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Hardware | PCI/USB ID | Working?
--- | --- | ---
GPU (Intel) | `8086:591c` | Yes
Wireless | `10ec:8852` | Yes
Bluetooth | `0bda:4852` | ????
Audio | `8086:9d71` | Yes
TouchPad | `???` (Elan) | Yes
Touchscreen | `???` (Elan) | Yes
Webcam | `04f2:b616` `04f2:b6d9` | Yes

The Lenovo Yoga 11e (Gen 6) is a 2-in-1 replacement for the Thinkpad X1xx series. Both Chromebook and (originally) Windows-based systems exist. This page (currently) covers the Windows version.

To ensure you have this version, install the package dmidecode and run:

    # dmidecode -t system | grep Version

    Version: ThinkPad 11e Yoga Gen 6

## Installation

The factual accuracy of this article or section is disputed.

Reason: This section states disabling Secure Boot is not necessary, then it prompts the user to disable Secure Boot, then it states again that disabling Secure Boot is not required. This is incoherent. (Discuss in Talk:Lenovo Yoga 11e Gen 6)

EFI booting works; disabling Secure Boot is *not* necessary.

See #Accessibility on how to change UEFI settings, disable Secure Boot and boot an Arch installation medium.

### Secure Boot

Disabling Secure Boot is *not* required to install Arch on this hardware.

### EFI/LUKS

Full disk encryption with LUKS is supported. It is significantly easier to get this working using EFISTUB rather than GRUB. In addition to various Dm-crypt wiki pages, [1] and [2] may be helpful.

## Firmware

BIOS is accessible via `F2` during system boot. Default settings appear to work fine.

The boot menu is accessible via `F12`.

Firmware upgrades have not been tested.

## Keyboard

No issues. However, the location of the `Fn` and left-side `Ctrl` key may annoy some users. There is a BIOS setting to swap the two keys.

### Function Keys

This article or section needs expansion.

Reason: The key grabbed by XFCE should be tested in an other environment to get it's value (e.g. with xev or wev) instead of having a DE-specific description. (Discuss in Talk:Lenovo Yoga 11e Gen 6)

Key | Visible? 1 | Marked? 2 | Effect
--- | --- | --- | ---
`Fn+Esc` | No | Yes | Toggles Fn lock
`Fn+F1` | Yes3 | Yes | `evtest` returns `KEY_MUTE`
`Fn+F2` | Yes3 | Yes | `evtest` returns `KEY_VOLUMEDOWN`
`Fn+F3` | Yes3 | Yes | `evtest` returns `KEY_VOLUMEUP`
`Fn+F4` | Yes3 | Yes | (icon: Mic off)
`Fn+F5` | No | Yes | (icon: Brightness minus)
`Fn+F6` | No | Yes | (icon: Brightness plus)
`Fn+F7` | Yes4 | Yes | ?? (icon: laptop/monitor)
`Fn+F8` | Yes | Yes | `XF86WLAN` 3
`Fn+F9` | Yes | Yes | `XF86Messenger` (icon: speech bubble)
`Fn+F10` | Yes | Yes | `XF86Go` (icon: Telephone up)
`Fn+F11` | Yes | Yes | `Cancel` (icon: Telephone down)
`Fn+F12` | Yes | Yes | `XF86Favorites` (icon: star)
`Fn+End` | Yes | Yes | `Insert`
`Fn+PrtSc` | Yes | Yes | `XF86Launch2` (icon: dashed circle with scissors)
`Fn+b` | Yes | No | `Ctrl_R`
`Fn+i` | Yes | No | `Insert`
`Fn+k` | Yes | No | `Scroll_Lock`
`Fn+l` | Yes | No | `"l"` (most other Fn+<key> combinations do nothing)
`Fn+p` | Yes | No | `Pause`
`Fn+s` | Yes | No | `Alt_R` (Screenshot?)

1. The key is visible to `xev` and similar tools.
2. The physical key has a symbol on it, which describes its function.
3. `xev` only returns a `KeymapNotify event`, but no `KeyPress` or `KeyRelease` events. No keycodes are seen by `xev`.
4. In Xfce4 the display settings program is launched.
5. Unlike some models, `Fn+F8` does *not* send an `XF86RFKill` keypress event. However, it should be possible to bind this to rfkill to achive the same result.

The following xbindkeys configuration may be needed to get volume/mic controls working properly:

    "pactl set-sink-mute @DEFAULT_SINK@ toggle"
        m:0x0 + c:121
        XF86AudioMute
    "pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ +5%"
        m:0x0 + c:123
        XF86AudioRaiseVolume
    "pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ -5%"
        m:0x0 + c:122
        XF86AudioLowerVolume
    "pactl set-source-mute @DEFAULT_SOURCE@ toggle"
        m:0x0 + c:198
        XF86AudioMicMute

## Power Management

Note: Tools like tp_smapi or tpacpi-bat do not work with this device.

This laptop comes with an Intel Core m3-8100Y CPU 1.10GHz CPU. The rated frequencies range from 400MHz - 3.4GHz.

The `intel_pstate` driver is supported, with the `performance` and `powersave` governors supported. CPU scaling works with both governors.

## Sensors

As this is a tablet, an accelerometer is installed and supported by iio-sensor-proxy.

The thinkpad-yoga-scripts-gitAUR may be of interest, although it needs to be converted to Python3, and will have to be modified to detect the ELAN devices (instead of WACOM).

Various temperature sensors are supported by lm_sensors.

The hardware includes neither an ambient light sensor, nor a proximity sensors.

## See also

- ThinkWiki 11e series page
- Lenovo 11e Gen 6 product support page
- Hardware Maintenance Manual
- User Guide

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