thinkpad-e14-linux VS ascii-logos

I myself have a gen 1 E14 I use on debian. Works great aside from the fingerprint sensor not working. See this github repo for an overview of potential problems with their workarounds.

Something of an obscure problem, but I found a repo on github with information about the E14 series running Linux. This particular part of it suggests flashing bios version 1.06 to fix the problem. This brings us to the problem I encountered.

I have an e14 gen2 and it works very well for web development and was like 650 EUR. Theres also a wiki page for the thinkpad e14 for running linux most things work ootb now tho.

FnKeys not working : Link Workaround (?)

clicking through to the linked repo i found a page on e14 trackpoint (snapshot) that looked relevant but echo "options psmouse elantech_smbus=0" >> /etc/modprobe.d/psmouse.conf && systemctl reboot didn't fix anything for me.

No I did it because I was setting up my device off the thonkpad e14 linux grub argument page that I created a while back. It has since been updated with a new method and I put a warning on it.

Found a solution in this guide: https://github.com/rodmaureirac/thinkpad-e14-linux/blob/main/tweaks/trackpoint/README.md. It fixed trackpoint and buttons for me. Intel version BTW.

It's a custom logo, you can tell neofetch to point to a text file with whatever logo you like in an ASCII format... the IBM logo is here btw: https://github.com/roadkell/ascii-art

Thank you. Also, to get the IBM ThinkPad logo on neofetch, I changed some stuff on the config file of neofetch. First, copy all the text from this link and paste into a new file. Basically, create a folder called .ASCII (with the dot behind so that the folder is hidden). And inside that .ASCII folder, go to the terminal, cd into that folder and type in touch ibmthinkpad to create a new file. Then, open the file with nano, vim or your favorite text editor and paste what you copied from that GitHub page. Then, type cd to go back to the home folder. Then, cd into the .config folder, then cd into the neofetch folder and open the config.conf with nano or whatever text editor you want, and search for the image source section, and change the already existed, non commented image_source line to image_source="/home/youruser/.ASCII/ibmthinkpad". Then scroll down a little and find the ASCII colors section. Change the already existing, non-commented ascii_colors line to ascii_colors=(7 4 2 1) . Then, save the file and exit. Then test your change by executing neofetch. For more info about this, visit the GitHub page of this project. You're welcome.

My friend showed it to me yesterday, and I did not know about that, but for this you can download this set of IBM ThinkPad ASCII logos. The GitHub page tells you how to use it and you can change your neofetch config to make the changes permanent, but I never modified the neofetch config file so I can't tell you anything about this. Also, welcome to Linux! I hope you're enjoying it! What distro do you use?