ThinkPad X1 Extreme

Don’t buy. The X1E Gen2 is horrible. It had a serious keyboard issue and many other drivers issues. I had one and Lenovo replaced it for a Gen3 under warranty (which I still have, and works okay).

When I mention drivers I am talking about the Lenovo drivers. I've tried the X1E driver from Lenovo (unedited) and it does not work. It just gives basic PS2 mouse functionality.

I have a ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 5 which was released in 2022, so I doubt age would have anything to do with this. But I do see a pattern where the most badly affected machines, such as those with boot problems, seem to all have NVIDIA GPUs. My ThinkPad which has an RTX 3080 Ti wasn’t this badly aff

It shouldn't have worked in the first place: https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_X1_Extreme_2nd_Gen/ThinkPad_X1_Extreme_2nd_Gen_Spec.pdf Though if it did work previously and now doesn't, it's probably the firmware bug. If it's the firmware bug try and update the firmware before the po

Caution to the current state of Linux and x1e/x1p. The kernel is getting patches/device trees for lots of the various laptops, but they may not be complete quite yet or for your specific make/model. For example, for Lenovo, I believe the most complete device trees are the thinkpad t14 and the yoga s

I’m unable to log in to any user account when both of my 16:9 1440p monitors are connected. The screen stays black indefinitely unless I unplug one monitor before logging in. Is this a known Wayland issue? I’m using Ubuntu 24.04 on a ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 5.