

### IBM ThinkPad T21

- Video:
  - Incapable of running DRM at 1024x768 and 24-bit color due to 8 MB VRAM. Must drop color or resolution to get DRM.
  - For whatever reason, external VGA output (for an external monitor) was disabled. This was fixed by doing this:
    - `echo 1 > /proc/acpi/video/VID/DOS`

### Lenovo 3000 N200

- Sound:
  - You may have to append `options snd_hda_intel model=lenovo` to `/etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf` for sound to work.

### IBM ThinkPad R52

- USB network tethering
  - Inbound networking via interface usb0 works.

### Lenovo ThinkPad T430

- The volume mute works fine, but the led is simply toggled by the press. No relation to the actual mute state. (aka. if you start with the system muted and the led off, pressing it will unmute the volume, but turn on the led).
- The microphone mute button works, but the led stays lit permanently.
- Bluetooth (0a5c:21e6 Broadcom Corp. BCM20702 Bluetooth 4.0 [ThinkPad]) appears to be functional, even during standby or hibernation.

### Lenovo ThinkPad T440p

- ClickPad: the whole trackpad clicks, and disabling the trackpad using older versions of synclient makes the trackpoint essentially unusable. This has been resolved in newer versions of xf86-input-synaptics.
  - See this article and previous version.
  - Install xf86-input-synlx40AUR[broken link: archived in aur-mirror] and xf86-input-mtrackAUR for alternative drivers.
- Audio:
  - HDMI audio is the default audio output device. Consult the ALSA page for details on changing the default.
  - As the X100e/Mini10, it's possible to mute the headset and speaker outputs separately to the master. Muting the speaker output improves bass output on the headset port.
  - If the system fails to wake from sleep, it can lose sync with the internal audio card and speakers/headphones may fail to work. In this case, put the system to sleep, and wake it again and audio functionality should be restored.
- The fingerprint sensor is a Validity VFS5011, which requires a patched fprintd and is apparently highly unreliable.
- thinkpad_acpi:
  - Controlling the Fn-Lock, Mute, Mic Mute or 'glowing I' LEDs is apparently not possible.
  - fan control does not seem to work.
- Graphics and Video:
  - With the integrated GPU, xrandr can crash while attaching or detaching displays connected via the dock.
  - The built-in miniDisplayPort will sometimes spew I²C issues into the kernel log.
  - Hardware video acceleration is highly recommended as it performs significantly better than CPU decoding of large media files.
  - The BIOS should not be upgraded past version 1.14, as newer BIOSes cause memory corruption when used with Bumblebee. See Bumblebee GitHub
- Connectivity:
  - Bluetooth is extremely fragile. The controller works fine most of the time, but can cause the system to wedge totally on sleep/wake cycles, especially if a connection was active at sleep. Disable the controller using `bluetoothctl` before sleeping.

### Lenovo S21e-20

- Tested with broadcom-wl-dkmsAUR 802.11 wireless driver
- Synaptics touchpad required 3 patches to linux:drivers/hid/hid-rmi.c on 2015-07-26 (bug report, kernel recipe patch). The current 4.3 kernel includes these patches. You will also need to install the xf86_64-input-synaptics package([2])

#### tpacpi-bat

There is an issue with tpacpi-bat not reporting the right value for the stop threshold. This seems to be related to a buggy BIOS and can not be fixed application wise.

See https://github.com/teleshoes/tpacpi-bat/issues/44

#### ThinkPad Edge E420s Delay with Space Bar

Solution: Update BIOS (at least 1.08).

## See also

- Think wiki

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