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I run last year’s X1 Carbon and it worked flawlessly with Debian out of the box. Battery life is excellent (3.5W isle with medium brightness) and the only thing
by lorenzhs 9y ago
I run last year’s X1 Carbon and it worked flawlessly with Debian out of the box. Battery life is excellent (3.5W isle with medium brightness) and the only thing that doesn’t work with Linux is the fingerprint scanner. It’s a great device that I would definitely recommend. ThinkPads generally do really well with Linux. And the keyboards are even better than Dell’s ;)
- igravious 9y agoWhen you `lsusb' what device id and description does it give for the fingerprint reader?
- lorenzhs 9y agoI don’t have the device at hand but I’m pretty sure it’s a Validity Sensor 138a:0097. There’s an effort to reverse engineer the Windows drivers for this class of fingerprint sensors at https://github.com/nmikhailov/Validity90 https://github.com/nmikhailov/Validity90 but honestly I don’t care much about fingerprint readers on a laptop.
- lorenzhs 9y agoFor the record, I checked and 138a:0097 is in fact the correct vendor/product ID.
- deepbreath 9y ago+1. Also using Debian on a X1 Carbon 5th gen (2017). Everything except the fingerprint reader (which I don't much care for) works perfectly.