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Models covered
Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Yoga (3rd Gen)

Overall Status

Core Components

[ATTACH]

Boot Standard Kernel:

{OK}

LAN network card:

[?]

Detect CD/DVD:

[-]

Detect hard drives:

{OK}

Extra Features

CPU Frequency Scaling

{OK}

Hibernation

{OK}

Sleep / Suspend

{i}

Xorg

{OK}

- OpenGL

{OK}

- Resize-and-Rotate(randr)

{OK}

Switch to External Screen

{OK}

Mouse

- Built-in (Trackpoint)

{OK}

- Built-in (Touchpad)

{OK}

Modem

[-]

Wireless/Wifi

X-(

Keyboard's Hotkeys

{OK}

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

{i} With the default BIOS, the initial UEFI splash screen will be fine, but booting will result in a black screen. To fix this, turn on CSM support under UEFI support in the BIOS. This will give you an install screen with tiny fonts. When finished installing, I was able to turn CSM back off. Turning off UEFI entirely and using Legacy also boots with reasonably sized fonts, but I have not tested whether the resulting installation works.

{X} I could not get dual monitors working with the thunderbolt port and HDMI port. Dual monitors do work by using both thunderbolt ports, or through the Thunderbolt 3 Dock with monitors attached via Displayport.

X-( When loading wireless firmware, the installer always asked twice for the USB drive.

{X} The trackpad does not work during the install. The trackpoint does work.

{i} Suspending would reliably kill my Gnome session until I turned on Legacy support for Thunderbolt in the BIOS. With that fix, suspending still sometimes causes problems with my Gnome session.

{X} The BIOS for this machine and the X1 Carbon Gen 6 do not support deep sleep suspend (S3). There has been some success in fixing this for the X1 Carbon Gen 6 on reddit and the Arch wiki. Setting GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="acpi.ec_no_wakeup=1" in /etc/default/grub and running 'update-grub' seems to work.

{X} The pen mostly works (e.g. Gnome Terminal, ?MyPaint, Gimp). The first button does not seem to register, but the second button works in a few applications.

{i} To use the ethernet on the Thinkpad Thunderbolt Dock, you will have to disable Thunderbolt security. Enabling it for "Display and USB" will not be enough.

System Summary

lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 08)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 620 (rev 07)
00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Skylake Processor Thermal Subsystem (rev 08)
00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Skylake Gaussian Mixture Model
00:13.0 Non-VGA unclassified device: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Integrated Sensor Hub (rev 21)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP USB 3.0 xHCI Controller (rev 21)
00:14.2 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Thermal subsystem (rev 21)
00:15.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #0 (rev 21)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP CSME HECI #1 (rev 21)
00:16.3 Serial controller: Intel Corporation Device 9d3d (rev 21)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PCI Express Root Port (rev f1)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #5 (rev f1)
00:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #9 (rev f1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device 9d4e (rev 21)
00:1f.2 Memory controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PMC (rev 21)
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio (rev 21)
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP SMBus (rev 21)
00:1f.6 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (4) I219-LM (rev 21)
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 8265 / 8275 (rev 78)
05:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device a808

lsusb

Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0bda:0328 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. 
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 06cb:009a Synaptics, Inc. 
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04f2:b61e Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd 
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0a2b Intel Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 056a:5147 Wacom Co., Ltd 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

