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It’s the delete key (to enter BIOS). I don’t think there is a separate boot device selection screen like in some other BIOS’. In the BIOS you can go to the rightmost tab (the one where you can save & exit) and at the bottom you will see the list of available boot options. Just select one of those and press enter to boot from there.

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I found that you don’t actually have to go in sleep to get the touchpad working again most of the time. What works fairly reliably for me is to run the rmmod with the modprobe in one command, and while the command is running (presumably its then in the module initialization part) you tap or click. Usually the command returns then like it recognizes incoming data from the touchpad and it’ll work again. In the beginning I also just ran the command and waited for it to return and it didn’t work most of the time, until I learned this trick. Hope it helps.

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On a second attempt clicks are now working by tapping and two-finger tapping for right clicks. The physical buttons don’t seem to work (though the events seem to get through in /dev/input/eventXX) but that’s not a big problem for me.

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Rob H, I can’t thank you enough for this fix! I had found some fixes/patches about this as well and I knew the problem was probably with the i2c system but I didn’t honestly expect it to be worked around so easily. It works like a charm and I now have all the functionality I want under linux, awesome.

Edit: I spoke too soon. Clicking (either by tapping or using the touchpad buttons) doesn’t seem to work. This may just be due to some settings though. I’ve noticed if i keep the left button pressed and then slide across the pad it actuall scrolls in my browser, so it’s probably just misconfigured somehow.

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Had my thinker for a few days now. So far installed Manjaro rolling and Ubuntu 17.04 on it. Both work really well, even HiDPI support is very good, except for the touchpad. I’ve looked around everywhere and tried kernel 4.12 for Manjaro and 4.11.0 for Ubuntu but it just won’t work. If someone did get it to work please let us know as my plan was to use this mainly for linux.

I’ve also encountered the audio popping noise. Under Manjaro it actually occurs periodically when no audio is being output, like two popping noises every few seconds, which is very annoying (i disabled the sound modules for this reason). On Ubuntu it seems to work better since it only happens once during startup. A hack for Manjaro that does work is to keep the sound settings dialog open in the background, then the popping noise will not occur anymore.

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