Lenovo IdeaPad Y500

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The Lenovo IdeaPad Y500 is a modular laptop with the ability to replace the CD-ROM drive with an SSD/HDD/GPU. The hardware is supported by Linux very well.

Hardware

Standard

Tip
The CD-ROM drive can be easily replaced with an additional SSD/HDD/GPU.
Device Make/model Status Vendor ID / Product ID Kernel driver(s) Kernel version Notes
CPU Intel® Core™ i7-3630QM Works N/A N/A 3.11
GPU NVIDIA Corporation GK107M [GeForce GT 650M / GTX 660M LE] Works 10de:0fd1 N/A 3.11
SSD SanDisk® U100 SSD Works N/A N/A 3.11
HDD Seagate ST1000LM024 Works N/A N/A 3.11
Sound Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller Works 8086:1e20 N/A 3.11
Ethernet Qualcomm Atheros AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet Works 1969:1091 N/A 3.11
Wi-Fi Intel® Centrino® Wireless-N 2230 Works N/A N/A 3.11
SD Card Reader JMicron Technology Corp. Standard SD Host Controller Works 197b:2391 N/A 3.11
Touchpad N/A Works N/A N/A 3.11
CD-ROM drive N/A Works N/A N/A 3.11
Webcam N/A Works N/A N/A 3.11
root #lspci -nn
root #lsusb

Installation

Kernel

KERNEL Ethernet (kernel version 3.11)
--- Ethernet driver support                                              
       [*]   Atheros devices                                                    
       < >     Atheros L2 Fast Ethernet support                                 
       < >     Atheros/Attansic L1 Gigabit Ethernet support                     
       < >     Atheros L1E Gigabit Ethernet support                             
       < >     Atheros L1C Gigabit Ethernet support                             
       <M>     Qualcomm Atheros AR816x/AR817x support                           
       [ ]   Broadcom devices
KERNEL Webcam (kernel version 3.11)
-> Device Drivers                                                  
         -> Multimedia support                               
           -> Media USB Adapters
      *** Webcam devices ***                                           
<M>   USB Video Class (UVC)                                            
[*]     UVC input events device support

Emerge

FILE /etc/portage/package.use/00input
*/* INPUT_DEVICES: synaptics evdev
FILE /etc/portage/package.use/00video
*/* VIDEO_CARDS: -* nvidia

Configuration

Xorg

Touchpad

Tip
If the touchpad is too slow/fast, change the speed parameters.
FILE /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-touchpad.conf
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "touchpad"
        MatchProduct "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
        Driver "synaptics"
        # tweak the X-server pointer acceleration
        Option "AccelerationProfile" "2"
        Option "AdaptiveDeceleration" "16"
        Option "ConstantDeceleration" "16"
        Option "VelocityScale" "32"
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