Lenovo Yoga 3 11 WLAN (Atheros QCA6174) under Ubuntu Linux 15.10

Picture of the screen rotation indicator

If you want to use Linux, you should always buy „well-hung“ hardware. That is, hardware that has been on the market for longer than 6 months and whose required drivers have already made it into the Linux kernel. Well, I’ve known this wisdom for 10 years now and still don’t manage to stick to it…


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Ubuntu Screen Rotation Indicator for Lenovo Yoga 3 11

Picture of Rotation Indicator

UPDATE APRIL 2017: Canonical will stop the development of Unity and thus the „Screen Rotation Indicator“ is obsolete. It is also no longer needed, since GNOME Desktop supports automatic screen rotation by default (tested with Yoga 3 11). This also really works 1a and is a much better solution 🙂 However for educational purpose the GitHub repository is still there.

I have owned a new toy in the form of a Lenovo Yoga 3 11 for a few months now. The Yoga is a convertible, also called a multimode notebook by Lenovo, where the touchscreen can be folded back 180 degrees. This turns it into a tablet.


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