Running Qubes on Lenovo X1 Carbon Gen 9th

Tried that already, but with the changed behaviour (reboot vs black screen only) Ill try it again…

Check out thinkfan…

sudo qubes-dom0-update thinkfan

… it allows you to define your own fan pattern, basically a trade off
between temperature and noise. Most (including me) use it to throttle
the fan so that in normal / idle use the fan doesn’t run at all and only
turns on when necessary / under load to prevent overheating. This is to
make the ThinkPad more silent in day to day use, but has to be done with
care and understanding of the components and their heat limits.

On the other hand you can use the same tool to define a much more
aggressive fan pattern (I’ve done this too as an experiment) to keep
your ThinkPad as cool as possible. You could go even so far as to run
your fan at full speed all the time. Clearly this will result in fan
noise, so it’s unlikely that you really want this.

Here is my “silent” config:

(0, 0, 66)
(1, 62, 70)
(2, 66, 74)
(3, 70, 78)
(4, 74, 82)
(5, 78, 86)
(6, 82, 90)
(7, 86, 94)
(127, 90, 32767)

… and this is my “cool” config:

(0, 0, 36)
(1, 32, 40)
(2, 36, 44)
(3, 40, 48)
(4, 44, 52)
(5, 48, 56)
(6, 52, 60)
(7, 56, 64)
(127, 60, 32767)

The first number in each row is the controlled fan speed 0 (off) to 7
(max) with the 127 meaning “no control, as fast as the fan can do”. The
second number is the temperature in Celsius at which the fan speed
should step down to the previous line, while the last number is the
temperature in Celsius at which the fan speed should step up to the
following line.

My CPU (i7-3840) has a t_junction of 105 degrees Celsius, which means at
that temperature it will fail and turn off to prevent damage. A good
rule of thumb is that you never want your temperature to go over
t_junction - 15 … so in my case 90 degrees and your idle temperature
t_junction - 45 … so about 65 degrees. Now many will point out that
this is dangerous as your hard drive might already fail at 55 degrees
and if your CPU is always around 65 then the hard drive might reach 55
degrees after a while. I don’t care, because I use an SSD and those are
“comfortable” up to 70 degrees or more. I write this mostly for others
reading this after the fact, fully aware that you want to actually cool
down.

This is fairly straight forward, but if you want to try and still have
questions after reading the documentation don’t hesitate to ask.

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Hi BigQ,

I would ask that posts in this category especially if they have “HCL” in
the title are actual HCL reports including YML file.

If it’s still an ongoing affair like this thread, it is better posted in
the support category. Once the install was successful a HCL report can
then be posted here and the support thread linked.

Thank you for understanding!

Thank you very much for your detailed answer! Back to the roots, its more then 10 years a had to fiddle around with fan speed, temps, voltage, clocks, etc. when overclocking the sh** out of my PCs :smile: I were not aware how good my T440s was/is …

Hi Sven!
Oh, my apologies! Seeing other threads, I thought that is the way it should be done, sorry! For me it would be all fine if this gets moved (to support) and Ill make a HCL later separately, hopefully with solutions to at least some of those issues.

Thanks to @anon46358619 s hint (HCL - Lenovo Thinkpad X13 Yoga Gen2 (20W80013GE) - #5 by Tie-fighter) sound output works, internal mic doesnt. External mic has to be tested but is recognised when plugged in and vu-meter in audio mixer shows input.

I had installed alsa-sof-firmware from current-testing earlier, but did not check if it works without too.

Im puzzled because that hasnt been mentioned once in this forum, but according to this issue (Support for Intel Tiger Lake Processors · Issue #6411 · QubesOS/qubes-issues · GitHub) suspend is currently and for the near future just not possible with Tiger Lake CPUs because of S0ix and no support by Xen?

It’s been mentioned a couple of times.

Suspend is really not a good idea from a security perspective: if your
device gets stolen while suspended it is possible for a skilled attacker
to extract the decryption keys from memory.

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Moved to User Support

Are you referring to suspend problems in general or this special case/issue with Tiger Lake + Xen and not supported S0ix? In latter case, would you please link one or two examples? Even by search I didnt find anything. Please dont get me wrong, I just want to read more about it and eventually participate the discussion.
Plus, knowing that, I can stop searching for solutions and fiddle around with different approaches.

Im fully aware of this “security problem”, and when applicable I shutdown, but in my daily work, this aspect is negligible and the advantages (saving battery, open lid and continue work immediately) outbalance them by far. Beside that, I cant put a running laptop in my bag, it would overheat.

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@BigQ asked:

would you please link one or two examples?

@turkja mentioned it in a discussion about
restarting

and again when talking about the
4.1.0-beta1

@fiftyfourthparallel reported that his i7-1065G7 “Ice Lake” doesn’t
wake from
suspend.

Ok, the first I have maybe overseen (unrelated topic) but hey, the second was posted after I have searched and the third is unrelated (Ice Lake does support S3?!) :wink:
I thought you mean it was discussed or mentioned at affected devices.

Anyway, it’s a fact and I have to come to terms with it.

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Hi, you referenced wifi working but I cannot get sys-net to pickup, I keep getting rkill enabled. Did you do something special?

Edit:
kernel is 5.10.61-1
manager: rfkill: WiFi enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file
manager: rfkill: WWAN enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file

Tried blacklisting ideapad_laptop but no luck.

Enabling and specifically installing firmware-iwlwifi from back-ports worked as described here: AX200/201 iwlwifi.

hi, I’m planning to get this laptop Lenovo X1 Carbon Gen 9. How is it going for you so far? Did you find any other issues?

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Does anyone know how to make the qubes Vms icons bigger and the bar when you open them everything looks tiny I can barely read them, I already change the letter size System Tools>Appearance but when I open a VM or the actual VMs icons are extremely small ?
I’m using a Lenovo X1 Carbon gen 9

do you have 4k display? seems hidpi issue

I do have 4k

It’s quite useful information. It helped me to make my modern Thinkpad quite, thank you.
Maybe the part about 127 value for the first column is outdated by now. None the less Qubes OS is MUCH fan-noisier during idle state than it is on GNU/Linux distros, so this fan management is almost must have for laptops with Qubes OS.

Have you thought about making a guide about thinkfan on the forum?