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Models covered
Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Extreme Gen 1

Overall Status

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

Important Note

There are warnings out there about 'bricking' the computer if the BIOS is not updated before running linux. I'm not sure exactly what 'bricking' means in this context, but I started with a BIOS update.

I tried to set this up with Mint's LMDE installer (lmde-3-201808-cinnamon-64bit.iso). It may not be exactly the same as results using Debian installer, but hopefully is helpful info anyway. By all means replace this with pure Debian info as it comes available.

Mint's usual Ubuntu based edition does detect the WiFi and ethernet. After installing LMDE, I was able to boot from the Mint Ubuntu install media (I used linuxmint-19.1-cinnamon-64bit.iso), set up a chroot environment for the debian install, fix /etc/resolv.conf, and then use the working network environment from this boot media to update/install the Debian system via apt. This is a lot easier than trying to update using apt-offline.

Disable display sleep while running from the install media if there's any chance that the system might sit long enough for the screen to go to sleep. Otherwise the display will not wake up again.

I successfully set up LVM over LUKS using the export mode in the installer.

I got the NIC going by updating the kernel to the one in backports.

I got WiFi going by getting microcode (iwlwifi-9000-pu-b0-jf-b0-34.618819.0.tgz) from https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000005511/network-and-i-o/wireless-networking.html and put the .ucode file in /lib/firmware.

This might be relevant for getting the screen to behave: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=138882 . I suspect I need appropriate NVIDIA display drivers, but I'm not there yet.

Configuration

Display

The display works while it's on, but if for any reason it turns off, then it stays black thereafter, requiring a reboot to fix it.

Audio

Seems OK, but I haven't tested this much.

Mouse

Trackpad and pointer work fine.

Power Management

• (not covered yet)

Hibernate works. Suspend doesn't work, but I suspect this is not more than the Display sleep bug (see display).

WiFi

Not working

This does work using Mint Ubuntu. I then see the device being named wlp0s20f3, with modules iwlmvm and iwlwifi being loaded. Are they what is needed?

Ethernet

The X1 Extreme Gen 1 provides for ethernet with a dongle. It doesn'twork out of hte box with LMDE, but does work with Ubuntu Mint 19.1. Under Ubuntu Mint, the device appears as enp0s31f6.

System Summary

lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3ec4] (rev 07)
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Skylake PCIe Controller (x16) [8086:1901] (rev 07)
00:04.0 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation Skylake Processor Thermal Subsystem [8086:1903] (rev 07)
00:08.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Skylake Gaussian Mixture Model [8086:1911]
00:12.0 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a379] (rev 10)
00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a36d] (rev 10)
00:14.2 RAM memory [0500]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a36f] (rev 10)
00:14.3 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a370] (rev 10)
00:15.0 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a368] (rev 10)
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a360] (rev 10)
00:1b.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a340] (rev f0)
00:1b.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a32c] (rev f0)
00:1d.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a330] (rev f0)
00:1e.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a328] (rev 10)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a30e] (rev 10)
00:1f.3 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a348] (rev 10)
00:1f.4 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a323] (rev 10)
00:1f.5 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a324] (rev 10)
00:1f.6 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:15bb] (rev 10)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation Device [10de:1c8c] (rev a1)
01:00.1 Audio device [0403]: NVIDIA Corporation Device [10de:0fb9] (rev a1)
71:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller [0108]: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device [144d:a808]

lsusb

lsusb -v | grep -E '\<(Bus|iProduct|bDeviceClass|bDeviceProtocol)' 2>/dev/null

Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0bda:0328 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. 
  bDeviceClass            0 (Defined at Interface level)
  bDeviceProtocol         0 
  iProduct                2 USB3.0-CRW
      (Bus Powered)
  (Bus Powered)
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 002: ID 04f2:b614 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd 
  bDeviceClass          239 Miscellaneous Device
  bDeviceProtocol         1 Interface Association
  iProduct                2 Integrated Camera
      (Bus Powered)
  (Bus Powered)
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 8087:0aaa Intel Corp. 
  bDeviceClass          224 Wireless
  bDeviceProtocol         1 Bluetooth
  iProduct                0 
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04f2:b615 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd 
  bDeviceClass          239 Miscellaneous Device
  bDeviceProtocol         1 Interface Association
  iProduct                2 Integrated IR Camera
      (Bus Powered)
  (Bus Powered)
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

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

Resources

Attachments

Some configuration files and sample outputs.

Useful Links

Credits

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