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

lsmod

Module                  Size  Used by
fuse                  118784  3
acpi_call              16384  0
ctr                    16384  2
ccm                    20480  3
rfcomm                 90112  4
cmac                   16384  1
bnep                   24576  2
btusb                  53248  0
btrtl                  16384  1 btusb
btbcm                  16384  1 btusb
btintel                16384  1 btusb
bluetooth             622592  31 btrtl,btintel,bnep,btbcm,rfcomm,btusb
uvcvideo              102400  0
videobuf2_vmalloc      16384  1 uvcvideo
videobuf2_memops       16384  1 videobuf2_vmalloc
drbg                   28672  1
videobuf2_v4l2         28672  1 uvcvideo
videobuf2_core         45056  2 uvcvideo,videobuf2_v4l2
ansi_cprng             16384  0
wacom                 110592  0
sd_mod                 53248  0
videodev              200704  3 uvcvideo,videobuf2_core,videobuf2_v4l2
sg                     36864  0
ecdh_generic           24576  1 bluetooth
media                  45056  2 uvcvideo,videodev
usbhid                 57344  1 wacom
snd_hda_codec_hdmi     57344  1
snd_hda_codec_realtek   106496  1
snd_hda_codec_generic    86016  1 snd_hda_codec_realtek
msr                    16384  0
i2c_designware_platform    16384  0
arc4                   16384  2
i2c_designware_core    20480  1 i2c_designware_platform
sparse_keymap          16384  0
wmi_bmof               16384  0
intel_rapl             24576  0
x86_pkg_temp_thermal    16384  0
intel_powerclamp       16384  0
coretemp               16384  0
kvm_intel             225280  0
binfmt_misc            20480  1
snd_soc_skl            98304  0
kvm                   700416  1 kvm_intel
snd_soc_skl_ipc        73728  1 snd_soc_skl
irqbypass              16384  1 kvm
snd_soc_sst_ipc        16384  1 snd_soc_skl_ipc
snd_soc_sst_dsp        36864  1 snd_soc_skl_ipc
nls_ascii              16384  1
crct10dif_pclmul       16384  0
crc32_pclmul           16384  0
nls_cp437              20480  1
snd_hda_ext_core       28672  1 snd_soc_skl
snd_soc_sst_match      16384  1 snd_soc_skl
ghash_clmulni_intel    16384  0
vfat                   20480  1
fat                    77824  1 vfat
intel_cstate           16384  0
snd_soc_core          258048  1 snd_soc_skl
iwlmvm                290816  0
snd_compress           24576  1 snd_soc_core
intel_uncore          131072  0
intel_rapl_perf        16384  0
mac80211              802816  1 iwlmvm
evdev                  28672  24
efi_pstore             16384  0
joydev                 24576  0
pcspkr                 16384  0
serio_raw              16384  0
efivars                20480  1 efi_pstore
iwlwifi               212992  1 iwlmvm
iTCO_wdt               16384  0
iTCO_vendor_support    16384  1 iTCO_wdt
cfg80211              720896  3 iwlmvm,iwlwifi,mac80211
idma64                 20480  0
snd_hda_intel          45056  6
snd_hda_codec         151552  4 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec_realtek
i915                 1613824  38
snd_hda_core           90112  7 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_ext_core,snd_soc_skl,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec_realtek
snd_hwdep              16384  1 snd_hda_codec
hid_sensor_als         16384  1
hid_sensor_gyro_3d     16384  0
hid_sensor_accel_3d    16384  1
hid_sensor_trigger     16384  6 hid_sensor_als,hid_sensor_accel_3d,hid_sensor_gyro_3d
snd_pcm               118784  7 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_ext_core,snd_hda_core,snd_soc_skl,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_soc_core
hid_sensor_iio_common    16384  4 hid_sensor_als,hid_sensor_accel_3d,hid_sensor_trigger,hid_sensor_gyro_3d
drm_kms_helper        192512  1 i915
industrialio_triggered_buffer    16384  3 hid_sensor_als,hid_sensor_accel_3d,hid_sensor_gyro_3d
mei_me                 45056  0
snd_timer              36864  1 snd_pcm
kfifo_buf              16384  1 industrialio_triggered_buffer
mei                   114688  1 mei_me
shpchp                 40960  0
industrialio           81920  8 hid_sensor_als,hid_sensor_accel_3d,hid_sensor_trigger,hid_sensor_gyro_3d,industrialio_triggered_buffer,kfifo_buf
intel_lpss_pci         20480  0
