Lenovo Yoga 11e Gen 6

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Hardware
PCI/USB ID
Working?
GPU (Intel)
8086:591c
Yes
Wi-Fi
10ec:8852
Yes
Bluetooth
0bda:4852
Yes
Audio
8086:9d71
Yes
TouchPad
???
(Elan)
Yes
Touchscreen
???
(Elan)
Yes
Webcam
04f2:b616
04f2:b6d9
Yes
TPM
-
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, make sure you have access to the
dmidecode
program and run:
# dmidecode -t system | grep Version
Version: ThinkPad 11e Yoga Gen 6
Installation
EFI
booting works without issue.
See
#Firmware
on how to change UEFI settings, and access the boot menu to load an Arch installation medium.  The overall installation is straightforward.
When installing over wireless, the interface is powered off, and the
F8
hotkey does not function.  The interface can be enabled by running
rfkill toggle all
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 an
EFI boot stub
rather than
GRUB
. In addition to various
dm-crypt
wiki pages,
[1]
[
dead link
2025-08-15—HTTP 404]
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
Key
Visible?
1
Marked?
2
Effect
Fn+Esc
No
Yes
Toggles Fn lock
Fn+F1
Yes
3
Yes
evtest
returns
KEY_MUTE
Fn+F2
Yes
3
Yes
evtest
returns
KEY_VOLUMEDOWN
Fn+F3
Yes
3
Yes
evtest
returns
KEY_VOLUMEUP
Fn+F4
Yes
3
Yes
(icon: Mic off)
Fn+F5
No
Yes
(icon: Brightness minus)
Fn+F6
No
Yes
(icon: Brightness plus)
Fn+F7
No
3
Yes
(icon: laptop/monitor)
Fn+F8
Yes
Yes
XF86WLAN
4
(icon: wireless)
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?)
The key is visible to
xev
and similar tools.
The physical key has a symbol on it, which describes its function.
xev
only returns a
KeymapNotify event
, but no
KeyPress
or
KeyRelease
events.  No keycodes are seen by
xev
.
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
Bluetooth
Bluetooth works, but
rfkill
may report a "hard blocked" device (
tpacpi_bluetooth_sw
below).
$ rfkill
ID TYPE      DEVICE                   SOFT      HARD
 0 bluetooth tpacpi_bluetooth_sw unblocked   blocked
 2 wlan      phy0                unblocked unblocked
13 bluetooth hci0                unblocked unblocked
As there is no hardware disable switch on this system (including
F8
), unblocking this device is not possible.  However, the
hci0
is the one actually used, so functionality is there.  Some tools may not work correctly, as they assume a single Bluetooth device;
blueberry
AUR
for example.
bluetuith
AUR
and
blueman
both seem to work fine.
Touchpad
Rarely, the touchpad will stop responding after resuming from suspend, but the keyboard works fine.  This can be fixed by removing, and re-adding the
elan_i2c
module:
# modprobe -r elan_i2c
# modprobe elan_i2c
Power Management
Note
Tools like
tp_smapi
or
tpacpi-bat
AUR
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. Behavior is sometimes inconsistent:  frequencies stay low even under 100% CPU load, or remain high when the system is generally idle.  This behavior is not yet completely understood, but may be similar to
Lenovo ThinkPad T480#CPU stuck at minimum frequency
{{Tip|Immediately after resuming from suspend, the CPU is often throttled, even when using the "performance" governor.  Forcing a second suspend/resume (
e.g.
closing the lid and re-opening) should allow CPU scaling to work properly.  The
throttled
program can mitigate this issue without re-suspending.
The short script below will flip the governor between "performance" and "powersave" options.  With minor modification, it can be bound to one of the unused
#Function Keys
hotkey as a convenient toggle.  It may work on other systems as well.
#!/bin/bash
# This toggles fast/slow mode on the laptop.
# Needs root privs

if [[ $(id -u) -ne 0 ]]; then
    echo "Please run as root"
    exit 1
fi

CUR_POLICY=$(cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy0/scaling_governor)

echo "Current: $CUR_POLICY"

case "$CUR_POLICY" in
powersave)
    /usr/bin/cpupower -c all frequency-set -g performance
    /usr/bin/cpupower -c all frequency-set --min 1600MHz
    /usr/bin/cpupower -c all set -b 0  # Set the performance/powersave bias
    ;;

performance)
    /usr/bin/cpupower -c all frequency-set -g powersave
    /usr/bin/cpupower -c all frequency-set --min 400MHz
    /usr/bin/cpupower -c all set -b 6  # Set the performance/powersave bias
    ;;

esac

NEW_POLICY=$(cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy0/scaling_governor)
echo "Current: $NEW_POLICY"
Sensors
As this is a tablet, an accelerometer is installed and supported by
iio-sensor-proxy
.
The
thinkpad-yoga-scripts-git
AUR
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