Lenovo ThinkPad T460s
| Device | Status |
| Intel graphics | Yes |
| Wireless | Yes |
| ALSA | no beep |
| TrackPoint | Yes |
| Touchpad | Yes |
| Webcam | Yes |
| Fingerprint Sensor | WIP |
| Mobile Broadband | Yes |
| Bluetooth | Yes |
| Smartcard Reader | Yes |
This article covers the installation and configuration of Arch Linux on a Lenovo T460s laptop.
For a general overview of laptop-related articles and recommendations, see Laptop.
Contents
Hardware
lspci returns something like:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Skylake Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 08) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 520 (rev 07) 00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Skylake Gaussian Mixture Model 00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP USB 3.0 xHCI Controller (rev 21) 00:14.2 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Thermal subsystem (rev 21) 00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP CSME HECI #1 (rev 21) 00:16.3 Serial controller: Intel Corporation Device 9d3d (rev 21) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 9d10 (rev f1) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 9d12 (rev f1) 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #5 (rev f1) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP LPC Controller (rev 21) 00:1f.2 Memory controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PMC (rev 21) 00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio (rev 21) 00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP SMBus (rev 21) 00:1f.6 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection I219-LM (rev 21) 02:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS522A PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01) 04:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 8260 (rev 3a) 05:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd NVMe SSD Controller (rev 01)
lsusb returns something like:
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 17ef:1012 Lenovo Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 008: ID 138a:0090 Validity Sensors, Inc. Bus 001 Device 007: ID 04f2:b52c Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd Bus 001 Device 005: ID 8087:0a2b Intel Corp. Bus 001 Device 003: ID 058f:9540 Alcor Micro Corp. AU9540 Smartcard Reader Bus 001 Device 006: ID 192f:0416 Avago Technologies, Pte. ADNS-5700 Optical Mouse Controller (3-button) Bus 001 Device 004: ID 17ef:1011 Lenovo Bus 001 Device 002: ID 17ef:1012 Lenovo Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Configuration
flip_done timed out freezes
See this thread for some discussion. You can either move back to a <4.8 kernel by using linux-lts, or add the following parameter to your kernel command line, which seems to help (it disables S-Video, but there is no such connector on a T460s):
video=SVIDEO-1:d
Fingerprint Sensor
The fingerprint reader included with this model `138a:0090 Validity Sensors, Inc` currently lacks a linux driver. libfprint bugreport. Synaptics (which has acquired 'Validity Sensors') has unofficially said that they cannot disclose the protocol, but may possibly release a binary driver.
Open source Linux driver is being developed by reverse engineering the Windows driver [1]. Based on this work an experimental fprint driver was developed: libfprint-vfs009x-gitAUR [2].
ALSA Beep
There is no "beep" input to the snd_hda_intel device, so beeps generated by terminal emulators etc. are not played. As a workaround, PulseAudio can be configured to pick up X11 bell events, see PulseAudio#X11 Bell Events.
Function keys
Fn+Esc to enable FnLk which will make your function keys work.
Video Issues
With newer kernels (>= 4.5), there seems to be video flickering, i.e. the screen occasionally goes black for what seems to be a single frame. See bug reports: [3] [4].
This can be worked around by using the i915.enable_rc6=0 kernel parameter [5] (cf. Intel graphics#Skylake support[broken link: invalid section])
Smartcard Reader
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 058f:9540 Alcor Micro Corp. AU9540 Smartcard Reader
Install the ccid and pcsc-tools packages, and enable the pcscd service. The reader should be visible when running pcsc_scan:
pcsc_scan PC/SC device scanner V 1.4.27 (c) 2001-2011, Ludovic Rousseau <ludovic.rousseau@free.fr> Compiled with PC/SC lite version: 1.8.16 Using reader plug'n play mechanism Scanning present readers... 0: Alcor Micro AU9560 00 00 Wed Sep 7 16:48:42 2016 Reader 0: Alcor Micro AU9560 00 00 Card state: Card removed,
Sound
If the sound quality is bad, updating /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf with
options snd-hda-intel model=tpt460
may improve it. These options are documented [6][7] in the Linux kernel.