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DebianOn is an effort to document how to install, configure and use Debian on some specific hardware. Therefore potential buyers would know if that hardware is supported and owners would know how get the best out of that hardware.

The purpose is not to duplicate the Debian Official Documentation, but to document how to install Debian on some specific hardware.

If you need help to get Debian running on your hardware, please have a look at our user support channels where you may find specific channels (mailing list, IRC channel) dedicated to certain types of hardware.

Lenovo ?ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 8 Core i5-10210U 16GB 512GB SSD 14 Inch FHD
Model Code: 20U9001PUS

Overall Status

Core Components

[ATTACH]

Boot Standard Kernel:

{OK}

LAN network card:

{OK}

Detect CD/DVD:

[-]

Detect hard drives:

{OK}

Secure boot:

{OK}

Extra Features

CPU Frequency Scaling

[?]

Hibernation

[?]

Sleep / Suspend

{OK}

Xorg

[?]

- OpenGL

[?]

- Resize-and-Rotate(randr)

[?]

Switch to External Screen

[?]

Mouse

- Built-in (Trackpoint)

{OK}

- Built-in (Touchpad)

{OK}

Modem

[-]

Wireless/Wifi

{OK}

Bluetooth

{OK}

Keyboard's Hotkeys

{OK}

Sound

X-(

Legend :
{OK} = OK ; {X} Unsupported(No Driver) ; /!\ = Error (Couldn't get it working); [?] Unknown, Not Test ; [-] Not-applicable
{i} = Configuration Required; X-( = Only works with a non-free driver and or firmware

Important Note

During boot press F1 to enter BIOS and F12 to select boot media.

Debian was installed using the unofficial non-free CD including firmware. Official CD was not tested.

Configuration

Update Firmware

Use fwupdmgr to update the devices firmware. 

$ fwupdmgr update
Devices with no available firmware updates: 
 • Thunderbolt host controller
 • UEFI Device Firmware
 • UEFI Device Firmware
 • UEFI dbx
Upgrade available for Embedded Controller from 0.1.5 to 0.1.08
[...]
Upgrade available for Intel Management Engine from 224.39.1367 to 224.45.1389
[...]
Upgrade available for System Firmware from 0.1.11 to 0.1.14
[...]
Devices with the latest available firmware version:
 • Touchpad
 • WDC PC SN730 SDBQNTY-512G-1001

An update requires a reboot to complete. Restart now? [y|N]: N

Audio

For Debian bullseye with Linux >= 5.5:

Install Sound open Firmware, otherwise there is no sound at all: 

sudo apt install firmware-sof-signed

Mouse

Power Management

You may have problem with suspend (on bullseye, at least): after some seconds the system unsuspends again (cf. the LED: first it is blinking, then permanently on). This bug description proposes a workaround: use deep suspend rather than s2idle.

WiFi

Modem

System Summary

lspci

$ lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Comet Lake-U v1 4c Host Bridge/DRAM Controller [8086:9b61] (rev 0c)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation CometLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics] [8086:9b41] (rev 02)
00:04.0 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor Thermal Subsystem [8086:1903] (rev 0c)
00:08.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/v6 / E3-1500 v5 / 6th/7th/8th Gen Core Processor Gaussian Mixture Model [8086:1911]
00:12.0 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation Comet Lake Thermal Subsytem [8086:02f9]
00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Comet Lake PCH-LP USB 3.1 xHCI Host Controller [8086:02ed]
00:14.2 RAM memory [0500]: Intel Corporation Comet Lake PCH-LP Shared SRAM [8086:02ef]
00:14.3 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Comet Lake PCH-LP CNVi WiFi [8086:02f0]
00:15.0 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Serial IO I2C Host Controller [8086:02e8]
00:15.1 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Comet Lake Serial IO I2C Host Controller [8086:02e9]
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation Comet Lake Management Engine Interface [8086:02e0]
00:1d.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:02b0] (rev f0)
00:1d.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:02b4] (rev f0)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Comet Lake PCH-LP LPC Premium Controller/eSPI Controller [8086:0284]
00:1f.3 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Comet Lake PCH-LP cAVS [8086:02c8]
00:1f.4 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation Comet Lake PCH-LP SMBus Host Controller [8086:02a3]
00:1f.5 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Comet Lake SPI (flash) Controller [8086:02a4]
00:1f.6 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (10) I219-V [8086:0d4f]
03:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller [0108]: Sandisk Corp WD Black SN750 / PC SN730 NVMe SSD [15b7:5006]
05:00.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation JHL6540 Thunderbolt 3 Bridge (C step) [Alpine Ridge 4C 2016] [8086:15d3] (rev 02)
06:00.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation JHL6540 Thunderbolt 3 Bridge (C step) [Alpine Ridge 4C 2016] [8086:15d3] (rev 02)
06:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation JHL6540 Thunderbolt 3 Bridge (C step) [Alpine Ridge 4C 2016] [8086:15d3] (rev 02)
06:02.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation JHL6540 Thunderbolt 3 Bridge (C step) [Alpine Ridge 4C 2016] [8086:15d3] (rev 02)
06:04.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation JHL6540 Thunderbolt 3 Bridge (C step) [Alpine Ridge 4C 2016] [8086:15d3] (rev 02)
07:00.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation JHL6540 Thunderbolt 3 NHI (C step) [Alpine Ridge 4C 2016] [8086:15d2] (rev 02)
2d:00.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation JHL6540 Thunderbolt 3 USB Controller (C step) [Alpine Ridge 4C 2016] [8086:15d4] (rev 02)

lsusb

$ lsusb -v | grep -E '\<(Bus|iProduct|bDeviceClass|bDeviceProtocol)' 2>/dev/null
[sudo] password for arno: 
can't get debug descriptor: Resource temporarily unavailable
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceProtocol         3 
  iProduct                2 xHCI Host Controller
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceProtocol         1 Single TT
  iProduct                2 xHCI Host Controller
can't get device qualifier: Resource temporarily unavailable
can't get debug descriptor: Resource temporarily unavailable
can't get debug descriptor: Resource temporarily unavailable
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceProtocol         3 
  iProduct                2 xHCI Host Controller
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 06cb:00bd Synaptics, Inc. Prometheus MIS Touch Fingerprint Reader
  bDeviceClass          255 Vendor Specific Class
  bDeviceProtocol       255 
  iProduct                0 
      (Bus Powered)
can't get device qualifier: Resource temporarily unavailable
can't get debug descriptor: Resource temporarily unavailable
  (Bus Powered)
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 13d3:56bb IMC Networks Integrated Camera
  bDeviceClass          239 Miscellaneous Device
  bDeviceProtocol         1 Interface Association
  iProduct                1 Integrated Camera
      (Bus Powered)
can't get debug descriptor: Resource temporarily unavailable
  (Bus Powered)
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 8087:0026 Intel Corp. 
  bDeviceClass          224 Wireless
  bDeviceProtocol         1 Bluetooth
  iProduct                0 
can't get debug descriptor: Resource temporarily unavailable
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceProtocol         1 Single TT
  iProduct                2 xHCI Host Controller
can't get device qualifier: Resource temporarily unavailable
can't get debug descriptor: Resource temporarily unavailable

USB Host controllers entries (without OHCI, UHCI, EHCI) are removed too.

Resources

Attachments

Some configuration files and sample outputs.

Other reports

Credits