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Ubuntu on the ThinkPad X13s Review

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Re: Ubuntu on the ThinkPad X13s Review

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Post by mdaniel »

> To my surprise the fingerprint reader works well and I can enroll my fingers! It even unlocks the system the system at the login screen too!

well, shit, that's better than my Thinkpad X1 on Ubuntu where they never worked

I actually came very close to getting that exact same setup (from the Amazon Refreshed store) but waved it off because I could not get Chrome (not -ium, I mean the real one) nor Zoom which for doing worky stuff is "well, good luck". Yes, I'm aware one can join zoom meetings from the browser but with eyes toward that "chromIUM" part I felt it would be really, really rolling the dice, and that's before I knew that the webcam doesn't work

there have been a few other threads on this, but it's great to have a more recent version: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=thinkpad+x13s

Re: Ubuntu on the ThinkPad X13s Review

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mdaniel wrote: post #4

> To my surprise the fingerprint reader works well and I can enroll my fingers! It even unlocks the system the system at the login screen too! well, shit, that's better than my Thinkpad X1 on Ubuntu where they never worked I actually came very close to getting that exact same setup (from the Amazon Refreshed store) but waved it off because I could not get Chrome (not -ium, I mean the real one) nor Zoom which for doin…

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Re: Ubuntu on the ThinkPad X13s Review

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Post by somat »

Wrt the non-func camera... that is strange. As much as I like to rag on microsoft, I thought they solved this problem with their uvideo spec.

Update found a dmesg. I am used to obsd dmesgs and am probably reading this one wrong. It looks like there is an on chip video stream accelerator(qcom-venus) that is not initializing correctly. is the camera attached directly to this? or does it act as an accelerator for any video stream?

https://github.com/altacus/lenovo-x13s/blob/main/dmesg-6.5.y...

Re: Ubuntu on the ThinkPad X13s Review

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Post by numpad0 »

somat wrote: post #7

Wrt the non-func camera... that is strange. As much as I like to rag on microsoft, I thought they solved this problem with their uvideo spec. Update found a dmesg. I am used to obsd dmesgs and am probably reading this one wrong. It looks like there is an on chip video stream accelerator(qcom-venus) that is not initializing correctly. is the camera attached directly to this? or does it act as an accelerator for any vi…

It's a Snapdragon device so maybe through MIPI or something?
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