Yoga - Laptop

Note: Built initially for the Lenovo yoga 2 Pro. Works for some other Lenovo Yoga laptops. Depends on which sensor chips are in the laptop.

Systems and information to make Lenovo Ideapad Yoga laptops work better. Best tested for Yoga 2 Pro, but most of this works on other Ideapad Yogas. Thinkpad Yogas may need modifications, and can't use ideapad-laptop.

These systems include kernel modules, so you have to have added kernel-headers and kernel-devel to your system. For the orientation program and sensor drivers you also need to have the IIO subsystem included in your system. If you are running a kernel older than 3.13 you will very likely have problems. If you are running a current kernel you should already have the required drivers and a working ideapad-laptop module.

1/ orientation and light programs

The orientation program re-orients the screen so that the top of the screen is physically up. The program needs the hid-sensor-accel-3d sensor driver. See "docs/Orientation and rotation" for more information.

The light program adjusts the brightness of the screen in response to changes in ambient brightness. The program needs the hid-sensor-als sensor driver.

There is also a generic program that can be used to test sensors - generic_buffer.

You need to have the libXrandr-devel and libnotify-dev package installed.

sudo apt-get install libxrandr-dev libnotify-dev

To compile and install: make programs sudo make programs-install

You may have to first install the sensor drivers, but only do this if necessary because these drivers are old and might cause problems in newer kernels.

To make the screen rotate you need to be running orientation. To make the screen brightness change you need to be running light.

2/ yoga_laptop/ideapad-laptop.c

OBSOLETE, use with caution

Changes to this file should instead be made to the ideapad-laptop kernel module in the Linux kernel.

NOT NEEDED in Fedora 20 or Fedora 19 Probably not needed in 3.16 or newer kernels

A patch to the ideapad-laptop kernel module to make Wifi work on the Yoga 2 Pro. The ideapad-laptop moodule also handles several ACPI-related keys on the Yoga keyboard. A similar patch will be in 3.16, but one that works for the Yoga Ideapad 1 and Yoga 2 11/13/Pro. This better patch has been backported to Fedora 19 and Fedora 20 as of the end of June 2014.

To compile and install (warning - this installs a kernel module and may break your system, and has to be done each time you install a new kernel, after booting into the new kernel): bash make ideapad-laptop bash sudo make ideapad-laptop-install

The installation also sets up udev rules and an xmodmap file to handle the touchpad_toggle and break keys that are not usually handled correctly.

Reboot your system to load the module

3/ sensor drivers

OBSOLETE, use with caution

Changes to these files should instead be made to the appropriate Linux kernel modules

NOT NEEDED in 3.15 kernels or newer or Fedora 19 or newer

Patched 3.14 drivers for five of the sensors in the Yoga laptops. The patch adds a quirk so that the hub initializes correctly. The quirk has been added to 3.15 and 3.15 should have better drivers than the ones here, so don't use these drivers with a 3.15 or newer kernel. The 3.15 drivers also have more quirks, perhaps even the right quirk for the Thinkpad Yoga.

To compile and install (warning - this installs several kernel modules and may break your system, and has to be done each time you install a new kernel, after booting into the new kernel): bash make sensors-drivers bash sudo make sensors-drivers-install Reboot your system to load the drivers

You need to have the libXrandr-devel package installed.