thinkpad-e14-linux VS thinkfan

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.

I use Thinkfan on my T420, T440, X230 and X1 that run Linux. I linked the author's github page, but I believe it's available straight from the package manager in Ubuntu/Mint, so elementary might have it too

For Linux: thinkfan

I have found Thinkfan seems to be a good way to control Thinkpad fans on Ubuntu. https://github.com/vmatare/thinkfan

Solved that with Thinkfan (https://github.com/vmatare/thinkfan)

The second solution on this page probably isn't reliable, because hwmon paths like `hwmon3` depend on module load order.

That's likely the same reason for the `card*` workaround mentioned above.

I am using thinkfan for this and it works really well: https://github.com/vmatare/thinkfan

I wrote about it here: https://github.com/vmatare/thinkfan/issues/190

As thinkfan (https://github.com/vmatare/thinkfan) doesn't come prepackaged with my Debian version I tried to build it myself. I installed all the libraries as instructed in the README file, and followed the build instructions. Running cmake works fine, but then when I run make I get the following linker error that I cannot solve no matter what I try (this is actually my first time building a project!):

you can learn more about the configuration file here: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Fan_speed_control/thinkfan https://github.com/vmatare/thinkfan/blob/master/examples/thinkfan.yaml