Lenovo ThinkPad S440

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About ThinkPad S440

The Lenovo Thinkpad S440 was sold with optional touchscreen and optional ATI graphic card in addition to a standard intel graphic card. This entry is based on a non-touch model with the standard intel graphic card only.

Lenovo stopped selling the Lenovo ThinkPad S440 model [1]

BIOS

The Lenovo Thinkpad S440 has BIOS settings you probably want to adapt when deploying Linux on it. Download the user manual (Third Edition, published Jan. 2015) and have it at hand to understand the settings and their various option values. In the manual, go to Using the ThinkPad Setup program where a table of BIOS options can be found. BIOS settings which might be required for a successful install and can be found in the table below:

Menu item Submenu item Selection Explainations
Intel Smart Connect Disabled This function is not documented in the manual! Intel Smart Connect periodically fetches mail, social network messages and runs cloud synchronization while the computer is in standby. There are reports that this function leads to unwanted wake-up from power-safe modes.
USB USB UEFI BIOS Support Enabled (default) Keep on "Enable" if you plan to install Gentoo from USB stick.
Virtualization Intel(R) Virtualization Technology Disabled (default) Enable this if you want to run virual machines.
Virtualization Intel VT-d Feature Disabled (default) Enable this if you want to run virual machines (and utilize I/O virtualization).
Anti-Theft Intel AT Module Activation Disabled Intel® Anti-Theft Service will be terminated by the end of January 2015.
Anti-Theft Computrace Disabled Computrace is an optional monitoring service from Absolute Software.
Secure Boot Secure Boot Disabled (default) Required to boot "unauthorized operating systems" (a.k.a. Linux)
UEFI/Legacy Boot UEFI Only Use this setting to make 100% sure UEFI is used to avoid future confusion.
UEFI/Legacy Boot CSM Support No Prevents booting from MBR-partitioned disks because its successor, the GUID Partition Table (GPT) should be used. If you have trouble booting the installation medium temporarily set this to Yes.
Boot Mode Diagnostics Verbose boot process.

Leaving Microsoft Windows Installed

Lenovo's ThinkPad S440 comes with M$ Windows (8.1 or 7) pre-installed. I recommend to keep M$ Windows installed because

  • firmware or BIOS updates usually require M$ Windows (on their download site they offer Linux based tools too, so there is hope)
  • it comes in handy for troubleshooting sometimes
  • no M$ Windows install medium comes with the laptop. Therefore, reinstalling Windows is tiresome.

Lenovo's official download website for ThinkPad S440 is here.

If Gentoo was installed in dual-boot configuration with M$ the partition table should look similar(!) to this. Comments (marked by #) were added manually by me.

root #parted -l
Model: ATA SAMSUNG MZ7TE128 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 128GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: 
Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name                          Flags         # Label
 1      1049kB  1050MB  1049MB  ntfs                                       hidden, diag  # WINRE_DRV
 2      1050MB  1322MB  273MB   fat32        EFI system partition          boot, esp     # SYSTEM_DRV
 3      1322MB  1456MB  134MB                Microsoft reserved partition  msftres
 4      1456MB  33.8GB  32.4GB  ntfs         Basic data partition          msftdata      # Windows8_OS
 6      33.8GB  46.9GB  13.1GB  ext4                                                     # Linux Mint
 7      46.9GB  107GB   60.3GB  ext4                                                     # Gentoo
 5      107GB   128GB   20.8GB  ntfs                                       hidden, diag  # Lenovo_Recovery

Don't swipe the Microsoft reserved partition!

Hardware Support Status

ACPI - Power Management

Function Works? Note
Suspend to RAM Yes see Suspend_and_hibernate
Suspend to disk (hibernate) Untested
Display backlight control Yes see ACPI/ThinkPad-special-buttons#Backlight_control
Keyboard backlight control Yes Fn + Space

ACPI - Sound Management

If the special keys are not working, the following modifications, based on ACPI and ACPI/ThinkPad-special-buttons, are suggested:

FILE /etc/acpi/events/FnF1-muteEnabling the mute function key
event=button/mute
action=/etc/acpi/actions/FnF1-mute.sh
FILE /etc/acpi/events/FnF2-volumedownEnabling the volume down function key
event=button/volumedown
action=/etc/acpi/actions/FnF2-volumedown.sh
FILE /etc/acpi/events/FnF3-volumeupEnabling the volume up function key
event=button/volumeup
action=/etc/acpi/actions/FnF3-volumeup.sh
FILE /etc/acpi/actions/FnF1-mute.shEnabling the mute function key
#!/bin/sh
amixer -q set Master toggle
FILE /etc/acpi/actions/FnF2-volumedown.shEnabling the volume down function key
#!/bin/sh
amixer -q set Master 3dB-
FILE /etc/acpi/actions/FnF3-volumeup.shEnabling the volume up function key
#!/bin/sh
amixer -q set Master 3dB+
root #chmod +x /etc/acpi/actions/FnF1-mute.sh /etc/acpi/actions/FnF2-volumedown.sh /etc/acpi/actions/FnF3-volumeup.sh
root #/etc/init.d/acpid restart

