Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga (Gen 6)

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Hardware PCI/USB ID Working?
Touchpad 06cb:00fc Yes
TrackPoint Yes
Keyboard Yes
Video 8086:9a49 Yes
Webcam 04f2:b6ea Yes
Bluetooth Yes
Wireless 8086:a0f0 Yes
Audio 8086:a0c8 Yes
Mobile broadband Untested
Fingerprint reader Yes
Accelerometer Yes

The 6th generation of the Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Yoga is an Intel based 2-in-1 laptop with a 14 inches touch screen introduced in 2021. The laptop screen can be folded over transforming the device in a tablet like tool, and it comes with a stylus as an extra form of input. It uses the Intel Iris Xe graphic card and the 11th generation of Intel processors.

Firmware

In August of 2018 Lenovo has joined the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) project, which enables firmware updates from within the OS. BIOS updates (and possibly other firmware such as the Thunderbolt controller) can be queried for and installed through fwupd.

Fingerprint sensor

Install the latest fprintd package.

Audio

You may need to install the sof-firmware package.

Video

There is no need to install any special package, however as of Kernel 5.12 the i915 video driver suffers from glitches and lags making the use of the device frustrating. To workaround the issue it is possible to tweak the energy saving strategy of the driver by passing the relevant parameter to the kernel.

The parameter i915.enable_dc can take a value from -1 (default) up to 4, where 4 is the most aggressive form of power saving. Setting it to 2 seems to get rid of any pointer lag and rendering artifact.

i915.enable_dc=2

The issue is known upstream and should be fixed in a future release of the kernel.

Accelerometer

To make this devices work with GNOME you need to install iio-sensor-proxy package.

This will allow the display to rotate as the device is oriented in different direction.