Re: [External] Re: Fedora+Lenovo

2020-05-06 Thread Cătălin George Feștilă
It is a good idea to have a fast operating system when you buy a device. I don't think it will be bought like that due to the price in Europe. It was a Fedora wiki with hardware requirements, I don't know if it still exists. My opinion is that we still fit into this answer: What are the cheap

Re: [External] Re: Fedora+Lenovo

2020-05-05 Thread Carlos Mogas da Silva via devel
On 06/05/2020 01:37, Jared Dominguez wrote: > > And if you're a ThinkPad person, well clearly the choice is easier! It's > great to see > so much competition in the Linux laptop space these days! >   The year of the Linux on the desktop (laptop?) just arrived? O:-)

Re: [External] Re: Fedora+Lenovo

2020-05-05 Thread Jared Dominguez
On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 8:25 PM Michel Alexandre Salim < mic...@michel-slm.name> wrote: > On 5/1/20 6:19 AM, Jared Dominguez wrote: > > First post here for me too. I'm chiming in both as a newly minted Red > > Hat guy and as a former Dell Linux person. :) I'm always a Linux person > > though and

Re: [External] Re: Fedora+Lenovo

2020-05-05 Thread Michel Alexandre Salim
On 5/1/20 6:19 AM, Jared Dominguez wrote: First post here for me too. I'm chiming in both as a newly minted Red Hat guy and as a former Dell Linux person. :) I'm always a Linux person though and work with Mark as well as folks at other OEMs. Welcome! You won't happen to know if there's an

RE: [External] Re: Fedora+Lenovo

2020-05-05 Thread Mark Pearson
> From: Matthew Miller > Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2020 2:53 PM > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 05:38:41PM -0400, Zachary Snyder wrote: > > Thanks for reaching out to the mailing list. Not sure if this is the > > appropriate place for this email but I was wondering if fingerprint scanner > > support

Re: [External] Re: Fedora+Lenovo

2020-05-05 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 09:19:02AM -0400, Jared Dominguez wrote: > First post here for me too. I'm chiming in both as a newly minted Red Hat > guy and as a former Dell Linux person. :) I'm always a Linux person though > and work with Mark as well as folks at other OEMs. Welcome Jared! Glad to

Re: Fedora+Lenovo

2020-05-05 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 05:38:41PM -0400, Zachary Snyder wrote: > Thanks for reaching out to the mailing list. Not sure if this is the > appropriate place for this email but I was wondering if fingerprint scanner > support will be added in updates some how? > > I am running fedora 32 gnome on a

Re: [External] Re: Fedora+Lenovo

2020-05-03 Thread Todd Zullinger
Markus Larsson wrote: > While I'm fine with spending 2500€ of company money on a > work machine, I'm rather hesitant to spend that kind of > money on laptops for the kids :) Isn't that where some good, old-fashioned nepotism comes in? The kids get a title, a valuable first entry on their CV, and

Re: [External] Re: Fedora+Lenovo

2020-05-01 Thread James Szinger
On Fri, 1 May 2020 09:56:13 -0700 Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 09:48:51AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Fri, 2020-05-01 at 10:03 -0600, James Szinger wrote: > > > On Fri, 01 May 2020 13:19:50 +0200 > > > Markus Larsson wrote: > > > > > > > Well, I'm happy with that

Re: [External] Re: Fedora+Lenovo

2020-05-01 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 09:48:51AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Fri, 2020-05-01 at 10:03 -0600, James Szinger wrote: > > On Fri, 01 May 2020 13:19:50 +0200 > > Markus Larsson wrote: > > > > > Well, I'm happy with that answer. I rather have you say where things > > > will go is unclear than

Re: [External] Re: Fedora+Lenovo

2020-05-01 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2020-05-01 at 10:03 -0600, James Szinger wrote: > On Fri, 01 May 2020 13:19:50 +0200 > Markus Larsson wrote: > > > Well, I'm happy with that answer. I rather have you say where things > > will go is unclear than have some cookie cutter marketing answer. > > This answer helps me figure

Re: [External] Re: Fedora+Lenovo

2020-05-01 Thread James Szinger
On Fri, 01 May 2020 13:19:50 +0200 Markus Larsson wrote: > Well, I'm happy with that answer. I rather have you say where things > will go is unclear than have some cookie cutter marketing answer. > This answer helps me figure out where this is hopefully going and how > much to hope for it to

Re: [External] Re: Fedora+Lenovo

2020-05-01 Thread Vitaly Zaitsev via devel
On 01.05.2020 14:52, Mark Pearson wrote: > We have to meet some temperature safety requirements when the device is on > lap. Because Linux doesn't have support for that the device defaults to the > 'safer' > power setting and you see thermal throttling (and lower performance than > Windows).