ucsi_acpi              16384  0
drm                   438272  26 i915,drm_kms_helper
tpm_crb                16384  0
intel_lpss             16384  1 intel_lpss_pci
typec_ucsi             32768  1 ucsi_acpi
i2c_algo_bit           16384  1 i915
intel_pch_thermal      16384  0
processor_thermal_device    16384  0
intel_soc_dts_iosf     16384  1 processor_thermal_device
typec                  28672  1 typec_ucsi
battery                20480  0
wmi                    28672  1 wmi_bmof
button                 16384  1 i915
thinkpad_acpi          98304  1
nvram                  16384  1 thinkpad_acpi
snd                    94208  23 snd_compress,snd_hda_intel,snd_hwdep,snd_hda_codec,snd_timer,thinkpad_acpi,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_soc_co
re,snd_pcm                                                                                                                                                                          
soundcore              16384  1 snd
rfkill                 28672  8 bluetooth,thinkpad_acpi,cfg80211
ac                     16384  0
int3403_thermal        16384  0
video                  45056  2 thinkpad_acpi,i915
int3402_thermal        16384  0
int3400_thermal        16384  0
int340x_thermal_zone    16384  3 int3402_thermal,int3403_thermal,processor_thermal_device
acpi_thermal_rel       16384  1 int3400_thermal
acpi_pad               24576  0
parport_pc             32768  0
ppdev                  20480  0
lp                     20480  0
parport                57344  3 lp,parport_pc,ppdev
efivarfs               16384  1
ip_tables              28672  0
x_tables               40960  1 ip_tables
autofs4                49152  2
ext4                  720896  2
crc16                  16384  2 bluetooth,ext4
mbcache                16384  1 ext4
jbd2                  118784  1 ext4
fscrypto               32768  1 ext4
ecb                    16384  0
btrfs                1339392  0
zstd_decompress        94208  1 btrfs
zstd_compress         188416  1 btrfs
xxhash                 16384  2 zstd_compress,zstd_decompress
raid10                 57344  0
raid456               163840  0
async_raid6_recov      20480  1 raid456
async_memcpy           16384  2 raid456,async_raid6_recov
async_pq               16384  2 raid456,async_raid6_recov
async_xor              16384  3 async_pq,raid456,async_raid6_recov
async_tx               16384  5 async_xor,async_pq,raid456,async_memcpy,async_raid6_recov
xor                    24576  2 async_xor,btrfs
uas                    28672  0
usb_storage            73728  1 uas
scsi_mod              253952  4 sd_mod,usb_storage,uas,sg
raid6_pq              122880  4 async_pq,btrfs,raid456,async_raid6_recov
libcrc32c              16384  1 raid456
crc32c_generic         16384  0
raid1                  45056  0
raid0                  20480  0
multipath              16384  0
linear                 16384  0
md_mod                159744  6 raid1,raid10,multipath,linear,raid0,raid456
hid_sensor_custom      24576  0
hid_sensor_hub         20480  6 hid_sensor_als,hid_sensor_accel_3d,hid_sensor_iio_common,hid_sensor_trigger,hid_sensor_gyro_3d,hid_sensor_custom
mfd_core               16384  2 hid_sensor_hub,intel_lpss
intel_ishtp_hid        24576  0
hid                   131072  4 hid_sensor_hub,usbhid,wacom,intel_ishtp_hid
crc32c_intel           24576  6
nvme                   36864  4
i2c_i801               28672  0
aesni_intel           188416  5
xhci_pci               16384  0
aes_x86_64             20480  1 aesni_intel
e1000e                282624  0
crypto_simd            16384  1 aesni_intel
xhci_hcd              241664  1 xhci_pci
cryptd                 28672  3 crypto_simd,ghash_clmulni_intel,aesni_intel
glue_helper            16384  1 aesni_intel
ptp                    20480  1 e1000e
psmouse               167936  0
pps_core               20480  1 ptp
intel_ish_ipc          24576  0
nvme_core              53248  6 nvme
usbcore               286720  7 uvcvideo,usbhid,usb_storage,xhci_pci,btusb,uas,xhci_hcd
usb_common             16384  1 usbcore
intel_ishtp            45056  2 intel_ishtp_hid,intel_ish_ipc
thermal                20480  0

Installation Report

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