Lenovo Yoga 9 14ITL5

Hardware	PCI/USB ID	Working?
Touchpad		Yes
Keyboard		Yes
Touchscreen		Yes
Stylus		Yes
Video	8086:9a49	Yes
Webcam (Chicony)	04f2:b61e	Yes
Bluetooth	8087:0026	Yes
Audio	8086:a0c8	Yes
Wireless	8086:a0f0	Yes
Accelerometer	8086:a0fc	Yes
Tablet mode trigger		Yes
Fingerprint reader	0bda:5812	No

Installation

Use F2 to enter BIOS. You must disable Secure Boot to be able to boot from the installation media. UEFI boot mode (OS Optimized Defaults) is working fine and can be used.

Should you have enabled the VMD controller in the BIOS, you must add vmd to the mkinitcpio.conf array before you regenerate the initramfs. See also .

Firmware

Support for firmware updates through fwupd is supported. But Lenovo so far only provides firmware updates for devices where Linux is officially supported (Thinkpad/ThinkCentre series). As this is not a device of these series, do not expect firmware updates through fwupd.

Firmware updates through fwupd are supported (but unavailable) for the following components:

• System firmware (Lenovo)
• UEFI (Lenovo)
• NVM Express Solid State Drive (Sandisk)

Suspend

Suspending to system sleep state S3 is not available on the Intel 11th gen mobile CPUs found in this laptop . Forcibly suspending the device to S3 leads to it locking up. If this happens, you can restore your device to working order via a hard reset. To hard reset the Yoga 9, press the power button for at least 15 seconds.

More recent Linux kernels will instead detect and use system sleep state S0ix automatically, this leads to a battery drain of ~0.4%/hour, or ~5% over 12 hours . If you wish to further reduce battery drain during sleep you can use hibernation as the action when the lid is closed.

Accelerometer

You must use instead of for the accelerometer to work. It is important to note, that the trigger for tablet mode does currently not work. At least within KDE you can enable automatic screen rotation only globally.

Sound

This laptop requires firmware in order for the soundcard to work. See Advanced Linux Sound Architecture#ALSA firmware.

Thermals

It is recommended to enable in the BIOS settings. Enabling this option improves the thermal properties of the system tremendously. Without it, thermald will not throttle the system before it is near its critical temperature. You may want to select the appropriate cooling strategy in the BIOS (intelligent/performance/power saving).

Power management

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

To set the Battery Conservation Mode see Laptop/Lenovo#Battery conservation mode.

Wireless devices

Rfkill reports two additional devices (ideapad_wlan, ideapad_bluetooth). Blocking or unblocking these devices has no effect. Instead use the devices:

• for Wireless LAN
• for Bluetooth

Function keys

Fn lock only locks for to . The and the buttons still require the use of even with Fn lock enabled.

The keys and Fn+PrintScreen only function with .

Key	Visible?^1	Marked?^2	Effect
Fn+Esc	No	Yes	Toggles Fn lock
	Yes	Yes
	Yes	Yes
	Yes	Yes
	Yes	Yes	XF86AudioMicMute
	Yes	Yes
	Yes	Yes	XF86MonBrightnessUp
	Yes	Yes
	Yes	Yes
Fn+F9	Yes	Yes
	Yes	Yes
	Yes	Yes
	Yes	Yes	XF86Calculator
"Star" with 'S'	Yes^4	Yes
"Star" with 'S' (long pressed)	Yes^4	Yes
"Dashed circle" with "scissor"	Yes^4	Yes
Fn+Space	No	Yes	Cycles states of keyboard backlight
	Yes	Yes	(in xev )
	Yes	Yes	(in xev )
Fn+Left	Yes	Yes
	Yes	Yes

1. The key is visible to xev and similar tools.
2. The physical key has a symbol on it, which describes its function.
3. systemd-logind handles this by default.
4. Only with

Tablet Mode

Installing will generate the necessary events to trigger tablet mode.