Lenovo Yoga 7i Gen 8 (16IRL8)
| Hardware | PCI/USB ID | Working? |
|---|---|---|
| GPU | 8086:a7a0 | Yes |
| Wireless | 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 sof-firmware for audio drivers.
Issues with speakers and the microphone are fixed since Kernel version 6.6.
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 evsieveAUR (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-emitterAUR 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
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).