Lenovo ThinkPad P15 Gen 1

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Hardware	PCI/USB ID	Working?
Touchpad		Yes
Trackpoint		Yes
Keyboard		Yes
GPU (NVIDIA)	`10de:1fb9`	Yes
GPU (Intel)	`8086:9bc4`	Yes
Webcam	`04f2:b6be`	Yes
Ethernet	`8086:06f0`	Yes
Bluetooth	`8087:0026`	Yes
SD-card reader		Yes
Audio	`8086:06c8`	Yes
Wireless	`8086:06f0`	Yes
Fingerprint reader	`06cb:00bd`	Yes

Discrete GPU

This model uses PRIME for combining the integrated and the dedicated GPU. As the external graphic ports are wired to the discrete GPU, drivers for the discrete GPU need to be present in order to use them. However, no special X.org configuration should be necessary, as xrandr should detect the ports automatically. If not, follow the instructions in PRIME#Reverse PRIME.

Fan control

The default operation of fans is noisy, as they are basically at medium power all the time. The thinkfan (AUR link) program can be used to create a quieter operation, while retaining reasonable temperatures.

Here is an example /etc/thinkfan.conf configuration:

/etc/thinkfan.conf

sensors:
  # NVIDIA GPU
  - nvml: 01:00.0

  # acpitz
  # crit = 128°C
  - hwmon: /sys/class/hwmon
    name: acpitz
    indices: [1]
    correction: [0]

  # pch_cometlake
  - hwmon: /sys/devices/virtual/thermal/thermal_zone7
    name: pch_cometlake
    indices: [1]
    correction: [0]

  # nvme
  # high = 85°C
  - hwmon: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/0000:02:00.0/hwmon
    name: nvme
    indices: [2, 3]
    correction: [0, 0]

  # nvme
  # high = 85°C
  - hwmon: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/0000:55:00.0/hwmon
    name: nvme
    indices: [2, 3]
    correction: [0, 0]

  # coretemp
  # high = 100°C, crit = 100°C.
  - hwmon: /sys/devices/platform/coretemp.0/hwmon
    name: coretemp
    indices: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
    correction: [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]

  # thinkpad
  - hwmon: /sys/devices/platform/thinkpad_hwmon/hwmon
    name: thinkpad
    indices: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
    correction: [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]

  # thinkpad
  - hwmon: /sys/devices/platform/thinkpad_hwmon/hwmon
    name: thinkpad
    indices: [7]
    correction: [0]

  # thinkpad
  - hwmon: /sys/devices/platform/thinkpad_hwmon/hwmon
    name: thinkpad
    optional: true
    indices: [8]
    correction: [0]

  # iwlwifi_1
  - hwmon: /sys/class/hwmon
    name: iwlwifi_1
    optional: true
    indices: [1]
    correction: [0]

fans:
  - tpacpi: /proc/acpi/ibm/fan

levels:
  - [0, 0, 60]
  - [2, 60, 65]
  - [3, 65, 70]
  - [5, 70, 75]
  - [6, 75, 80]
  - [7, 80, 85]
  - ["level disengaged", 85, 255]

Enabling Turbo boost

By default, the CPU power governor does not allow CPU frequencies to reach turbo boost speeds. This can be fixed via, for instance, cpupower-gui^AUR.

This can be changed by modifying the file /etc/cpupower_gui.conf:

/etc/cpupower_gui.conf

[Profile]
#This setting was: profile = Balanced
profile = Performance

And, of course, running the cpupower-gui service:

# sudo systemctl start cpupower-gui
# sudo systemctl enable cpupower-gui

Firmware

This Device has fwupd support.

Known issues

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Reason: The sentence is cut-off (Discuss in Talk:Lenovo ThinkPad P15 Gen 1)

Disabling the built-in screen can lead to severely degraded graphics performance on external screens (around 2 FPS). This is probably