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Thinkpad T470
- Year introduced: 2018
- Model: (Lenovo T470 20HD000EMX)
- FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE
- Xorg - Tested with kde plasma, xfce, mate
Hardware
- CPU: Intel i7-7500U (2 cores, 4 threads, Kaby Lake) (2.7GHz/3.5GHz)
- Ethernet: Intel I219-V [em(4)] - works
- Graphics: Intel HD 620 [ drm-kmod - works]
- Memory: 8192 MB - DDR4 2400MHz (1x8GB)
- Screen: 14“ FHD (IPS) (1920×1080)
- Storage: PCIe NVMe: 256GB OPAL2
- Wireless: Intel 7260 [iwm(4)] Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 8265 - works
Support overview
| Component | Status | Details | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Graphics | Graphical sessions | ✔ |
| Backlight (brightness) control |  | ||
| Input devices | Keyboard backlight | ✔ |
| Touchpad | ✔ | |
| Touch screen | ||
| Trackpoint | ✔ |
| Media keys | Brightness keys | | |
| Volume keys | ✔ | ||
| Network | Ethernet | ✔ | |
| Wi-Fi | ✔ | ||
| Other | Battery | ✔ | |
| Bluetooth | |||
| CD/DVD drive | |||
| ExpressCard reader | |||
| Fan | |||
| Fingerprint reader | |||
| PC card reader | |||
| SD card reader | |||
| SIM card slot | |||
| Smart card reader | |||
| Suspend & resume | ✔ | ||
| Webcam | ✔ | ||
| Ports | DisplayPort | ||
| FireWire | |||
| HDMI | ✔ | ||
| Thunderbolt | |||
| USB | ✔ | ||
| VGA | |||
| Sound | Headphone jack | ✔ | |
| Microphone jack | ✔ | ||
| Speakers | ✔ | ||
| Last update: 2023-10-15 20:46:01 UTC | |||
- Legend
- ✔ OK
- Somewhat OK: requires additional tweaking or works worse than expected
Present but status unknown or untested- ✘ Does not work
- nothing Not sure if present
Notes
- Supports UEFI and SecureBoot, but both can be disabled in the BIOS
- Brightness controls for screen does work depending on dwm being used. It did work by default in Gnome,KDE , but not in Mate,Xfce [ sysctl hw.acpi.video.lcd0.brightness=VALUE - works ]
- Suspend/Resume has random behaviour in my experience. [ – S3 state seems to be working in MATE @ default , (update 2023) ] [ – S3 state not currently working, It freezes and a reboot is required (sometimes in gnome and xfce it did work but no luck in KDE5/Plasma)]
- Headphone output, laptop speakers is working by default with [snd_hda(4)].
- Ethernet works straight out of the install ([em(4)])
- Wireless works straigh out of the install [(iwm(4)]
- Graphics work with drm-kmod, (i915kms)
- Touchpad feels like a normal linux installation but not as good as windows 7/10/11.
- Battery usage/drain depends on dwm, works excellent in xfce or mate (or i3/awesome etc), powerd++/powerd settings recommended.
- Not tested with docking yet.
- Untested: Camera,Microphone,Fingerprint reader