Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura (15ILL9)
| 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
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). While basic suspend functionality works, the following issues have been observed (with kernel 6.14.5-arch1-1 and UEFI version NYCN67WW) after resuming:
- Screen brightness controls via keyboard (
F5andF6) stop working—screen brightness can still be adjusted through the OS controls, with mouse or touchpad. - Keyboard backlight fails to resume. While
Fn+Spacecorrectly updates the value in:/sys/class/leds/platform::kbd_backlight/brightness
the physical lights remain off.
Known issues
- After resuming from suspend on the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura (15ILL9), the fans do not turn on under Linux, 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.
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.