How can the ThinkPad X1 Carbon 6th Gen fixes from f38 be applied to f41 and f42?
I’m not sure what the fixes are, but are you sure they need to be manually applied to newer Fedora versions?
If they’re kernel patches based on F38’s kernel, it’s possible the updates were already added to newer kernels in newer Fedora.
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No, if I’m not mistaken, these are patches related to the audio driver, thermal throttling, and fingerprint sensor functionality. There might have been something else too, because when I installed F38, the updates included a bunch of patches labeled with “ThinkPad 6th Gen.”
That looks like firmware updates. Those are delivered from the vendor directly via lvfs and consumed in Fedora through fwupd. They are flashed on the firmware directly, which means they are OS independent. Like, you could now format the laptop and install Ubuntu and the new firmware would still be there.
You can try something like, for example, gnome firmware and check your laptop’s firmware availability and so on. But I don’t think you need to do anything if you already applied the firmware updates previously.
Hi!
Thanks for the help!
The biggest problem is that there’s a lot of noise on the microphone — it’s so bad that nothing can really be understood. If that could be fixed, I wouldn’t care much about the rest.
Ubuntu is cringe.
Thanks!
So you’re already on the latest firmware for the laptop, are you?
I’ve only done a quick search, but some of the results from similar X1 seem to point to installing alsa-sof-firmware. There’s also this one from the arch forum but might be a different thing.