Made the critical thunderbolt and firmware update before installing. can’t seem to get keyboard backlight working and have not attempted fingerprint scanner. everything else, after enabling virtualization in BIOS, went smoothly on a fresh 4.1.2 install
Do I understand correctly that this thread concluded that T480 i7-8650U meets the community list requirements? i.e. having the 2 positive R4.1 reports listed above (aronowski & renehoj).
However, I see it is not on the list. Was it added but later removed for being outdated as suggested in another thread?
Also, thank you @Sven for your fantastic work! Very very helpful!
First time using the forum: if I broke any etiquette, my apology and please let me know how I can improve!
Arrived faster than expected. Here’s the HCL. Let me know if there are any further tests / info that may be helpful.
Remarks
Installation
Easy. No comments. 4.1.2
Works
Suspend. Tested 10 times (plugged in / battery power, lid close / using menu). In all cases wakes up in about 10 seconds. If suspended from menu (which suspends to RAM) it sometimes takes further 10 seconds for log in.
I didn’t really notice a difference between the i5 and i7.
Keep in mind, there are different versions of the i5, and you don’t want the i5 with the 7th gen CPU (7200U and 7300U). The 7th gen CPU only has 2 core, where the 8th gen version has 4 cores.
Thank you! May I submit an updated HCL? Everything works out of the box as before, but I increased the memory to 64GB, which I thought may be of interest, since few laptops seem capable of this.
this device offers some sweet stuff btw: i put an NVME SSD where the LTE modem should be (so two NVME slots instead of one) and I installed 32+16GB of RAM although the intel ark processor specs state that this machine could only handle 32GB in total - noticed that this was already part of an updates HCL. the gift that keeps on giving. (but again make sure that you update the firmware of the thunderbolt controller else the device might go bricked - see lenovo site)
Did anyone by any chance test this laptop with a PCIe Gen4 NVMe drive? I’m wondering whether it will have issues with the M.2 SSD adapter, and whether this will affect Qubes performance.
Unable to install qubes 4.2 using “legacy mode” bios. Only uefi install mode succeed. Lenovo EFI boot requires /boot/efi/EFI/qubes → /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT; grubx64.efi → BOOTX64.efi, grub.cfg → BOOTX64.cfg and xen-$latest.efi → xen.efi (credits: @Quser59). Possibly every kernel and xen update needs such a change in /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/. Finally able to upgrade firmware using qubes-fwupdmgr. After executing the qubes-fwupdmgr update there is new fwupdx64.efi file and fw directory put in /boot/efi/EFI/qubes directory but reboot initially resulted in nothing, without firmware update.In the end firmware update succeed. Needed to copy fwupdx64.efi file and fw directory to /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT and unlock boot order settings in bios. External monitor connected with displayport works fine. Networking: without problems. Windows 10 hvm (without qwt), without problems. U2F proxy, SplitGPG, SplitSSH without issues. Using ACR-39T-A1 reader for digital signature works.