Lenovo Yoga 7i Gen 8 (16IRL8)

Hardware
PCI/USB ID
Working?
GPU
8086:a7a0
Yes
Wi-Fi
8086:51f1
Yes
Bluetooth
8087:0033
Yes
Storage
15b7:5016
Yes
Audio
8086:51ca
Yes
Webcam
174f:181d
Yes
Micro SD-Card Reader
10ec:522a
Yes
Fingerprint Reader
27c6:55b4
Yes
Keyboard
Yes
Touchpad
Yes
Touchscreen
Yes
Digital Pen
Yes
Accelerometer
Yes
Lid Switch
Yes
Tablet Mode Control Switch
Yes
The
Lenovo Yoga 7i
Gen 8, model 16IRL8, is an Intel powered
2-in-1 convertible laptop
with a 16 inch display.
It has been released in the first half of 2023.
The tested configuration (82YN004RGE) includes the Intel i7-1360P CPU, WD PC SN740 1TB SSD and a BOE 1600p panel.
Firmware
UEFI menus
Press
F2
to access the UEFI firmware settings and
F12
for the boot menu.
Options
Additionally to typical options (
Secure Boot
, Storage Control Mode, Hyperthreading,
Virtualization
, Always on USB, WLAN, ...) it is also possible to change the thermal control mode (battery saving, intelligent cooling, extreme performance) through the UEFI settings.
'Flip to Start' can be activated/deactivated as well, which turns the PC on when the lid is opened, like a power button press would do.
Updates
The webcam, SPI controller, system and UEFI firmware,
TPM
and
SSD
are displayed updatable in
fwupd
.
However, this has not been tested.
Graphics
Drivers
Install the
mesa
package for the Intel graphics driver.
Install
intel-media-driver
for hardware accelerated decoding.
Issues
With the 1600p display version, there was noticeable screen tearing with
X11
.
Switching to
Wayland
solved this issue.
Audio
Install
Sound Open Firmware
for audio drivers.
Inputs
Keyboard
The keyboard and function keys work out of the box.
A list of function keys can be found in
Lenovo Yoga 7i#Function keys
.
Pen
The Lenovo Digital Pen 2 works as expected.
You can remap the pen buttons using
xinput
(X11) or
evsieve
AUR
(Wayland).
Fingerprint reader
Experimental support for the fingerprint reader can be enabled using the approach in
Lenovo Yoga 7i#Fingerprint reader
.
Tablet Mode
The accelerometer and tablet mode switch are supported through
iio-sensor-proxy
.
This enables both screen rotation detection as well as tablet mode.
Make sure your desktop environment supports these features, see
Tablet PC#Rotation
.
Webcam
The webcam works out of the box.
The IR camera is recognized as a secondary webcam.
However, by default the IR emitter does not activate, use
linux-enable-ir-emitter
AUR
to configure the driver correctly to make authentication using
howdy
possible.
Just follow the steps
on GitHub
.
Power management
Power saving mode
power-profiles-daemon
supports the laptop's power saving modes.
Sleep modes
S2 deep sleep mode works by default without issues.
In consumes around 0.2W in this mode, which is equivalent to around 0.3% of battery capacity per hour.
Workarounds to enable S3 sleep, like in
Lenovo Yoga 7i#Activating S3 sleep
, have not been tested.
Battery conservation mode
See
Laptop/Lenovo#Battery conservation mode
Fan speed
Fan speed settings are controlled by the BIOS and are not available through
lm_sensors
.
However, in the UEFI firmware settings menu three different modes can be selected (battery saving, intelligent cooling, extreme performance).
See also
Lenovo Yoga 7i
Laptop/Lenovo