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  • Re: Installation of Debian 12 on ThinkPadX1 Carbon Generation 12

    From Andy Smith@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 4 00:50:01 2025
    Hi,

    On Tue, Jun 03, 2025 at 03:10:02PM -0700, rgta8478jo96 wrote:
    I have recently installed Debian 12 on the band new ThikPadX1 Generation

    12 laptop.

    I am going to assume you mean the 10th generation X1 Carbon since that
    is the newest one of that line. Please can you check and confirm if this
    is the case?

    If it turns out that you DON'T mean the 10th gen X1 Carbon then I think
    my advice below is still reasonable but I'd want to find some example of
    it actually working for someone else first. It is still, regrettably,
    entirely possible to buy a laptop that has major functionality not
    working in Linux.

    Installation went well and the system is working BUT the

    following is not working: sound, microphone, HDMI, and Wi-Fi.

    Not what I would consider to be "working", but I suppose you just meant
    it boots and could get into a graphical desktop!

    I do not have this particular model but it seems that Arch users have
    it almost entirely working:

    https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Lenovo_ThinkPad_X1_Carbon_(Gen_10)#Audio

    You are very likely going to need a newer kernel, firmware-linux-free, firmware-linux-nonfree and perhaps others (note the mention of soundcard firmware).

    I'd probably start by trying bookworm-backports versions of these. If no
    joy I'd try booting the forthcoming trixie installer in live mode to
    see if that works better. To be honest for a new install today
    especially on a laptop I'd probably go straight for trixie anyway as
    it's very close to release as stable.

    Thanks,
    Andy

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  • From DM@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jun 6 23:10:01 2025
    Hi,

    just a small addition, as I have installed Debian 12 on a Lenovo X1 Carbon Gen 12.

    Hi,

    On Tue, Jun 03, 2025 at 03:10:02PM -0700, rgta8478jo96 wrote:
    I have recently installed Debian 12 on the band new ThikPadX1 Generation

    12 laptop.

    I am going to assume you mean the 10th generation X1 Carbon since that
    is the newest one of that line. Please can you check and confirm if this
    is the case?


    I think you confused this with the 2in1 convertible X1 laptop which is at Gen 10, but the "normal" X1 Carbon" is now at Gen 13. But not really important.


    Installation went well and the system is working BUT the

    following is not working: sound, microphone, HDMI, and Wi-Fi.


    I do not have this particular model but it seems that Arch users have

    it almost entirely working:
    https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Lenovo_ThinkPad_X1_Carbon_(Gen_10)#Audi
    o

    You are very likely going to need a newer kernel, firmware-linux-free, firmware-linux-nonfree and perhaps others (note the mention of soundcard firmware).

    I'd probably start by trying bookworm-backports versions of these. If no
    joy I'd try booting the forthcoming trixie installer in live mode to
    see if that works better. To be honest for a new install today
    especially on a laptop I'd probably go straight for trixie anyway as
    it's very close to release as stable.



    I can confirm that using the newer kernel from Backports solved the issues you reported. Wifi, sound, hdmi are all working with the backports kernel of Debian 12 on the X1 Carbon Gen 12.

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