Thinkpad T470s

An article about detailed setup can be found here on Michael's Daemonic Doodles (blog.grem.de).


  • CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7300U CPU @ 2.6GHz
  • Ethernet: Intel Ethernet Connection I219-V (Jacksonville)
  • Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 520 processor
  • Memory: 8192 MB
  • Screen: 1920 x 1080 IPS
  • Storage: M.2 SSD / SATA 6.0Gb/s (e.g. xxxGB SSD M.2)
  • Wireless: Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260, Wi-Fi 2×2 802.11ac + BT4.1, M.2 card
  • Battery: Front Li-Polymer (23Wh) and rear Li-ion (26Wh), both integrated

Component Status Details
Graphics Graphical sessions ✔ using drm-kmod and xf86-video-intel
Backlight (brightness) control ✔
Input devices Keyboard backlight ✔
Touchpad ✔ using xf86-input-synaptics
Trackpoint ✔
Media keys Brightness keys ✔ using intel-backlight
Volume keys ✔
Network Ethernet ✔ em(4)
Wi-Fi :?: iwn(4) 11n card but driver currently supports only 11a speeds
Other Battery ✔
Bluetooth :!:
CD/DVD drive n/a
ExpressCard reader
Fan
Fingerprint reader :!:
PC card reader
SD card reader :?: transfer speeds < 300kB/s
SIM card slot :!:
Smart card reader
Suspend & resume ✔
Webcam ✔ works with webcamd(8)
Ports Mini DisplayPort :!:
FireWire
HDMI :!:
Thunderbolt :!:
USB ✔
VGA
Sound Headphone jack ✔ *see tweaks
Microphone jack :!:
Speakers ✔
Internal Mic :?:
Last update: FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE-p10 GENERIC amd64
  • 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

The headphone jack may require this in /boot/device.hints to work:

hint.hdaa.0.nid33.config="as=1 seq=15"    #T470s headphone jack

and the actual hdaa address can be found with sysctl -a | grep Headphones


  • laptops/thinkpad_t470s.txt
  • Last modified: 2020/10/01 17:54
  • by AndrewPayne