Lenovo to Certify ThinkPad and ThinkStation Workstation Portfolio for Linux

Re:Lenovo to Certify ThinkPad and ThinkStation Workstation P... by fluffything on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @01:24PM (#23406013)

Maybe the X1 Carbon 7th gen has a bit better support than the Yoga I have, but that gives me hopes that everything will work one day (although some user below has your exact same Laptop and they complain below that Audio does not work for them, which is the same problem I used to have with Ubuntu, so maybe this is a Debian/Ubuntu issue that others distros do not have).

FWIW, I've also used fwup and it has worked perfectly, so that's something that Lenovo did get right.

> I think Linux support of new hardware is always going to be shaky unless we can get vendors to care and support it themselves.

This is what I actually expect from a Ubuntu-certified laptop. That the manufacturer makes sure that the Laptop actually works with Ubuntu.

That's the same bar I have for Apple and windows laptops.

Otherwise they should just call them "Linux tinkerer friendly" or similar.

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Re:Lenovo to Certify ThinkPad and ThinkStation Workstation P... by dahfizz on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @06:33PM (#23409714)

The sound card just needs the up to date SOF driver. It works out of the box on Fedora 32.

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Re:Lenovo to Certify ThinkPad and ThinkStation Workstation P... by fluffything on Thursday June 04, 2020 @03:18AM (#23413613)

Fedora 32 was released in April 21 2020. This laptop was released in october 2019.

Waiting 7 months to be able to use sound was not an option for me. I needed to use the microphone and headphones for work.

Luckily I managed to get Arch set up, which came with a recent enough kernel and SOF driver. As of June 2020, Ubuntu still does not.

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