Re: Anyone here have experience of Debian on Thinkpad P series?

On 2026-06-07 at 09:21:07 AM, Chris Green wrote:

> I'm thinking of getting a refurbished Thinkpad P Series laptop to
> replace my existing Thinkpad T470.  I want a larger screen as my eyes
> are getting older.  Weight and size isn't a **huge** issue but I don't
> want anything a lot bigger.
>
> So, something like a P1 gen 4 would seem to fit my requirements but
> I'm a little wary of them nearly always having dual display hardware,
> Intel 'built-in' and Nvidia.

This is the computer I have (P1 Gen 4). Things are mostly fine, but of
course the nvidia drivers break occasionally. Audio mostly fine, input
fine. I never bothered to set up bluetooth, so I don't know if that
works.

7.0.4 panicked on my laptop, but I'm content running 6.19.14 on forky.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1136379

Cheers,
Michael