Thinkpad W510

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

90W 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