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# Lenovo IdeaPad U410

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Hardware | PCI/USB ID | Working?
--- | --- | ---
Keyboard | PS/2 | Yes
TouchPad | PS/2 | Yes
GPU (Intel) | `06cb:0166` | Yes
GPU (NVIDIA) | `10de:1058` | Yes
Wi-Fi | `8086:0891` | Yes
Ethernet | `10ec:8136` | Yes
Audio | `8086:1e20` | Yes
Webcam | `04f2:b2e1` | Yes

A rather interesting ultrabook from the early 2010s, featuring an HDD + SSD RAID, and a dedicated NVIDIA GT 610M GPU that is better off not being used.

## Installation

You'll have to decide on whether to keep the preconfigured RAID configuration, which uses the main hard drive, or to ditch the RAID config and install on the SSD. The SSD is only 32GB, which can cause issues when installing large packages like desktop environments or games. It may be best to replace the 32GB mSATA drive with a higher-capacity one, replace the 500GB SATA HDD with an SSD, or install on an SD card.

The laptop can also boot from it's internal SD-card slot, so it can be used as another option to install the OS on, or from.

## Accessibility

This laptop features a primarily text-based UEFI-supported BIOS which is easy to OCR.

The easiest way of entering the boot menu is by pressing on the Novo button on the side, which allows you to bypass the trial and error button mashing. After pressing it you can either enter into the BIOS, boot menu, or One Key Recovery which looks for a recovery partition. Another way of getting into the boot menu is by pressing `F12` during POST. Pressing `F2` during POST will take you to the BIOS.

The BIOS is primarily keyboard navigateable and doesn't need a mouse or trackpad

## Graphics

Most units were shipped with an NVIDIA GT 610M dedicated graphics card (GF119M). It is no longer properly supported by the proprietary NVIDIA driver. You have four options:

- Use kernel mode setting (works out of the box)

- Install xf86-video-nouveau (small improvement)

- Install nvidia-390xx-dkmsAUR (does not support Wayland)

Performance will not be great. Expect frequent freezes under moderate loads.

The last option is to ditch the GPU entirely and use the integrated Intel HD 4000 graphics.

## Firmware

fwupd recognizes the device, but only lists the CPU, the drives, and miscellaneous items such as `ME` and `B140XTN02.3`

## Function keys

Key | Visible?1 | Marked?2 | Effect
--- | --- | --- | ---
Function keys
`Fn+F1` | Yes | Yes | `XF86AudioMute`
`Fn+F2` | Yes | Yes | `XF86LowerVolume`
`Fn+F3` | Yes | Yes | `XF86RaiseVolume`
`Fn+F4` | Yes | Yes | Does nothing (`F4` in xev)
`Fn+F5` | Yes | Yes | Does nothing (`F5` in xev)
`Fn+F6` | Yes | Yes | Toggles touchpad on and off
`Fn+F7` | Yes | Yes | `XF86RFKill`
`Fn+F8` | Yes | Yes | `plusminus`
`Fn+F9` | Yes | Yes | `XF86WebCam`
`Fn+F10` | Yes | Yes | Change external display options (`Super_L` in xev)
`Fn+F11` | Yes | Yes | `XF86MonBrightnessDown`
`Fn+F12` | Yes | Yes | `XF86MonBrightnessUp`
Side keys
`Fn+Home` | Yes | Yes | Pause
`Fn+End` | Yes | Yes | Break
`Fn+Page Up` | Yes | Yes | Scroll Lock
`Fn+Page Down` | Yes | Yes | Insert

1. The key is visible to `xev` and similar tools.
2. The physical key has a symbol on it, which describes its function.

## See also

- Laptop/Lenovo
- Hardware Probe

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- Lenovo

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