Thinkpad P1 Gen 5

User Support HCL Reports
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Installation

  • Any problems with installation - Installation with default kernel results in extremely slow graphics and WiFi not working. Installation works fine with latest kernel (>= 6.1).
  • Was latest kernel required? - Yes, kind of.
  • Were some additional kernel options required? - No

Basic Input

  • Keyboard - works
  • External USB mouse [if possible to check] - works
  • Touch-pad - untested
  • Touch-pad supports “tap as click” and scrolling with 2 fingers works, - untested
  • Display brightness change shortcuts, - works
  • Sound volume shortcuts, - works (but see audio section)
  • Keyboard led and keyboard brightness change shortcuts, - works
  • Output of xinput --list from terminal of dom0
⎡ Virtual core pointer                    	id=2	[master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer              	id=4	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ TPPS/2 Elan TrackPoint                  	id=10	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard                   	id=3	[master keyboard (2)]
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard             	id=5	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                            	id=6	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Video Bus                               	id=7	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Sleep Button                            	id=8	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard            	id=9	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ ThinkPad Extra Buttons                  	id=11	[slave  keyboard (3)]
  • Check if keyboard and/or touchpad is PS/2 connected (how to check) - keyboard is PS/2. touchpad untested

Internet and bluetooth

  • Ethernet cable connection - works out of the box or actions were required? - device does not have wired Ethernet
  • Ethernet cable connection - speed - device does not have wired Ethernet
  • Wifi connection - works out of the box or actions were required? - WiFi works with kernel 6.1 (and newer). WiFi doesn’t work with kernel 5.15. In order to make WiFi work with newer kernels, I had to install kernel-latest-qubes-vm (in dom0) and set sys-net to use the newer kernel. Otherwise, there is some firmware issue.
  • Wifi connection - speed, is reliable over the time? - reliable
  • Bluetooth - works out of the box or actions were required? - untested
  • Bluetooth - shows devices, connection process works, sound output or copying works. - untested

Suspend

  • Suspend/Resume works - works out of the box or actions were required? - Suspend works when set to suspend-to-idle in BIOS. Resume does not work when set to S3 - device suspends but reboots on resume.
  • Does resume breaks WiFi, if it does, how to recover it? - works
  • Does resume breaks Bluetooth, if it does, how to recover it? - untested

Video [increase VCPU to the qube before test]

  • Fullscreen and windowed video playback of youtube - 720p/1080p/2K/4K in Firefox. Does it drop frames? - works, but not extensively tested
  • Video file playback of file using mpv/mplayer/smplayer - 1080p? Higher resolutions and bitrates? - works, but not extensively tested
  • Multiple displays configuration works (using available DP/Thunderbolt, HDMI or other video ports, - external 4k screen over HDMI works

Audio

  • Speakers (sound playback) (was sys-audio used?), - works, but requires alsa-sof-firmware to be installed in dom0. no sys-audio
  • Head-phones via 3.5" jack (works, automatically turns off speakers?) - works
  • Sound output via HDMI - untested
  • Audio-optical (S/PDIF) output - unavailable
  • Internal microphone - works after installing alsa-ucm (in dom0)

Fans

  • Are fans silent on idle? - yes
  • Are fans noisier than on Windows/Linux?. If they are, was thankfan or similar software tried? - untested

Other

  • Have you tried running Windows 10 HVM qubes? - Windows 7 HVM seems to work, Windows 10 untested
  • Does CPU boost seem to be working properly? - CPU frequency scaling seems to work. CPU boost untested.

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