Lenovo ThinkPad P51

Here is the HCL report:

layout:
‘hcl’
type:
‘notebook’
hvm:
‘yes’
iommu:
‘yes’
slat:
‘yes’
tpm:
‘unknown’
remap:
‘yes’
brand: |
LENOVO
model: |
20HJS0A613
bios: |
N1UET86W (1.60 )
cpu: |
Intel(R) Core™ i7-7820HQ CPU @ 2.90GHz
cpu-short: |
FIXME
chipset: |
Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers [8086:5910] (rev 05)
chipset-short: |
FIXME
gpu: |
NVIDIA Corporation GM107GLM [Quadro M1200 Mobile] [10de:13b6] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
gpu-short: |
FIXME
network: |
Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (5) I219-LM (rev 31)
Intel Corporation Wireless 8265 / 8275 (rev 78)
memory: |
16169
scsi: |

usb: |
1
versions:

  • works:
    ‘FIXME:yes|no|partial’
    qubes: |
    R4.1
    xen: |
    4.14.5
    kernel: |
    5.15.81-1
    remark: |
    FIXME
    credit: |
    FIXAUTHOR
    link: |
    FIXLINK

I’ve been running this as my daily driver for about 3 weeks and it is working fine.

  • Suspend works well although overnight the battery can lose about 60% of its charge. I just turned off hyper-threading in BIOS today and will let you know if this improves things.
  • Audio over HDMI doesn’t work
  • I installed using discrete graphics and then tried moving back to hybrid. Unfortunately this meant that I couldn’t use an external monitor with the laptop monitor off (something I need). I moved back to discrete and the external monitor now works perfectly.
  • I have used the P51 with a Lenovo dock (Ultra model) and everything works perfectly.
  • For some reason the number 1 button (and exclamation mark) don’t work on the laptop keyboard. I use the numpad “1” as a workaround. My USB keyboard works perfectly including the “1/!” so very strange. I may have used the wrong keyboard setting when installing?

Very happy overall with my Qubes P51 setup.
Maffs0.

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