thinkpad-e14-linux VS yoga-slim7-ubuntu

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.

This doesn't really 'fix' the problem, but rather just a workaround to stop the laptop from freaking out every time you just need to close the lid for whatever the reason it may be. Hitting 'suspend,sleep,etc.' or any thing related to calling the system to enter a sleep state will only cause the problem to occur. Like on my setup I also prevented hitting the power button go into sleep mode too so it's far less of an annoyance now than before.Hopefully in the future support from Lenovo or people working on the linux kernel can figure out a way to avoid this (especially since a fix seemed to be possible prior to 5.10 using a DSDT method as instructed in this github page: https://github.com/jrandiny/yoga-slim7-ubuntu, but after 5.11 this isn't possible because IDK)

There's a guide on the Archwiki#EnablingS3(before_BIOS_version_1.33)) to fix the S3 mode. As I'm using Ubuntu atm I can't tell if it's working (can't get S3 to work here, even though there's a decent git guide so I will most likely make an attempt with Fedora later.

it's a problem related to the Yoga Slim 7 suspend mode, there is a trick to avoid this here

Check this: https:/github/jrandiny/yoga-slim7-ubuntu. It may work for you too. For me it worked pretty well.

Hello, I'm having an issue where the screen of my laptop won't turn on after going to suspend state. I tried to do the fix stated in this github repo but I lost it on the part where adding kernel parameters using GRUB, can anyone help me do it using kernelstub. Thanks :-)

It works well, but requires a recent kernel and some tricks to make audio and ACPI work: https://github.com/jrandiny/yoga-slim7-ubuntu

I don't know really what causes it but maybe this helps, do it with caution: https://github.com/jrandiny/yoga-slim7-ubuntu

Also see https://github.com/jrandiny/yoga-slim7-ubuntu