Hardware List

root #lspci -nnk
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT DRAM Controller [8086:0a04] (rev 0b)
        Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:501c]
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0a16] (rev 0b)
        Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:501c]
        Kernel driver in use: i915
00:03.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT HD Audio Controller [8086:0a0c] (rev 0b)
        Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:501c]
        Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 8 Series USB xHCI HC [8086:9c31] (rev 04)
        Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:501c]
        Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation 8 Series HECI #0 [8086:9c3a] (rev 04)
        Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:501c]
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 8 Series HD Audio Controller [8086:9c20] (rev 04)
        Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:501c]
        Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 8 Series PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:9c10] (rev e4)
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 8 Series PCI Express Root Port 2 [8086:9c12] (rev e4)
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1c.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 8 Series PCI Express Root Port 3 [8086:9c14] (rev e4)
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 8 Series PCI Express Root Port 4 [8086:9c16] (rev e4)
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 8 Series USB EHCI #1 [8086:9c26] (rev 04)
        Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:501c]
        Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 8 Series LPC Controller [8086:9c43] (rev 04)
        Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:501c]
        Kernel driver in use: lpc_ich
        Kernel modules: lpc_ich
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 8 Series SATA Controller 1 [AHCI mode] [8086:9c03] (rev 04)
        Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:501c]
        Kernel driver in use: ahci
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 8 Series SMBus Controller [8086:9c22] (rev 04)
        Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:501c]
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 10)
        Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:501c]
        Kernel driver in use: r8169
04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 [8086:08b2] (rev 83)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260 [8086:4270]
        Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
        Kernel modules: iwlwifi
05:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS5227 PCI Express Card Reader [10ec:5227] (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:501c]
        Kernel driver in use: rtsx_pci
        Kernel modules: rtsx_pci
root #lsusb
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 8087:8000 Intel Corp. 
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 138a:0011 Validity Sensors, Inc. VFS5011 Fingerprint Reader
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:5720 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:07dc Intel Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

Configuration details

Compiler flags

Main article: Safe CFLAGS

FILE /etc/portage/make.confcompuler flags
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
# These are the USE flags that were used in addition to what is provided by the profile used for building.
# the later use flags are based on personal preference
USE="-handbook xinerama networkmanager modemmanager usb ppp"
# those use flages were found with the tool: cpuinfo2cpuflags-x86
# relevant eselect news: CPU_FLAGS_X86 introduction, 2015-01-28
# The USE flags corresponding to the instruction sets and other features
# specific to the x86 (amd64) architecture are being moved into a separate
# USE flag group called CPU_FLAGS_X86.
CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes avx avx2 fma3 mmx mmxext popcnt sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3"
PORTDIR="/var/db/repos/gentoo"
DISTDIR="/var/cache/distfiles"
PKGDIR="/var/cache/packages"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
GRUB_PLATFORMS="efi-64"
INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics"
# VIDEO_CARDS="intel i915"
VIDEO_CARDS="intel i965"

Kernel Configuration

Wireless LAN

In case you followed Wifi, it is sufficient to enable MVM Firmare support only. MVM supports Intel 7260 (which is built into this model) and 3160 devices, while DVM Firmware support supports all other Intel devices.

KERNEL 
    Device Drivers  --->
    [*] Network device support  --->
        [*] Wireless LAN  --->
            <M>   Intel Wireless WiFi Next Gen AGN - Wireless-N/Advanced-N/Ultimate-N (iwlwifi)
                < >     Intel Wireless WiFi DVM Firmware support
                <M>     Intel Wireless WiFi MVM Firmware support

MMC/SD Card Reader

In order to use the MMC/SD card reader (the slot is on the left hand side of the notebook) you need to enable the respective drivers in the kernel config.

KERNEL 
    Device Drivers  --->
    <*> MMC/SD/SDIO card support  --->
        <*> MMC block device driver
        <M> Realtek PCI-E SD/MMC Card Interface Driver

Required packages

Sound

It may be that sound does not work out of the box. This is caused by the order in which the kernel modules are loaded and the fact that there is a HDMI and PCH sound card in the laptop.

First, test if the PCH sound card is functional. Get a list of all PCM devices

root linux #aplay -L
null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
default:CARD=PCH
    HDA Intel PCH, ID 510f Analog
    Default Audio Device
sysdefault:CARD=PCH
    HDA Intel PCH, ID 510f Analog
    Default Audio Device
front:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, ID 510f Analog
    Front speakers
surround21:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, ID 510f Analog
    2.1 Surround output to Front and Subwoofer speakers
surround40:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, ID 510f Analog
    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, ID 510f Analog
    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, ID 510f Analog
    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, ID 510f Analog
    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, ID 510f Analog
    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
hdmi:CARD=HDMI,DEV=0
    HDA Intel HDMI, HDMI 0
    HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=HDMI,DEV=1
    HDA Intel HDMI, HDMI 1
    HDMI Audio Output

Next, test sound output (you should hear noise):

root #aplay -Ddefault:CARD=PCH /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav
Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono

Finally follow the advice given in ALSA#HTML5_does_not_play_in_firefox_browser and

FILE /etc/default/grubswapping sound card order
...
# change load order sound cards
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="snd-hda-intel.index=1,0"
...

Reconfigure and reinstall grub and reboot to make the change effective.

External resources

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