Lenovo yoga 730

Install

Packages

Packages to install

Package	purpose
iio-sensor-proxy	Auto brightness
bolt	Thunderbolt 3
xf86-input-wacom	Digitiser/Pen support
nvidia	For external GPU
intel-compute-runtime	For OpenCL CPU support

Suspend

If closing the lid doesn't suspend. In /etc/systemd/logind.conf uncomment the following:

/etc/systemd/logind.conf/etc/systemd/logind.conf

HandleSuspendKey=suspend
HandleLidSwitch=suspend

Backlight

Works in gnome but can be reduced so far that it goes off, leaving the screen black.

One of these kernel parameters might fix this:

kernel parameters

acpi_backlight=video
acpi_backlight=vendor
acpi_backlight=native

Installing iio-sensor-proxy does auto brightness.

Fingerprint reader

The device is Bus 001 Device 005: ID 06cb:0081 Synaptics, Inc. Nether fprint nor thinkfinger^AUR work, but there is a prototype driver here.

Thunderbolt 3

Works once you install bolt.

Note: TODO: Add links to authoritative information on tb3

This can be temperamental, it may require unplugging and re-plugging the eGPU.

eGPU

This was tested with a Gigabyte Aorus 1070. Bumblebee might blacklist the nvidia module, comment out the nvidia modules in /usr/lib/modprobe.d/bumblebee.conf so that it looks like this:

/usr/lib/modprobe.d/bumblebee.conf

#blacklist nvidia
#blacklist nvidia-drm
#blacklist nvidia-modeset
#blacklist nvidia-uvm
blacklist nouveau

The following allows Xorg to use the GPU if it exists - you'll need to ether delay the Xorg startup or restart it once the device is fully active.

xorg.conf for both external and internal graphics

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier  "eGPU"
    # The two screens allow the server to start in one of two modes
    Screen 0 "eGPUScreen"
    Inactive "Intel"   
    Screen 1 "IntelScreen"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "eGPU"
    Driver      "nvidia"
    VendorName  "NVIDIA Corporation"
    Option "NoLogo" "true"
    Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration"
    Option "AllowExternalGpus"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier   "Intel"
    Driver       "intel"
    VendorName   "Intel"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "eGPUScreen"
    Device     "eGPU"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "IntelScreen"
    Device     "Intel"
EndSection

You can use this script to delay the display manager until the device is fully configured.

/usr/local/bin/wait-for-egpu.sh

#!/bin/bash
DEVICE=/dev/dri/card1

# switch to our vt to see the messages
chvt 2
delay=30
wait=1

#while [ \( ! -c "$DEVICE" \) -a $delay -gt 1 -a `cat /sys/class/power_supply/AC*/online` != "1" ] ; do
while [ $wait -gt 0 -a $delay -gt 1 ]; do

        if [ \( -c "$DEVICE" \) -a `cat /sys/class/power_supply/AC*/online` == "1" ] ; then
                echo $'\e[32;1meGPU present, on AC power.\e[0m'
        elif [ -c "$DEVICE" ]; then
                echo $'\e[33;1meGPU present but no power.\e[0m'
        else
                echo $'\e[31;1mNo eGPU.\e[0m'
        fi

        echo "Press 'Y' to continue to Login. Press 'W' to wait forever. Any other key to rescan."

        if read -r -s -n 1 -t 5 key ; then

                if [ "$key" == "y" -o "$key" == "Y" ]; then
                        wait=0
                elif [ "$key" == "w" -o "$key" == "W" ]; then
                        wait=2
                fi
        elif [ $wait -eq 1 ]; then
                let "delay -= 5"
                echo "Waiting for ${delay} more seconds for eGPU."
        fi

done

Add the systemd setup file below and activate it with systemctl daemon-reload and systemctl enable wait-for-egpu

/etc/systemd/system/wait-for-egpu.service

[Unit]
Description=Simple interactive dialog window
After=getty@tty2.service
Before=display-manager.service

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/wait-for-egpu.sh
StandardInput=tty
TTYPath=/dev/tty2
TTYReset=yes
TTYVHangup=yes

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Dock Stations

Wavlink USB-C Ultra 5K Universal Docking Station

Feature	Status
USB-C	Working
USB 3.0	Working
Audio Jack	Working
Gigabit Ethernet	Working
HDMI 1 & 2	Only X11, requires DisplayLink
DisplayPort 1 & 2	Untested
5K Combo (Joined DisplayPorts)	Untested

Warning: Some Windows Managers running in Wayland will freeze your system completely if there is a display connected to the dock station, requiring a reboot. This is the case of SwayWM.

Note: DisplayLink has stated here that they are working to bring eGPU/DisplayLink multimonitor support to Wayland through GNOME and a patch was submitted for GNOME 3.32

Tablet mode

Try gnome extension slide-for-keyboard, keyboard automatically disables under gnome.

Pen

install xf86-input-wacom

External display

HDMI on USB-C adapter just works

Issues

USB-C Charging

With the Gigabyte Aorus 1070 Gaming box, the charging sometimes stops. Doesn't seem to happen in Windows.