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# Lenovo IdeaPad flex 6

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The Lenovo Flex 6 is a flexible dual-mode laptop computer.

## Hardware Support

### UEFI

Before installing any other OS (other than the default Windows 8/8.1) it is required to disable the secure boot option in the boot setup menu.

### Video

Works natively with xf86-video-amdgpu. However, you need to use kernel 4.17 or later.

### Touchpad

Recognized with this kernel module

### Touchscreen

Recognized with this kernel module

## Issues

### Wireless

The wireless card is supported, but you may run into an issue where the wireless card is hard blocked. Check if this is the case with:

    $ rfkill

A solution is to block the lenovo ideapad drivers

edit the file

    /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

and add this:

    blacklist ideapad_laptop

### Firmware bug IOAPIC[x] not in IVRS table

More info on this issue here.

Example of my paramters:

`ivrs_ioapic[4]=00:14.0 ivrs_ioapic[5]=00:00.1`

Before adding the above to your configuration, make sure you know how to edit your kernel paramaters.

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