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ThinkPad X1 Yoga
Gen 4
- Year introduced: 2019
Hardware
- CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8665U CPU @ 1.90GHz (2112.09-MHz K8-class CPU)
- Ethernet: Intel Ethernet Connection (6) I219-LM
- Graphics: UHD Graphics 620 (Whiskey Lake)
- Memory: 16384 MB
- Screen: 14“ WQHD
- Storage: WD Black 2018/PC SN720 NVMe SSD
- Wireless: Intel Cannon Point-LP CNVi [Wireless-AC] (no driver)
Support overview
This laptop does not boot with 12.0-RELEASE.
| 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 | ✔ | 51 Wh capacity |
| Bluetooth | ✘ | ||
| CD/DVD drive | |||
| ExpressCard reader | |||
| Fan | ✔ | Can be controlled with acpi_ibm | |
| Fingerprint reader | | ||
| PC card reader | |||
| SD card reader | |||
| SIM card slot | |||
| Smart card reader | |||
| Suspend & resume | | Not yet tested with “legacy S3”, doesn't work with “modern suspend” | |
| Webcam | | ||
| Ports | DisplayPort | ||
| FireWire | |||
| HDMI | | ||
| Thunderbolt | |||
| USB | ✔ | ||
| VGA | |||
| Sound | Headphone jack | ✘ | |
| Microphone jack | |||
| Speakers | ✔ | ||
| Last update: FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT #0 r353709: Fri Oct 18 05:49:35 UTC 2019 | |||
- 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
Gen 3 - works fine
- Year introduced: 2018
Hardware
- CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8550U CPU @ 1.80GHz
- Ethernet: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection (4) I219-V (never tested, should work)
- Graphics: Intel(R) UHD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2)
- Memory: 16384 MB
- Screen: 14” WQHD
- Storage: Samsung PM981 1TB (MZVLB1T0HALR) NVMe
- Wireless: Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless AC 8265
- Cellular: XMM7360 LTE Advanced Modem (never tested, no driver)
- Digitizer: Wacom Co.,Ltd. Pen and multitouch sensor
- Camera: SunplusIT Inc Integrated Camera
Support overview
Basically, most things work out of the box on this, with FreeBSD 12 and 13 (from Jan 2021).
Exceptions are the LTE modem and fingerprint reader.
Also, there seems to be no support for the tablet sensor, I get nothing when in devd or anywhere when I fold it into tablet position :(
USB-C only startet to work with 13 for me, but I did a BIOS update at the same time, so I do not know what actually caused it to work.
I have now switched off Thunderbolt in BIOS, and I can’t remember this setting from before, so it might well be the BIOS.
| Component | Status | Details | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Graphics | Graphical sessions | ✔ | Slow with blender, some GPU hangs with Blender which stop console in 12, work in 13 |
| Backlight (brightness) control | ✔ | ||
| Input devices | Keyboard backlight | ✔ |
| Touchpad | ✔ | I never use this, but it seemed to work when Ι first configured it |
| Touch screen | ✔ | both Touch and Stylus work fine |
| Trackpoint | ✔ |
| Media keys | Brightness keys | ✔ | |
| Volume keys | | Never tried to configure them | |
| Network | Ethernet | ✔ | |
| Wi-Fi | ✔ | ||
| Other | Battery | ✔ | 51 Wh capacity, 6-7h uptime |
| Bluetooth | ✘ | ||
| Fan | ✔ | Can be controlled with acpi_ibm | |
| Fingerprint reader | ✘ | ||
| SD card reader | | doesn't work, might be my hardware | |
| SIM card slot | ✘ | no driver | |
| Smart card reader | |||
| Suspend & resume | ✔ | ||
| Webcam | ✔ | ||
| Ports | DisplayPort | | |
| HDMI | ✔ | ||
| Thunderbolt | | ||
| USB | ✔ | ||
| Sound | Headphone jack | ✔ | |
| Microphone jack | ✔ | ||
| Speakers | ✔ | ||
| Last update: FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT #0 main-c255520-g8c45fe5d8ec: Sun Jan 3 01:00:46 CET 2021 | |||
- 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
Tweaks
Needs acpi_video.ko for brightness control, acpi_ibm.ko does not work for brightness.
For good performance with blender, either start it with
vblank_mode=0 blender
or
LIBGL_DRI3_DISABLE=1 blender
it seems DRI3 is not working, even with the newest i915.ko.