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# Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura (15ILL9)

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Hardware | PCI/USB ID | Working?
--- | --- | ---
Keyboard |  | Yes
Touchpad | `04F3:06FA` | Yes
Touchscreen | `4858:3132` | Yes
GPU | `8086:9a49` | Yes
Audio | `8086:a828` | Yes
Webcam | `30c9:00CA` | Yes
Wi-Fi | `8086:A840` | Yes
Bluetooth | `8087:0037` | Yes
TPM |  | Yes
Fan(s) |  | Only works after boot and before suspend/resume

Most functionality works out of the box with kernel 6.15 and UEFI (also misnamed BIOS) version NYCN69WW. Users with previous UEFI versions should upgrade to NYCN67WW or later, as it has been reported that earlier versions prevented Linux from running properly on this laptop.

## Video

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The KDE display settings detect the screen's brightness range as HDR-capable, and HDR controls are available.

VLC correctly utilizes available hardware acceleration, enabling video playback with minimal CPU usage.

Hardware-accelerated video decoding works in Firefox (confirmed through testing).

## Screen brightness

Brightness controls function correctly at boot, but the function keys (`Fn+F5`/`Fn+F6`) become unresponsive after resuming from suspend (see Suspend). Screen brightness can still be adjusted through the OS controls, with mouse or touchpad.

## Keyboard backlight

The keyboard backlight functions correctly at boot but fails to restart after resuming from suspend (see Suspend).

## Suspend

The system only supports `s2idle` sleep mode (as shown by `cat /sys/power/mem_sleep`).

## Known issues

- While basic suspend functionality works, the following issues are currently observed after resuming:
  - the fans do not turn on, causing the system to overheat. This is reproducible on kernel 6.15.4.zen2-1 and BIOS NYCN69WW. No workaround is known; only a full reboot restores fan functionality. See this Arch Linux forum discussion for details.
  - Screen brightness controls via keyboard (`F5` and `F6`) stop working—screen brightness can still be adjusted through the OS controls, with mouse or touchpad.
  - Keyboard backlight fails to resume. While `Fn+Space` correctly updates the value in:

        /sys/class/leds/platform::kbd_backlight/brightness

    the physical lights remain off.

An alternative to suspension is provided by the yoga-slim-7i-aura-suspend script, tested to work on KDE Plasma and kernel versions above 6.16.

## Firmware

fwupd does not support BIOS updates for this model. BIOS updates are only provided by Lenovo as Windows .exe files.

A workaround is to execute the installer from a custom Windows PE image.

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