Panasonic Let's Note CF-RZ6

This is a subnotebook manufactured for the Japanese domestic market. They can be bought in Akihabara for very little money. It has a higher-resolution screen than some ThinkPads more than three times the weight, and the hardware isn't too exotic. It's a great on-call machine.

This page is a work in progress.


1. Hardware

CPU

Intel Core i5-7Y54 @ 1.2 GHz, 3.20 GHz burst, dual core

Ethernet

Intel PRO/1000

Graphics

Intel HD Graphics 615

Memory

8 GiB DDR3L-1600

Screen

10.1-inch, 1920×1200, 215.63 HiDPI

Storage

128 GiB or 256 GiB eMMC SSD

Wireless

Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 8265

Audio

Realtek ALC256


2. Support overview

Component

Status

Details

Graphics

Graphical sessions

(./)

Works with drm-kmod and xf86-video-intel

Backlight (brightness) control

(./)

Using intel-backlight

Input devices

Touchpad

(./)

Scrolling, tap-to-click work

Media keys

Brightness keys

(./)

Using intel-backlight

Volume keys

(./)

Using [FN]+[F5]/[F6] out of the box

Network

Ethernet

(./)

em(4)

Wi-Fi

(./)

iwm(4) 802.11ac works as of 13.0-RELEASE

Other

Battery

(./)

apm(8) shows correct data

Bluetooth

/!\

To test

Fan

(./)

Auto-throttles correctly

SD card reader

/!\

To test

Suspend & resume

{i}

Works with extra config, see notes below

Ports

HDMI

(./)

USB

(./)

USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 ports work

VGA

(./)

Sound

Headphone jack

(./)

Microphone jack

/!\

To test

Speakers

(./)

pcm(8) detects

Internal Mic

/!\

To test

Last update: FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE GENERIC amd64

2.1. Legend

(./)

OK

{i}

Somewhat OK: requires additional tweaks, or suboptimal

/!\

Present, but status unknown or untested

{X}

Inoperable


3. Notes

3.1. Suspend/resume

Works from FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE onwards, with these considerations:

  1. Set hw.acpi.lid_switch_state=S3 in /etc/sysctl.conf.

  2. Video will not return on resume unless drm-kmod is used. You can still cleanly reboot by typing shutdown -r now blind, or SSH in if you lock yourself out.

  3. Trackpad will not always return on resume unless you add hint.psm.0.flags="0x6000" to /boot/loader.conf to enable HOOKRESUME and INITAFTERSUSPEND. Thanks Kazutaka Yokota for explaining in the psm(4) manpage, and Jung-uk Kim in freebsd-mobile.

  4. As far as I (RubenSchade) can tell, Wi-Fi and Ethernet both work after resuming without further config.

3.2. dmesg


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Laptops/Panasonic_Lets_Note_CF-RZ6 (last edited 2022-01-03T07:11:44+0000 by RubenSchade)