Re: Fedora+Lenovo

2020-05-01 Thread James Cassell
On Fri, May 1, 2020, at 8:48 AM, Alexander Ploumistos wrote: > On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 2:38 PM James Cassell > wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, May 1, 2020, at 8:07 AM, Alexander Ploumistos wrote: > > > One thing that I'd like to see, is linux support for the "energy > > > manager" features - it's

Re: [External] Re: Fedora+Lenovo

2020-05-01 Thread Alexander Ploumistos
Hello again, On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 3:02 PM Mark Pearson wrote: > > > > From: Alexander Ploumistos > > Sent: Friday, May 1, 2020 8:07 AM > > > > One thing that I'd like to see, is linux support for the "energy > > manager" features - it's pretty much the only reason I've allowed > > windows to

Re: [External] Re: Fedora+Lenovo

2020-05-01 Thread Jared Dominguez
First post here for me too. I'm chiming in both as a newly minted Red Hat guy and as a former Dell Linux person. :) I'm always a Linux person though and work with Mark as well as folks at other OEMs. On Fri, May 1, 2020, 08:54 Mark Pearson wrote: > Hi Vitaly > > From: Vitaly Zaitsev via devel

RE: [External] Re: Fedora+Lenovo

2020-05-01 Thread Mark Pearson
Hi Alexander, > From: Alexander Ploumistos > Sent: Friday, May 1, 2020 8:07 AM > > Hi Mark, > > And welcome aboard. > I've been using a tweaked Legion Y520-15IKBN for a year and a half now > and I'm a happy camper. I can't say that I understand hardware > vendors' marketing decisions, like

RE: [External] Re: Fedora+Lenovo

2020-05-01 Thread Mark Pearson
Hi Vitaly > From: Vitaly Zaitsev via devel > Sent: Friday, May 1, 2020 7:05 AM > > On 01.05.2020 12:52, Peter Robinson wrote: > > I bet this is actually the Intel Dynamic Platform and Thermal > > Framework (DPTF) that's at fault here [1] and so while I'm sure Lenovo > > can approach Intel and

Re: Fedora+Lenovo

2020-05-01 Thread Alexander Ploumistos
On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 2:38 PM James Cassell wrote: > > > On Fri, May 1, 2020, at 8:07 AM, Alexander Ploumistos wrote: > > One thing that I'd like to see, is linux support for the "energy > > manager" features - it's pretty much the only reason I've allowed > > This "just works" on F32 for me

Re: Fedora+Lenovo

2020-05-01 Thread James Cassell
On Fri, May 1, 2020, at 8:07 AM, Alexander Ploumistos wrote: > Hi Mark, > > And welcome aboard. > I've been using a tweaked Legion Y520-15IKBN for a year and a half now > and I'm a happy camper. I can't say that I understand hardware > vendors' marketing decisions, like putting a heftier price

Re: [External] Re: Fedora+Lenovo

2020-05-01 Thread James Cassell
On Fri, May 1, 2020, at 7:25 AM, Solomon Peachy wrote: > On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 03:36:09AM +, Mark Pearson wrote: > > I'm also quite fond of my AMD T495. It's a platform that has given me > > minimal headaches > > Yeah, one of those is my daily driver. > > My only real complaint has to

Re: Fedora+Lenovo

2020-05-01 Thread Alexander Ploumistos
Hi Mark, And welcome aboard. I've been using a tweaked Legion Y520-15IKBN for a year and a half now and I'm a happy camper. I can't say that I understand hardware vendors' marketing decisions, like putting a heftier price tag on a "professional" machine, whereas a "gaming" laptop with the same

