Skip to content

Patches to get the Lenovo X1 Tablet working with Linux

Notifications You must be signed in to change notification settings

Lunm0us/linux-tp1gen3

Folders and files

NameName
Last commit message
Last commit date

Latest commit

 

History

14 Commits
 
 
 
 
 
 

Repository files navigation

Linux support patches for Lenovo X1 Tablet 3rd generation

ACPI Patches

Caution: These steps will modify your computers firmware. This may break your device and/or attached hardware.

For S3 sleep state and the power/volume buttons of the device to work the ACPI DSDT tables must be modified. The patches contained in this repository incorporate the information from the Delta-Xi Blog

Prerequisites:

  • Intel ACPI Source Language compiler which is usually provided by the acpica or acpica-tools package

  • make

  • one of the following BIOS versions:

    • N1ZET76W (1.32)
    • N1ZET79W (1.35)

    other versions may work but may also require changes to the patch. The current BIOS version can be checked via

    sudo dmidecode  --string "bios-version"
    
  • A Lenovo X1 Tablet 3rd Generation. To check if you have one of these devices you may run

    sudo dmidecode  --string "system-product-name"
    

    The output should beginn, according to the lenovo website with "20KJ" or "20KK". The device the patch was tested on returned "20KJ001NGE".

To apply the ACPI patches change to the acpi subdirectory and run make with the appropriate patch for your BIOS version. Choose between patch132 for version "1.32" and patch135 for version "1.35".

cd acpi
sudo make dsdt.dat
make patch135 compile
sudo make install

The patch should apply cleanly. If not you may patch the dsdt.dsl file by hand. Finally add the acpi_override file as another initrd to your bootloader configuration.

initrd=/boot/acpi_override mem_sleep_default=deep

Linux HID Patches

Caution: These steps will modify your kernel. Doing so might prevent your system from booting.

The attachable keyboard uses non standard keycodes for the functional keys and an additional USB endpoint for control of the LEDs. The provided sourcecode is a patched version of the upstream hid-lenovo module. For reference the patches (for the first generation device?) by Dennis Wassenberg were used. Furhtermore this repository contains a patched version of the upstream hid-multitouch module which fixes the pointstick for kernel versions > 5.4.11 (for details see here).

Prerequisites:

  • make
  • GCC C compiler
  • Linux headers/source for the currently installed kernel

Arch Linux installation

When running Arch Linux you may build the DKMS package and install it via pacman:

cd hid
makepkg .
pacman -U hid-lenovo-tp1gen3-dkms-0.2.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

If you install the compiled module keep in mind, that you have to recompile the module every time your kernel is updated.

cd hid
make
sudo make install

As the multitouch module is not an extension but a replacement of the upstream module, the latter must be blacklisted. While the Arch Linux package should add the necessary lines automatically it might be necessary to regenerate the initramfs as the original module also must be replaced there. For details see here.

Ubuntu installation (DKMS)

  1. download and extract linux-tp1gen3-master
cd linux-tp1gen3-master
  1. edit ./hid/src/dkms.conf Replace the placeholders @_PKGBASE@ and @VERSION@ with the actual values being hid-lenovo-tp1gen3 and the current version (e.g. 0.2.0). The version can be determined from the PKBUILD file.

  2. install the DKMS package

sudo apt-get install build-essential dkms 
  1. copy files
sudo mkdir -p /usr/src/hid-lenovo-tp1gen3-<version>
sudo cp -a ./hid/src/* /usr/src/hid-lenovo-tp1gen3-<version> 
  1. build and install
sudo dkms add -m hid-lenovo-tp1gen3 -v <version>
sudo dkms build -m hid-lenovo-tp1gen3 -v <version>
sudo dkms install -m hid-lenovo-tp1gen3 -v <version>

Check if the module was successfully added to dkms

~$ dkms status
hid-lenovo-tp1gen3, 0.2.0, 5.6.14, x86_64: installed
  1. blacklist the old module Add blacklist hid-multitouch to the file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf Then reboot.

Contributions

Thanks goes to

  • bitbacchus for writing the Ubuntu Installation section
  • parenthetical for providing the BIOS patch for version 1.35

Additional Information

About

Patches to get the Lenovo X1 Tablet working with Linux

Topics

Resources

Stars

Watchers

Forks

Releases

No releases published

Packages

No packages published