I installed Ubuntu Trusty on a brand new lenovo Thinkpad. So far things are going well except for the following: The pipe key gives the < symbol, and when shift is pressed, it gives the > symbol. It’s a bit impossible to run commands this way Answer Sounds like you have the US keyboard enabled, … Read more
I created a bootable USB of Ubuntu 14.04 and 15.04, via unetbootin, on OS X. The USB live session seems to work in principle, tested it on the Mac I created it on, and can get into a Ubuntu live session (both with 14.04. and 15.04) The problem: Trying to get a live session working … Read more
I have a Thinkpad t450s with the physical trackpoint buttons. It uses the synaptics driver and shows up like this in xinput(1): ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=11 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint id=12 … Read more
I have a ThinkPad x230i (2324-HF4) with a fingerprint reader on it. I’ve upgraded up to Windows 10 and I can’t enable fingerprint login. In BIOS settings fingerprint reader is visible (I can erase all data on it). In Windows device manager it is also visible. How can I fix thix error? Fingerprint ID is: … Read more
I am working on a project where I need the dimensions of the T510 Keyboard. The plan is to use the Keyboard with odroid or any other micro-controller board. The easiest way is to use the usb interface and for that it should fit into my Thinkpad Edge 11. It will probably require some minor … Read more
When I plug in an external monitor into my Thinkpad X230 Tablet PC with a VGA port, and extend the display to that monitor, the monitor’s display is shifted 3 inches to the right. There is a large black gap on the left side of the monitor. The monitor has a setting to manually adjust … Read more
I changed my battery, it worked for a day, then stopped doing so overnight. Ubuntu says the laptop is fully charged, but when I unplug it from the wall it dies. My old battery works fine. What should I try? My laptop: Lenovo T410 Battery led status indicator: blinking orange, not sure if “fast” or … Read more
I recently got a used Thinkpad x220, I had everything working fine under Windows 10. I flipped the network switch on the side which as expected cut the internet connection. The issue is after flipping the switch back to on it is still seems to be off. Wifi shows as off and the Windows network … Read more
Is it possible to swap a HDD from a Lenovo T430 into a T440p without too much trouble? I’d like to keep both OSs intact. Answer AttributionSource : Link , Question Author : James Draper , Answer Author : Community
I disabled the Touchscreen of my Lenovo X220 (core i7) tablet due to over-sensitivity (it registers some non-existing ‘touches’ itself) in the Device Manager according to this previous post: How do I disable the touch screen on Windows 8.1 for a Lenovo X220? It works right after I have disabled it. However, as soon as … Read more
