Though a new firmware was release for ThinkPad X1 Carbon G6 since last month, 2020/01/23, I only found about this today. Unlike the firmware for Dell’s laptop, once can easily update it with fwupmgr if your Linux system supports it. Here’s what’s changed in this release. CHANGES IN THIS RELEASE Version 1.45 <1.45> UEFI: 1.45 / ECP: 1.20 - (Fix) Fixed an issue where a system hardware controller device might disappear at 2nd boot....
Dell released a new System BIOS firmware for Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 version 1.1.3 at the end of last year. This release marked as Urgent, and it fixed the following issues (as taken from Dell’s site): Fixed the incorrect panel size information in the BIOS setup menu. Fixed the issue where the MAC Address Override fails during the Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) boot process. Change default setting of “Enable Thunderbolt (and PCIe behind TBT) pre-boot modules” to disabled by default If your laptop runs Windows 10 and has Dell Update utilities installed, this System BIOS firmware update process is very simple....
There’s been problem with NVIDIA driver on my computer running Fedora 31 ever since the kernel has hit version 5.4.*. The issue is that the NVIDIA driver version 435.21, which is installed from rpmfusion-nonfree, can’t be built with kernel 5.4. Here is the version of the akmod-nvidia package: [root@watamem ~]# dnf info akmod-nvidia Last metadata expiration check: 1:48:11 ago on Sun 02 Feb 2020 08:13:26 PM AEDT. Installed Packages Name : akmod-nvidia Epoch : 3 Version : 435....
Just a note to remind myself to install packages required to have Fedora based system to recognize SD cards or other drives formatted using exFAT. # dnf install fuse-exfat exfat-utils -y After the above 2 packages installed, just reinsert the SD cards, no reboot is required.
It looks like Lenovo just released a new firmware for ThinkPad P1 Gen1 again. Here is the changes in this 1.25 release: CHANGES IN THIS RELEASE Version 1.25 [Important updates] - Update includes security fixes. - Addresses CVE-2019-0151 (https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-0151) - Addresses CVE-2019-0152 (https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-0152) - Addresses CVE-2019-0123 (https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-0123) - Addresses CVE-2019-0124 (https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-0124) - Addresses CVE-2019-0117 (https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-0117) - Addresses CVE-2019-0184 (https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-0184) [New functions or enhancements] - Updated the CPU microcode. - Updated Regulatory Information....