Thinkpad T470s

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


Hardware


Support overview

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

{i}

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

{i}

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

{i}

Last update: FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE-p10 GENERIC amd64

Legend

(./) OK

{i} Somewhat OK: requires additional tweaking or works worse than expected

/!\ Present but status unknown or untested

{X} Does not work

nothing Not sure if present


Tweaks

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



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Laptops/Thinkpad_T470s (last edited 2020-10-01T17:54:25+0000 by AndrewPayne)