From rubin at starset.net Tue Apr 17 02:28:22 2018 From: rubin at starset.net (Rubin Abdi) Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 17:28:22 -0700 Subject: [ltp] T480s with Debian, and keyboard and star function keys Message-ID: Hi there. First off the T480s is a fantastic machine and I'm glad I upgraded from the X1 Carbon. It's got the same footprint as the X1, looks approximately the same (my coworkers couldn't even tell I got a new machine), is a tiny bit heavier. On the plus side it can (currently) get maxed out to 24GB of RAM, and offers a full size ethernet port that folds (I remember some old Sony laptops having this feature). Anyhow it's physically and under the hood it turned out to be a better buy than the X1 6th gen. I was able to pull out my old SSD from the X1 and stuff it into the T480s. Debian Sid booted up normally and pretty much everything worked. The only quirks I hit were... - Things that use a webcam seem to default to the IR camera that came with this machine first, and need to be told otherwise. - When I upgraded drives to something newer/faster, I had no idea linux/Debian would toss it into /dev/nvme0n1 instead of /dev/sda, which confused me for part of a day. The last issue I'm dealing with is I've classically assigned whatever special function keys are alternates to F10 - F12 for media previous track, pause/play, next track, however xev (and everything else that I've tried) doesn't read anything when I press the keyboard function key (alternate to F11), or start (alternate to F12). The Bluetooth function key (alternate to F10) does register and with KDE I can assign it to things. I'm wondering if anyone else with current gen ThinkPads with this keyboard configuration have also hit this issue and have a solution. Thanks! -- Rubin rubin at starset.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From oub.oub.oub at gmail.com Sun Apr 29 12:03:50 2018 From: oub.oub.oub at gmail.com (Uwe Brauer) Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2018 12:03:50 +0200 Subject: [ltp] X1 6th generation and X280 (is the X280 now a ultrabook)? Message-ID: <87fu3e2ut5.fsf@gmail.com> Hi I have successfully installed and used linux for the X41/60s and 200s. Since a couple of month I am using an X1 5th generation (it is a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon 14" Intel i5-6200U, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD, I presume it is 5 generation) with Ubuntu 16.06 and like the features of that ultrabook, nice screen, fast, light thin, long batteries life (I however don't like the keyboard that much nor the fact that I can't easily change batteries/hard disk/RAM). It was my understanding that the X200 series had a smaller screen, were bulkier, but batteries/hard-disk/RAM could be changed. Now a friend of mine wants to buy an ultabook like X thinkpad. To my surprise it seems that the new X280 is much more a ultra book than the older ones. It is much thinner than previous models, however it has the same weight as the X1, but a smaller screen so I presume it is not as slime. Somebody has experience with that model? What is about running Linux on either the X280 or the X1 6th Generation? Thinkwiki does not provide information on any of these models. Thanks and regards Uwe Brauer -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 5041 bytes Desc: not available URL: From monnier at iro.umontreal.ca Mon Apr 30 02:50:09 2018 From: monnier at iro.umontreal.ca (Stefan Monnier) Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2018 20:50:09 -0400 Subject: [ltp] X1 6th generation and X280 (is the X280 now a ultrabook)? References: <87fu3e2ut5.fsf@gmail.com> Message-ID: > that ultrabook, nice screen, fast, light thin, long batteries life (I > however don't like the keyboard that much nor the fact that I can't > easily change batteries/hard disk/RAM). I changed the SSD in an 5th gen X1 without any trouble. It's a bit less straightforward than with an X60, admittedly, but it's quite tolerable. The RAM OTOH is soldered on (which is why I bought mine with the RAM maxed out, since in my experience the amount of RAM is the limiting factor in the long run). I think the battery can also be changed without too much trouble, tho it does require opening the case (similar to changing the SSD). Stefan