Lenovo Thinkpad T14s 1st Gen - 20T1

[Martin Iturbide]

Hello

I got my hands on a Lenovo Thinkpad T14s 1st Gen - 20T1 (20T1S0D400 - Intel i7-10610U CPU). I installed ArcaOS 5.1.0 (UEFI) and it is now booting in dual boot with Windows 11.

I'm still missing to play more with it but I found two things:

1) Trackpoint has an issue with AMouse driver. The trackpad works find and click fine. But on the trackpoint, if I click the right left mouse button, while my other finger is still on the trackpoint (possible making a light movement), it will produce a double click. Have you experienced that?

2) The machine does not has a visible ethernet port. But it recognized a Ethernet adapter (E1000B.os2)  (Intel Ethernet Connection (10) I219-LM / 8086:0D4E) on the install procedure. I installed it and it does not give any warning on boot. I have no idea if it is for an external USB-C Ethernet thing. Any ideas?

FYI: Here I'm writing the Hardware Review on the Wiki: https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php/Lenovo_Thinkpad_T14s_1st_Gen_-_20T1


Regards

[Neil Waldhauer]

My experience with Lenovo Thinkpad T14 was that it had an RJ45 Ethernet port. Perhaps all models do not have it. I had it before ArcaOS 5.1 came out, but after all the betas expired, so I did not take a testlog.

[Sigurd Fastenrath]

Congratulations, Martin.

How much RAM of the first 4 GB is visible to und usable by ARcaOS?

Thank you!

[Martin Iturbide]

Hello.

About the Ethernet thing, this machine has a "Ethernet extension connector". I need to learn about that.

Sigurd, about the memory, I checked the reports very fast it was like 2GB, but let me check the report again and post back.

Regards

[Martin Iturbide]

Hi again.

Here it is report from testlog when I was booting from the USB Memory.

Loader's physical memory layout:
  Memory below 1MB: 624.00 KiB
  Memory between 1MB and 4GB: 2.42 GiB
  Memory below 4GB: 2.42 GiB
  Memory above 4GB: 13.21 GiB
Kernel's physical memory layout (4):
  From 00000000 to 00032FFF size=204.00 KiB
  From 00034000 to 00036FFF size=12.00 KiB
  From 0003F000 to 0009BFFF size=372.00 KiB
  From 00100000 to A89BFFFF size=2.63 GiB
Physical memory: 2.63 GiB
Available memory: 2.38 GiB
Available Private memory: 302.43 MiB
Available Shared memory: 255.06 MiB
Virtual Address Limit: 1024

Sigurd, let me know if this answer your question, or you need some other information.

Regards

[Sigurd Fastenrath]

Thank you Martin,

2.3 GB ist a very good value compared to other mordern Laptops, all in all it is better compared what I usually get, but less than one would like to have/need for the "big" RAM Applications.

- Installation not possible on Thinkpad X1 carbon 10th Gen.

- each 1GB on Thinkpad T470 and T480, but both of those have discret Grafics, so may 1.5GB possilbe with only Chipset grafic.

Thanks again.

[Martin Iturbide]

1) Trackpoint has an issue with AMouse driver. The trackpad works find and click fine. But on the trackpoint, if I click the right left mouse button, while my other finger is still on the trackpoint (possible making a light movement), it will produce a double click. Have you experienced that?

I think I found more about this issue. I think it is my hand palm pressing against the "mousepad" (Lenovo calls it "Trackpad"), if I raise my palm in a very uncomfortable way to don't touch it, the trackpoint left click works as expected everytime. In Windows I don't have this issue, I guess there is some software control to improve this issue. Maybe a workarround is to disable the "Trackpad" in the BIOS.

Regards

[Andi B.]

Maybe a workarround is to disable the "Trackpad" in the BIOS.

Please report back if you can disable the Touchpad in BIOS and if Trackpoint and associated (mouse)keys still work. Thanks.

[Martin Iturbide]

Hello Andi

I disabled the "Trackpad" (mousepad) on the UEFI BIOS (Check picture), it was very simple.
The Trackpoint work fine now, the associated keys seems to be working. and I'm happy for the moment.

I was checking more about the Trackpoint/Trackpad on the Windows 11 partition. This device is ELAN branded, and what we are missing on ArcaOS would be the capacity of turn on/off the Trackpoint or Trackpad with software. On the Trackpad we are missing more features for settings, but the one that seems to do the trick here is the "Palmcheck" function on Windows (Check picture). Sadly we don't have it on ArcaOS.

Regards

[Martin Iturbide]

Hello again.

HDMI video output works only if you select on the BIOS "Boot Display Device = External Display". This will show in my case the AN Boot Manager, ArcaOS loading and later the desktop. It will not show ArcaOS on the Thinkpad display at the same time. If you power off, disconnect the external display, and boot again, the video will show back on the Thinkpad display.

I guess this is good, I tested here with a monitor, but I think it will work with a projector, but not both screens at the same time.

Regards

[Martin Iturbide]

Hello

Today I tried the webcam with Wim's "UVC Webcam Server"

I run "webcam /n" to start the webcam, the webcam led lights up, (which it is good), but when I run "wmvideo /n" does not show any output.

I got this error on "webcam /n"

[C:\PROGRAMS\WebCam]webcam /n
started.
format:yuyv
 acquire webcam
 set configuration
 negotiate video format
 obtain video format
 commit video format
 set video alt interface
 starting iso video
/n server (video) On-Line.
[00000280]
obtain video error.

Regards

[Martin Iturbide]

Hello

I completed the description of this machine on the OS2World wiki.
https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php/Lenovo_ThinkPad_T14s_1st_Gen_-_20T1

I will try next to get the ethernet port cable to confirm if the network works. (ThinkPad Ethernet. Extension Adapter Gen 2 - 4X90Q84427)

Regards

[Wim Brul]

Hi Martin,

Can you post the USB hardware report of the builtin webcam?

Regards,
Wim

[Martin Iturbide]

Thanks Wim for taking a look

I'm attaching the lsusb -v report of the webcam. Let me know if this is the one you are looking for.

Regards

[Wim Brul]

Hi Martin,

I'm attaching the lsusb -v report of the webcam. Let me know if this is the one you are looking for. Thanks.

Yes, that is the one I was looking for.

I am not sure what is the best way to tackle this. Why don't we start testing whether or not my latest development version works?

Run webcam and wmvideo (so without parameters) to test with named pipe.

Regards,
Wim