T14 G1 + Fedora 42

Fingerprint reader

GNOME settings shows this as disabled, however we can enable this from the command line.

Packages that might need to be installed

sudo dnf install fprintd fprintd-pam

Enable fingerprint authentication

sudo authselect enable-feature with-fingerprint

Enroll

fprintd-enroll -f [finger]

Once enabled and enrolled, GNOME login starts giving fingerprint as a login option.

The feature turned out to be more useful than I expected because it also works to authenticate things on the command line. So where I would enter the root password for sudo the system now asks for a finger scan which is at least a novel thing, if not faster than typing in the password.

Power consumption

For my typical task of writing things using Neovim, I see about 3.5W. This is much better than my E14 G4 running Ubuntu which ran at about 7W for the same tasks. Even streaming video typically uses 5.3W.

I was a little worried by notes from people online saying that the Intel motherboards were terrible at power consumption and gave very poor battery life, but I see nothing concerning here.

Sleep etc.

There were no problems at all with sleep and waking from sleep. The E14 had some issues that got resolved with one of the kernel updates.

Issues (All software, perhaps Fedora related)

1. Touchpad: This is what is driving me nuts currently. There are two issues:

2. Tap-to-click is flaky. It will work, then go into a 4-5 second refactory period then work again. It may have something to do with wake from sleep.

3. Two finger scroll will sometimes zoom on Firefox. Again, this is intermittent depending on wake from sleep.

4. Pin-to-dash doesn’t work for simple-scan.