Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (Gen 3)

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Hardware PCI/USB ID Working?
Touchpad Yes
Touchscreen Yes
TrackPoint Yes
Keyboard Yes
Video 8086:1616 Yes
Webcam 04ca:7049 Yes
Ethernet Untested
Bluetooth 8087:0a2a Yes
Audio 8086:160c Yes
Wireless 8086:095b Yes
Mobile broadband Yes
Fingerprint Reader 138a:0017 Yes

Firmware

fwupd does not support this device yet.

To update the firmware on the device, get the latest bootable CD and follow the steps in Flashing BIOS from Linux#Bootable optical disk emulation.

Audio

Some users have experienced problems with white noise and popping/cracking sounds when audio is first played and when the computer is turned off.

To fix this, blacklist snd_hda_codec_realtek.

Mobile broadband

EM7345: SIM-Problems [1]

If you have trouble with the ES7345 set the following kernel module parameter and reboot:[2] cdc_ncm prefer_mbim=Y

GPS

N5321 is unknown EM7345 can output GPS using AT-Commands. You can use gpsd-tcp to interface to gpsd.

Function keys

Key Visible?1 Marked?2 Effect
Fn+Esc Yes Yes Enables Fn lock
Fn Yes No KEY_WAKEUP
Fn+F1 Yes Yes KEY_MUTE
Fn+F2 Yes Yes KEY_VOLUMEDOWN
Fn+F3 Yes Yes KEY_VOLUMEUP
Fn+F4 Yes Yes KEY_F20
Fn+F5 Yes Yes KEY_BRIGHTNESSDOWN
Fn+F6 Yes Yes KEY_BRIGHTNESSUP
Fn+F7 Yes Yes KEY_SWITCHVIDEOMODE
Fn+F8 Yes Yes KEY_WLAN
Fn+F9 Yes Yes KEY_CONFIG
Fn+F10 Yes Yes KEY_SEARCH
Fn+F11 Yes Yes KEY_SCALE
Fn+F12 Yes Yes KEY_FILE
Fn+End Yes No KEY_INSERT
Fn+4 Yes No KEY_SLEEP
Fn+Tab Yes No KEY_FULL_SCREEN
Fn+P Yes No KEY_PAUSE
Fn+B Yes No KEY_PAUSE
Fn+Space Yes Yes Change keyboard backlight
  1. The key is visible to xev and similar tools
  2. The physical key has a symbol on it, which describes its function

Touchpad

See Touchpad Synaptics#Touchpad does not work after resuming from hibernate/suspend.

See also