NetBSD Laptop with external screen support (ThinkPad T14 Gen 1)
David Brownlee <[email protected]> Sat, 14 Jun 2025 14:56:14 +0100
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Just upgraded from my old T480 to a ThinkPad T14 Gen 1 from - T480 - 2018 - 32GB, i7-8550U to - T14 Gen1 - 2020 - 48GB - i7-10610U Picked the T14 Gen 1 as it is the last T series machine with the Intel UHD display chipset - later machines move to the Intel Iris Xe, for which NetBSD does not run on an external monitor. Regressions from the T480: - Only has an internal battery rather than a small internal and optional replaceable - Wi-Fi chipset is Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201, so using a USB dongle - Firmware will always boot from /EFI/Microsoft/Boot in preference to /EFI/Boot, so the F12 dual boot trick to select booting from the disk for NetBSD and "Microsoft Boot Manager" for Windows no longer works, will have to install rEFInd or similar at some point - the "intel" x11 driver no longer works - shows odd fading pixel block artifacts on screen, but "modesetting" works Just Fine Noticeably quicker, and that extra 16GB definitely helps when running IDEA, a few databases and java servers plus browsers. This is with a NetBSD-10 install with a current 10.99.14 kernel (I'm checking to see if an occasional tun0 related routing issue which appeared when moving from NetBSD-9 to NetBSD-10 is still present in -current) All in all a worthwhile upgrade David