Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen 2 (Type 20TA) [Merged #1]

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layout:
  'hcl'
type:
  'notebook'
hvm:
  'yes'
iommu:
  'yes'
slat:
  'yes'
tpm:
  'unknown'
remap:
  'yes'
brand: |
  LENOVO
model: |
  20TA000DGE
bios: |
  R1EET54W(1.54 )
cpu: |
  11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1165G7 @ 2.80GHz
cpu-short: |
  FIXME
chipset: |
  Intel Corporation 11th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers [8086:9a14] (rev 01)
chipset-short: |
  FIXME
gpu: |
  Intel Corporation TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] [8086:9a49] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
gpu-short: |
  FIXME
network: |
  Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX201 (rev 20)
  Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15)
memory: |
  16082
scsi: |

usb: |
  3
versions:

- works:
    'FIXME:yes|no|partial'
  qubes: |
    R4.1
  xen: |
    4.14.5
  kernel: |
    6.0.12-1
  remark: |
    FIXME
  credit: |
    FIXAUTHOR
  link: |
    FIXLINK

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Remarks

Short:
With Qubes 4.1.1 and kernel-latest everything i tested seems to work. I can’t test HDMI audio, but after doing all updates, 3 HDMI audio devices show up. Sys-net has to be restarted after wake up from suspend to get wifi working again, trackpoint stops working after waking up.

Longer:
Things i tried:

  • WiFi/Ethernet works
  • Touchpad, Trackpoint, Keyboard works
  • Keyboard shortcuts for mute, volume buttons, mic mute and brightness work
  • Bluetooth device shows up under USB devices
  • Speakers and headphone jack work, but sound really quiet/bad compared to windows (seems to be a problem in all linux distros i tried, might be just a configuration issue with alsa)
  • Headphone jack works (at least for output, couldn’t try input)
  • Internal mic and webcam work fine
  • Lenovo Thunderbolt 3 Dock Gen 1 works fine with cloned sys-usb for the usb controller in the dock and 4k screen via display port
  • Fans get angry as soon as i have more than a couple qubes running, even with tlp. I really miss power-profiles-daemon from the newer fedora versions for better power management. In windows and linux the fans stay off mostly
  • Battery lasts about 2-3 hours max compared to 7+ hours in Windows 11 with power saver and 5-6 hours in linux with power-profiles-daemon
  • Suspend works with the “Linux S3” setting in the uefi but breaks wifi and the track point. In earlier kernel and uefi versions it woke up but crashed completely soon after. Seems to be better now. I can’t tell what fixed it because i don’t suspend at all because of the wifi and trackpoint
  • Youtube in firefox is okay, as long as you disable the hardware acceleration
  • Video playback of high bitrate 1080p files works fine but the fans run on full speed. No fun watching movies with the very silent speakers and the fan noise.

Things I didn’t try:

  • Mic input via headphone jack
  • HDMI audio output

Other points:

  • With sys-audio sound works, but the keyboard shortcuts and the indicator lights stop working. Keyboard shortcuts can be fixed with xfce keyboard shortcuts in dom0 but i couldn’t get the lights to work again
  • The low volume/bad audio quality is really annoying because the speakers are really loud and sound great under windows. I played with the alsa config, tried setting model=auto via modprobe, tried selecting another output with hdajackretask from alsa-tools but had no success. It sounded even worse with most of the things i tried
  • altogether the performance with qubes compared to other os is okay and what to expect with the 11th gen mobile

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