Lenovo Sleep and Mouse

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I recently upgraded to a lenovo laptop because of my son dumping an entire glass of water on my dell. Dell seemed to work almost perfectly but with the lenovo I have the following issues.

  1. When the laptop sleeps, the keyboard won’t work, assuming it’s some kind of power management issue.
  2. The mouse pointer is randomly slow and sluggish (inaccurate)
  3. I’ve tried different Kernels with no luck

I’m assuming that because the laptop is so new that it doesn’t have great support yet, but really like it so don’t want to have to return it as I can’t go back to windows from COS!

Laptop Info:

lenovo
lenovo982×820 97.1 KB

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I have the same laptop, the components in it are not that new. I have no accuracy issues with the touchpad, but I use gnome. It’s just a weird touchpad, you can get used to it, at least on gnome. Just the scroll is a bit annoying for me, but there’s no easy fix for that.

I have a similar problem with sleep/suspend. Can you try manual suspend and check if it actually goes to sleep.

If it doesn’t it might be this bug, they’re working on it Since 256, suspend fails over 50% of the time: Freezing user space processes failed · Issue #33626 · systemd/systemd · GitHub

PS: if you have issues with the wifi randomly disconnecting, you have to disable some power saving features of the wifi.

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I had found a solution then had a grub issue and had to re-install. It’s not working again… what a bummer! I should have documented better how I did the fix the first time. I’m pretty sure this was part of it, but can’t re-create the fix :frowning:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ideapad-laptop-tb2024g6plus-dkms

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Where did you find that package and why is that supposed to fix the issue?

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I have found a fix for my issues. You need to do two things. Maybe the first point is not necessary, but I did it anyway.

  1. Update the uefi firmware, to make sure everything is close to stable as possible. You can do this from windows if you have it installed, if not you will need the following things:
  • Google lenovo drivers go to the Lenovo site and enter your serial number from the bottom of the laptop, then download the UEFI/BIOS update .exe
  • Download Download | Hiren's BootCD PE you will download an .iso file
  • Install Ventoy from the AUR and use it to make a Ventoy usb.
  • Copy the .exe and the .iso to the created Ventoy partition on the usb.
  • Don’t forget to run the sync command and wait for it to stop before you unplug the USB to make sure it’s safe to remove.
  • Now you can boot from that USB, it will load a Windows PE where you can run that .exe from the Ventoy partition. It will reboot your system. Don’t forget to plug in your laptop before you start the update.
  1. Follow the instructions from this post [Solved] Keyboard and mouse not working after resuming from suspend. / Laptop Issues / Arch Linux Forums

Now I can suspend and wake up the device with a working keyboard. You need to wait a second until the keyboard resets.

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Mine was/is on the latest firmware and it’s still not working for me :open_mouth: