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I have a Lenovo Y460 dual booting ubuntu 12.04 and win 7 with lenovo energy management and have encountered something strange.

When i set lenovo energy management in win 7 to "battery lifespan"...

I have a similar problem with my laptop, certain multimedia key combinations not working properly, as Fn key is a hardware key, i cant find a way to detect and map it using xev.

Anyway, one...

Your fingerprint device is the 1st item in the list.

USB Vendor ID 0a5c
USB Product ID 5800

A check on http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/fprint/libfprint/Supported%20devices shows that...

Im currently running the configuration OP mentioned, with my win 7 installation taking up about 70GB and Ubuntu 16GB, still have space to spare.

One reason for installing Ubuntu on my SSD is to...

Do you mean that the Fn key acts like it is "pressed by default" so in order to use a shortcut without the Fn key, you have to "unpress" it?

If i am not wrong, it is not possible to remap Fn key...

I face the same problem with 12.04. Sometimes, instead of boxes, wierd symbols appear.

I solved the issue by restarting gnome.
Ctrl-alt-F1 to go into tty.
Login and run 'sudo /etc/init.d/gdm...

Ubuntu 12.04 32bit
Lenovo
Ideapad Y460

All working out of the box when BIOS set to discrete graphics only. Have not tried Onboard/Switchable graphics but unlikely to work due to lack of a...

Thanks for the help. I found the required driver online and installed it without any problems

I have a USB device which is unsupported in linux. However, another similar device has a driver that would work with my device.

Can i use Udev rules to "spoof" the vendor and product ID of the...