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I recently received a ThinkPad X395 as a donation, my first ThinkPad X-series laptop. I was really looking for something with the Ryzen 3000 series CPU, and that is what the X395 includes. The first thing I did was upgrade the BIOS using geteltorito to make a bootable USB, which pamela@ wrote a nice blog post about.

my desk and x395's home
  • CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 3700U w/ Vega 10 - 4c/8t @ 2.3GHz
  • RAM: 8GB
  • SSD: 512G Samsung M.2 NVMe
  • LCD: 13.3" 1080p IPS

What works!

So far, everything I've tested!

  • Wireless: Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 9260 supported by iwm(4)
  • Touchpad/TrackPoint: Elan ClickPad (version 4, firmware 0x7f3001) supported by pms(4), TrackPoint and physical mouse buttons work
  • Touchscreen: Works by default, USB uhidev(4) "Raydium Corp. Raydium Touch System"
  • Audio: azalia(4) device, Realtek/0x0257 codec
  • Webcam: uvideo(4) device, works with video(1). Thinkshutter switch for privacy.
  • Power management: apmd_flags=-A works (better on 6.7-current)
  • Accelerated X11/3D: amdgpu(4) works, needs amdgpu firmware
  • AMD SVM/vmd(8): Works, enabled in BIOS by default
  • ACPI S3 (RAM): lid close and zzz suspend/resume works
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What doesn't, or is untested

  • ACPI S4 (Hibernate): Untested.
  • Ethernet: Realtek 8168 attaches as re(4), no RJ45 connector, needs ThinkPad Ethernet Extension Adapter Gen 2 (already ordered, awaiting shipment)
  • Bluetooth: OpenBSD doesn't support it, so untested.

Many thanks to Alex Holst for the donation!

And here's the dmesg!

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