Re: [External] Re: Fedora+Lenovo

2020-05-01 Thread Solomon Peachy
On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 03:36:09AM +, Mark Pearson wrote: > I'm also quite fond of my AMD T495. It's a platform that has given me > minimal headaches Yeah, one of those is my daily driver. My only real complaint has to do with the placement of the "PrtSc" key. I accidentally take

RE: [External] Re: Fedora+Lenovo

2020-05-01 Thread Mark Pearson
> From: Richard Hughes > Sent: Friday, May 1, 2020 6:28 AM > > On Fri, 1 May 2020 at 06:22, Joe Doss wrote: > > Yes!!! This works on my T490s! Awesome > > Phew! Do we know why it's not been promoted to stable yet? > The reason it took so long in testing is the firmware load is shared with

RE: [External] Re: Fedora+Lenovo

2020-05-01 Thread Markus Larsson
On 1 May 2020 12:57:04 CEST, Mark Pearson wrote: >Hi Markus, > >> From: Markus Larsson >> Sent: Friday, May 1, 2020 3:24 AM >> >> Hi Mark >> >> I have a question regarding the hardware lineup. The 3 machines mentioned >> are very fine machines but for many usages they are definitely overkill

RE: [External] Re: Fedora+Lenovo

2020-05-01 Thread Mark Pearson
Hi Vitaly and Peter > From: Peter Robinson > Sent: Friday, May 1, 2020 6:53 AM > > > > Hello, Mark. > > > > When Lenovo will fix major throttling issues[1] on all supported > > ThinkPad models? > > > > When running on GNU/Linux, due to overheating, my T480/T580 throttle up > > to 400 MHz (much

Re: Fedora+Lenovo

2020-05-01 Thread Vitaly Zaitsev via devel
On 01.05.2020 12:52, Peter Robinson wrote: > I bet this is actually the Intel Dynamic Platform and Thermal > Framework (DPTF) that's at fault here [1] and so while I'm sure Lenovo > can approach Intel and assist I'm not sure it's something they can fix > directly, on the plus side it looks like

RE: [External] Re: Fedora+Lenovo

2020-05-01 Thread Mark Pearson
Hi Markus, > From: Markus Larsson > Sent: Friday, May 1, 2020 3:24 AM > > Hi Mark > > I have a question regarding the hardware lineup. The 3 machines mentioned > are very fine machines but for many usages they are definitely overkill and a > tad bit pricey. > Will there be more modest machines

Re: Fedora+Lenovo

2020-05-01 Thread Peter Robinson
> On 30.04.2020 23:18, Mark Pearson wrote: > > Adam Williamson suggested I stick a note in the mailing list saying “hi” > > - so I’ve achieved that and officially upgraded myself from lurker! He > > also suggested I take questions from the community - and I’m very happy > > to do that. > > Hello,

Re: [External] Re: Fedora+Lenovo

2020-05-01 Thread Richard Hughes
On Fri, 1 May 2020 at 06:22, Joe Doss wrote: > Yes!!! This works on my T490s! Phew! Do we know why it's not been promoted to stable yet? Richard. ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: [External] Re: Fedora+Lenovo

2020-05-01 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 03:10:39AM +, Mark Pearson wrote: > Hi Tomasz, > > > From: Tomasz Torcz > > Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2020 5:33 PM > > > > Hi, welcome among regular folks ;) > > > > I was wondering, will Lenovo work to make older models fully > > supported, too? I'm looking at

Re: Fedora+Lenovo

2020-05-01 Thread Vitaly Zaitsev via devel
On 30.04.2020 23:18, Mark Pearson wrote: > Adam Williamson suggested I stick a note in the mailing list saying “hi” > - so I’ve achieved that and officially upgraded myself from lurker! He > also suggested I take questions from the community - and I’m very happy > to do that. Hello, Mark. When

Re: Fedora+Lenovo

2020-05-01 Thread Markus Larsson
On 30 April 2020 23:18:10 CEST, Mark Pearson wrote: >Hi all, > >Adam Williamson suggested I stick a note in the mailing list saying “hi” - so >I’ve achieved that and officially upgraded myself from lurker! He also >suggested I take questions from the community - and I’m very happy to do that.

