Warning: This page is a work in progress!

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

General

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

Further details from dmidecode:

System Information
       Manufacturer: LENOVO
       Product Name: 20SES14K00
       Version: ThinkPad 11e Yoga Gen 6
       SKU Number: LENOVO_MT_20SE_BU_Think_FM_ThinkPad 11e Yoga Gen 6
       Family: ThinkPad 11e Yoga Gen 6
Base Board Information
       Manufacturer: LENOVO
       Product Name: 20SES14K00
       Version: SDK0J40697 WIN


Installation

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.

Video

An Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 615 (rev 02) video card is installed. It is supported out of the box by the Intel i915 driver.


Audio

Basic audio using PipeWire works without issue. See #Keyboard for notes on mute/volume hotkeys.


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

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

CPU Performance Scaling

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.

Suspend

Appears to work out of the box using Pipewire.

Microphone

Warning: Untested

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