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In conclusion: Think twice thrice as much as you can before you buy any Lenovo Product. Its not that Lenovo builds bad product. I am using Lenovo Y510 since last three years or so. It has great sound, is very strong and overall its very good. But unfortunately there is a design flaw with some Lenovo Ideapad series specially Y510. The hinge in Y510 are so strong that after some span of time the plastics base in which the hinge is mounted starts to break. Take a look at pictures of one user's Y510. OK, shit happens, has happened with many company. Only different thing is Lenovo here didn't stand by its product. There is already 63 pages long forum post on Lenovo's official forum filled with people complaining about the product. Some lucky users got chance to fix it for free. But Lenovo never acknowledged the problem, never did recall nor informed its users that they are fixing it for free. Most astonishing thing is even though the forum is a...

First read this  http://techspalace.blogspot.com/2010/02/upside-down-web-cam-simple-fix.html If you have same problem but in other program like Flash and so, then the fix is same. Just run the executable of the desire program instead of Skype. For eg. if you have problem with upside down cam in flash and you are using some browser(lets say Google Chrome) to video chat then: Close the browser. Run in terminal: LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib32/libv4l/v4l1compat.so google-chrome or if it is 32 bit system LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so google-chrome

Many laptop put their webcam upside down resulting in flipped images in Ubuntu. There were fixes for some but for some you had to physically remount the camera. The webcam that comes with Lenovo Ideapad Y510 is also mounted upside down. Unluckily there wasn't any simple fix for this. (some people rotated the camera physically). Fortunately Hans de Goede  came with a beautiful solution . Open Terminal and add libv4l ppa sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libv4l/ppa Update your software list sudo aptitude update Install libv4l sudo aptitude install libv4l-0 You have to use the following command to open any application that uses webcam LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so application_name If you use 64 bit system, use the following command LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib32/libv4l/v4l1compat.so application_name

Lenovo Y510 has go 4.1 sound system with a sub- woofer (Dolby Home Theater) Default installation of Ubuntu doesn't recognises all four speaker. There are few fix going on the Internet. There is one problem with those fixes, i.e. headphone doesn't mute the speakers. So you have to manually mute and un-mute the speaker while using the headphone. However I have found one fix, that recognises all four speaker and one sub-woofer, mutes and un-mutes them while using headphone, and produces 5.1 surround sound. Open /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base for editing. (you need root access) Open /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf if you are using Fedora (Thanks to the Anonymous user) add the following line at the end options snd_hda_intel model=6stack-dell save and reboot. Now, go to Audio Preferences and select "6ch" under the options tab. You are all done, test it with the command "speaker-test -Dplug:surround51 -c6 -twav" Note: If you have updated your system...

If your brightness function keys are reversed then here is the simplest solution you could possibly have. Go to System, Preferences, Power Management Set " Set Display brightness to: " to zero (0) That's it.