Re: [External] Re: Fedora+Lenovo

2020-04-30 Thread Joe Doss
On 4/30/20 10:10 PM, Mark Pearson wrote: > As a note - if you do have the 00bd device: firmware is on LVFS but it's in > testing state (should be released really soon). If you do enable > lvfs-testing > and do an update to get it installed then fingerprints should work with F32 > (they did

RE: [External] Re: Fedora+Lenovo

2020-04-30 Thread Mark Pearson
> -Original Message- > From: Garry T. Williams > Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2020 6:00 PM > > On Thursday, April 30, 2020 5:18:10 PM EDT Mark Pearson wrote: > > He also suggested I take questions from the community > > I Mark. Which Lenovo model do I want to replace my XPS-13? > I

RE: [External] Re: Fedora+Lenovo

2020-04-30 Thread Mark Pearson
Hi Björn and Solomon, > -Original Message- > From: Solomon Peachy > Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2020 5:50 PM > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 11:37:41PM +0200, Björn 'besser82' Esser wrote: > > My first question regarding Lenovo support for Fedora is: > > > > Will there be any working driver

RE: [External] Re: Fedora+Lenovo

2020-04-30 Thread Mark Pearson
Hi Tomasz, > From: Tomasz Torcz > Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2020 5:33 PM > > Hi, welcome among regular folks ;) > > I was wondering, will Lenovo work to make older models fully > supported, too? I'm looking at fingeprint reader on my T480s… I'd have to check what device is on the T480s

Re: Fedora+Lenovo

2020-04-30 Thread Garry T. Williams
On Thursday, April 30, 2020 5:18:10 PM EDT Mark Pearson wrote: > He also suggested I take questions from the community I Mark. Which Lenovo model do I want to replace my XPS-13? -- Garry T. Williams ___ devel mailing list --

Re: Fedora+Lenovo

2020-04-30 Thread Solomon Peachy
On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 11:37:41PM +0200, Björn 'besser82' Esser wrote: > My first question regarding Lenovo support for Fedora is: > > Will there be any working driver or any other kind of support from > Lenovo for the "Intel Corporation XMM7360 LTE Advanced Modem" aka. > Fibocom L850-GL

Re: Fedora+Lenovo

2020-04-30 Thread Zachary Snyder
Hi Mark, Thanks for reaching out to the mailing list. Not sure if this is the appropriate place for this email but I was wondering if fingerprint scanner support will be added in updates some how? I am running fedora 32 gnome on a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 carbon 6th gen Cheers, Zach On Thu, Apr 30,

Re: Fedora+Lenovo

2020-04-30 Thread Björn 'besser82' Esser
Am Donnerstag, den 30.04.2020, 21:18 + schrieb Mark Pearson: > Hi all, > > Adam Williamson suggested I stick a note in the mailing list saying > “hi” - so I’ve achieved that and officially upgraded myself from > lurker! He also suggested I take questions from the community - and > I’m very

Re: Fedora+Lenovo

2020-04-30 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 09:18:10PM +, Mark Pearson wrote: > Hi all, > > Adam Williamson suggested I stick a note in the mailing list saying > “hi” - so I’ve achieved that and officially upgraded myself from > lurker! He also suggested I take questions from the community - and > I’m very happy

Re: Fedora+Lenovo

2020-04-30 Thread Michel Alexandre Salim
Hi Mark, On 4/30/20 2:18 PM, Mark Pearson wrote: Hi all, Adam Williamson suggested I stick a note in the mailing list saying “hi” - so I’ve achieved that and officially upgraded myself from lurker! He also suggested I take questions from the community - and I’m very happy to do that.

Re: Fedora+Lenovo

2020-04-30 Thread Ben Cotton
And Mark will be the guest at the next Fedora Council video meeting on 13 May. See the wiki[1] for more details. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Council/Video_Meetings -- Ben Cotton He / Him / His Senior Program Manager, Fedora & CentOS Stream Red Hat TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis

Fedora+Lenovo

2020-04-30 Thread Mark Pearson
Hi all, Adam Williamson suggested I stick a note in the mailing list saying “hi” - so I’ve achieved that and officially upgraded myself from lurker! He also suggested I take questions from the community - and I’m very happy to do that. So - if there are any questions from Fedora developers on