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Hey all, been a while since I posted here, my Y510 dev work has been put on hold due to work... (not all bad, been fiddling with OpenSolaris on the Y510 a bit ... quite impressive ... :D )
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@HunterThomson

Thanks for the kudo's mate. Truth be told, the backlight was getting on my nerves too! :D

I'll post this onto the Lenovo forums in the new year, I'm off on holiday today, and...

You're welcome winnibob!

Just a note to the other users that may be of interest:

The DSDT.dsl will work with BIOS versions 06CN29W, 06CN30W and 06CN31W, as there was no change in the original...

Good News Everyone!

I have a correctly working backlight on my Ideapad Y510! ...

This has been achieved by using a custom DSDT, and nothing else, no fiddling with ACPI or HAL or anything like...

Hey HunterThomson,

Just a quick update.

I have tried setting the ACPI flag to Vista with:


acpi_osi="Windows 2006"

Did not seem to make any difference. I'm assuming that the VISTA ACPI...

Oops that post went in twice for some reason

Hey wyth,

I was curious to check this out, so I tried logging with a guest session on my laptop, but got different results. The backlight control "appears" to be working correct on my laptop when...

Good day all!

Anyone had anymore progress on the backlight issue and the DSDT?

Thanks

Hey folks,

Just been tracking the wireless freeze issue here on the forum for the last day or so ... I've had the same sort of wireless issues, especially when trying to connect to an "open"...

Good day all,

I have been using the Lenovo Ideapad Y510 since April of this year (2008), and have been following this thread since then. (My Y510 never even started the supplied Vista O.S. :) )...