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Panasonic Let's Note CF-RZ6

This is a subnotebook manufactured for the Japanese domestic market. They can be bought in Akihabara for very little money. It has a higher-resolution screen than some ThinkPads more than three times the weight, and the hardware isn't too exotic. It's a great on-call machine.

This page is a work in progress.

Hardware

CPU Intel Core i5-7Y54 @ 1.2 GHz, 3.20 GHz burst, dual core
Ethernet Intel PRO/1000
Graphics Intel HD Graphics 615
Memory 8 GiB DDR3L-1600
Screen 10.1-inch, 1920×1200, 215.63 HiDPI
Storage 128 GiB or 256 GiB eMMC SSD
Wireless Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 8265
Audio Realtek ALC256

Support overview

Component Status Details
Graphics Graphical sessions ✔ Works with drm-kmod and xf86-video-intel
Backlight (brightness) control ✔ Using intel-backlight
Input devices Touchpad ✔ Scrolling, tap-to-click work
Media keys Brightness keys ✔ Using intel-backlight
Volume keys ✔ Using [FN]+[F5]/[F6] out of the box
Network Ethernet ✔ em(4)
Wi-Fi ✔ iwm(4) 802.11ac works as of 13.0-RELEASE
Other Battery ✔ apm(8) shows correct data
Bluetooth :!: To test
Fan ✔ Auto-throttles correctly
SD card reader :!: To test
Suspend & resume :?: Works with extra config, see notes below
Ports HDMI ✔
USB ✔ USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 ports work
VGA ✔
Sound Headphone jack ✔
Microphone jack :!: To test
Speakers ✔ pcm(8) detects
Internal Mic :!: To test
Last update: FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE GENERIC amd64

Legend

✔ OK
:?: Somewhat OK: requires additional tweaks, or suboptimal
:!: Present, but status unknown or untested
✘ Inoperable

Notes

Suspend/resume

Works from FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE onwards, with these considerations:

  1. Set hw.acpi.lid_switch_state=S3 in /etc/sysctl.conf.
  1. Video will not return on resume unless drm-kmod is used. You can still cleanly reboot by typing shutdown -r now blind, or SSH in if you lock yourself out.
  1. Trackpad will not always return on resume unless you add hint.psm.0.flags="0x6000" to /boot/loader.conf to enable HOOKRESUME and INITAFTERSUSPEND. Thanks Kazutaka Yokota for explaining in the psm(4) manpage, and Jung-uk Kim in freebsd-mobile.
  1. As far as I (RubenSchade) can tell, Wi-Fi and Ethernet both work after resuming without further config.

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