Lenovo ThinkPad X13 Gen 1 (AMD)
| Hardware | PCI/USB ID | Working? |
|---|---|---|
| Touchpad | Yes | |
| J-Mouse | Yes | |
| Keyboard | Yes | |
| Video | 8086:2723 | Yes |
| Webcam | 04f2:b6d0 | Yes |
| Ethernet | 10ec:8168 | Yes |
| Bluetooth | 8086:2723 | Yes |
| Power management | Yes | |
| USB Ports | 10ec:816d | Yes |
| SD-Card slot | | Yes |
| HDMI | Yes | |
| Audio | 1022:15e3 | Yes |
| Wireless | 8086:2723 | Yes |
| Fingerprint reader | 06cb:00bd | Yes |
| TPM | Untested |
Installation
No special steps needed for installation.
BIOS
It is recommended to run the latest BIOS version, which is currently 1.36.
The BIOS update can be downloaded as an ISO image from the X13 support page and loaded to a USB stick.
Additionally, there is a BIOS option for customizing the Power profile that by default is tuned to Windows 10 and is recommended to be set to Linux. This setting has been shown to reduce issues with #Power Management.
Accessibility
The BIOS offers two modes of operation, GUI and Simple Text.
The GUI can be navigated to some degree via the keyboard. Left and Right arrow keys to move the selection and Space to activate.
For full keyboard support switching to simple text would likely be better.
That can be accomplished by:
- Selecting and activating Config on the left side under Setup
- Right arrowing until the drop down to the right of Setup UI is selected
- active the drop down and select Simple Text
- F10 (save and exit)
Hardware
Lightdm
Lightdm seems to have an issue with amdgpu loading too late. Use KMS to load the video driver into initramfs
Brightness control
As of kernel 5.9 use the native brightness controller
Audio
PulseAudio seems to work fine without manual intervention, but the ALSA audio device chosen by default may not be correct. You may need to change the default device.
You should remember to unmute the volume using the alsamixer interactive application.
$ alsamixer
You may need to make your settings permanent with the alsactl application.
# alsactl store
Webcam
If the integrated webcam is not accessible as /dev/video* and does not appear in the output of , installing may help.
Firmware
fwupd does not support this device yet.
Power Management
Various issues have been reported with resuming from suspend. In order to mitigate them follow the best practices described in #BIOS.
On systems that use full-disk encryption with sd-encrypt it might be preferred to switch to using the mkinitcpio hook.
Function keys
| Key | Visible?1 | Marked?2 | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
Fn | Yes | ||
| Yes | Enables Fn lock | ||
| Yes | Yes | ||
| Yes | Yes | XF86AudioLowerVolume | |
| Yes | Yes | ||
| Yes | Yes | XF86AudioMicMute | |
| Yes | Monitor Brightness Down | ||
| Yes | Monitor Brightness Up | ||
| Yes | Yes | ||
| Yes | Yes | XF86WLAN3 | |
| Yes | |||
| Yes | |||
| Yes | |||
| Yes | Yes | ||
| Yes | Enables/disables keyboard backlight | ||
| Yes | 3 | ||
Fn+B | Yes | ||
| Yes | |||
Fn+K | Yes | ||
| Yes | |||
| Yes | |||
| Yes | Alt_L + SysRq | ||
| Yes | Yes |
- The key is visible via and similar tools
- The physical key has a symbol on it, which describes its function
- systemd-logind handles this by default