Thinkpad W510

What I like

• used and was fairly pricy, whcih gave me the ability to to some fancy stuff (SSD, Ram)
• has the "old" keyboard style
• only nvidia, don't need intel (hybrid graphics)
• no fingerprint
• umts
• webcam
• usb 3.0 (NEC)
• 4 x 1.6 GHz (up to 2.8 GHz) - 8 Threads. That's more you'll ever need for real work. I mainly do virtualisation, programming, photo and office tasks.
• 16 GB ram (four banks, up to 32GB)
• 500 GB SSD Samsung Evo PRO - see, problems!

That's it folks. Work, don't play around!

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  System with Ubuntu Linux Desktop and Docking.

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  Standard german keyboard.

Hardware

Model: 4391-E46 (CTO)

• no bluethooth at this model - just added a tiny cheep bluethooth 4.0 dongle which works fine.
• no wireless lan, but adding a gobi 2000 worked fine - everything was prepared.

# dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date
6NET84WW (1.45 )
10/03/2012

# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DMI (rev 11)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 11)
00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Core Processor System Management Registers (rev 11)
00:08.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Core Processor Semaphore and Scratchpad Registers (rev 11)
00:08.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Core Processor System Control and Status Registers (rev 11)
00:08.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Core Processor Miscellaneous Registers (rev 11)
00:10.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link (rev 11)
00:10.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Routing and Protocol Registers (rev 11)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller (rev 06)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82577LM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 06)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 06)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 06)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev 06)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev 06)
00:1c.6 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 7 (rev 06)
00:1c.7 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 8 (rev 06)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a6)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller (rev 06)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT216GLM [Quadro FX 880M] (rev a2)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 (rev 35)
0d:00.0 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd MMC/SD Host Controller (rev 01)
0d:00.1 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5U2xx (R5U230 / R5U231 / R5U241) [Memory Stick Host Controller] (rev 01)
0f:00.0 USB controller: NEC Corporation uPD720200 USB 3.0 Host Controller (rev 03)
17:00.0 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd MMC/SD Host Controller (rev 01)
17:00.3 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 PCIe IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 01)
ff:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-Core Registers (rev 04)
ff:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 04)
ff:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 (rev 04)
ff:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 (rev 04)
ff:03.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller (rev 04)
ff:03.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Target Address Decoder (rev 04)
ff:03.4 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Test Registers (rev 04)
ff:04.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0 Control Registers (rev 04)
ff:04.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0 Address Registers (rev 04)
ff:04.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0 Rank Registers (rev 04)
ff:04.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0 Thermal Control Registers (rev 04)
ff:05.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 1 Control Registers (rev 04)
ff:05.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 1 Address Registers (rev 04)
ff:05.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 1 Rank Registers (rev 04)
ff:05.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 1 Thermal Control Registers (rev 04)

# lsusb
Bus 002 Device 017: ID 05c6:9205 Qualcomm, Inc. 
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 17ef:480f Lenovo Integrated Webcam [R5U877]
Bus 001 Device 016: ID 17ef:100a Lenovo ThinkPad Mini Dock Plus Series 3
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

Operation System

• Working on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
• Updated to Ubuntu 13.10

Nvidia Quadro FX

VDPAU

sudo apt-get install livdpau-va-driver bvdpau-va-gl1 vainfo

For flashplayer:

sudo mkdir /etc/adobe/ && sudo bash -c "echo 'EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1' >> /etc/adobe/mms.cfg"

X11

Problems with brightness-control with the nvidia card.

vim /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "DefaultDevice"
    Option         "NoLogo" "True"
    Option         "RegistryDwords" "EnableBrightnessControl=1"
EndSection

Troubleshooting

Samsung SSD

[SOLVED]: The lenovo support changed the mainboard. A Crucial M500 480Gb is running fine.

If you encounter the problems mentioned in this paragraph, it is likelely that your mainboard is out of order. --Apos (talk) 11:52, 11 March 2014 (CET)

[ NOT SOLVED]: Returned the EVO 840 and got a Samsung EVO 840 PRO. Returned the PRO, bought a Crucial M500 480 - system freezes.

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1266305

--Apos (talk) 09:45, 14 January 2014 (CET)

I had real trouble with the EVO and PRO models and had to return the drive:

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1265309

So I did added some boot params and as time of writing a did freezes do occur, but not that many any more. (--Apos (talk) 20:40, 5 January 2014 (CET))

sudo vim /etc/default/grub

[...]
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash libata.force=1:3.0G,2:1,5G libata.force=noncq"
[...]

Power supply not enough - use standard 135 W

Due to the components that rely on a lot of power in this laptop, an original 135 W power supply is needed! Do not use a power supply from another manufacture (no name). You will not succeed!

If you don't do this, the laptop components do not run at full speed!

Solution: None! Use the 135W power supply or run at battery power.

Ultrabay

Eject the ultrabay

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_hotswap_Ultrabay_devices#Script_for_Ultrabay_eject

Create this script and run it as root!

Don't forget to alter the DEVICEPATH path at the beginning of the scrip according to your machine!.

udevadm info --query=path --name=/dev/sr0 | perl -pe 's!/block/...$!!'

Make the button for the DVD drive less sensitive

The problem is caused by udev

sudo cp /lib/udev/rules.d/60-cdrom_id.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/.

Uncomment the containing ENV{DISK_EJECT_REQUEST}

sudo vim /etc/udev/rules.d/60-cdrom_id.rules

# media eject button pressed
#ENV{DISK_EJECT_REQUEST}=="?*", RUN+="cdrom_id --eject-media $devnode", GOTO="cdrom_end"

Restart udev

 sudo service udev force-reload
 sudo service udev restart

You should emediately see, that the button.

Lock the device button

Lock:

eject -i on /dev/sr0

Unlock:

eject -i off /dev/sr0

Toggle script:

#!/bin/bash 

DEVICE="/dev/sr0"

if eject "${DEVICE}"
then
        eject -i on "${DEVICE}"
else
        eject -i off "${DEVICE}"
fi

Put this into startup:

#!/bin/bash
DEVICE="/dev/sr0"
eject -i on "${DEVICE}"