While useful for checking one laptop at a time, we'll want to build a better method to run this across our fleet. This is only here for those who don't want to go through the hassle of finding them in your firmware update extractions.ĭepending on the model laptop, you can now run one or the other of the detection binaries to get your firmware version, as shown below: Important: Please please please validate the digital signature on all of the files inside the Zip and don't randomly trust downloaded binaries from a blog. If you'd rather not go hunting for them, you can download them from me here. You're looking for one that has detect1909ur.exe and one that has detect2008.exe. Below, I'll share the steps you can use to gather this information yourself.įirst, you'll need to gather up the DETECT folders from the downloaded Firmware updates (after you extract them). Through trial and error, I found that although there are dozens of different firmware updates, the detection binaries from just two of them covered my entire fleet.

The only solution I found in the forums was to collect the data using the firmware update itself. Insert the ThinkPad into the dock and observe if the daemon switches to your external display automatically.When Lenovo announced HT508988 back in late 2019, I found there was no built-in method to get the firmware version on impacted Lenovo models using traditional hardware inventory or WMI. The daemon should now be configured and ready to use. ~/.config/i3/config exec -no-startup-id dockd -daemon If you are using i3, you need to manual autostart dockd as i3 is not XDG Autostart compatible.Start/enable rvice (see acpid if needed).Write the profile when the ThinkPad is undocked.Configure the internal panel resolution and refresh rates using your desktop environments interface or xrandr.Write the profile when the ThinkPad is docked.Configure the display layouts and resolutions using your desktop environments interface or xrandr.The daemon needs to know your current display configuration when the laptop is docked and undocked, so we need to configure the daemon first before using it. Note: If your current desktop environment switches the displays automatically you do not need this program.

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