The only things that don't work on my Y560 are some of the function keys (touchpad toggle on fn+f6 and monitor switch on fn+f3) and the extra buttons for camera and battery and that slidy thingy above the keyboard, which is to be expected since it's vendor specific hardware that no one's going to bother writing a module for.

I don't have switchable graphics (those are a pain on Linux I'm told).

Battery life is slightly worse than in Windows.

Currently running Arch Linux (3.5.2 kernel) with KDE 4.9 and proprietary ATI Catalyst driver.

I found quite poor battery and ATi graphics performance in Fedora 15.
The graphics was quite glitchy and battery life reduced by upto 100% - Lenovo's windows power application is quite powerful and appears to have control over the battery at a hardware level.

While it is still useable, the performance benefits outweigh the benefits of Linux on my laptop.

i have lenovo Y560 with i3 procesor and switchable graphics…but when i install ATI drivers from amd.com so after restar “black screen” :(
after aticonfig –initial -f
xorg.conf
Section “ServerLayout”

 Identifier     "aticonfig Layout"
 Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0

EndSection

Section “Module”
EndSection

Section “Monitor”

 Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
 Option       "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
 Option       "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
 Option       "DPMS" "true"

EndSection

Section “Device”

 Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
 Driver      "fglrx"
 BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"

EndSection

Section “Screen”

 Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
 Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
 Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
 DefaultDepth     24
 SubSection "Display"
    Viewport   0 0
    Depth     24
 EndSubSection

EndSection

command@A02-0924:~$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 12)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Madison [Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series]

what i must do ? :(

@diesseits
did you installed the ati propietary driver provided by ubuntu or did you downloaded it fron amd/ati website?. I have tried to install it following different guides/how to's but none have worked for me.

I also have a problem with the cooling fan, it is at max speed ALL the time and the laptop gets very hot nevertheless.
(sorry for my bad english)

Two problems I've noticed:
1. Does not properly detect my hdmi monitor resolution when I plug it in. I have to plug the monitor in, then log out of gnome, then log back in for it to recognize the best resolution.

2. This laptop does not suspend reliably. It probably freezes 3 out of 4 times I close the lid or initiate suspend from the gnome panel even under the latest kernel.

jason@octo:~$ uname -a
Linux octo 2.6.36.3-candela #1 SMP Wed Feb 2 10:55:22 CST 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Other than that I really like it :)

sreejit, you need to do a CD check. It's very possible that your cd is corrupt, not the install.

I successfully installed Ubuntu 10.04 (which I promptly upgraded to 10.10 using the command ”update-manager -d”)on the Lenovo Y560 740QM cpu. BUT, there was a bit of finagling I had to do. I discovered that if I installed directly, without “try ubuntu” first, it would not recognize the keyboard, and even then it sometimes does not register.

I booted Ubuntu 10.04 [64 bit] off the disk with “try ubuntu.” Once booted into the desktop off the disk, I opened up gedit or another program to test if it registers the keyboard. After verifying that the keyboard is recognized, I went ahead in clicked the “Install Ubuntu” icon and everything ran smoothly - ubuntu was installed in about 20 minutes or so. If it did not recognize the keyboard I restarted the computer and tried again, it worked on the second try for me. I manually partitioned my disk, 8gb swap (double ram) and a 230 GB root partition, leaving ~200G for Windows.

sreejit,

Could you give more information about a) where the Ubuntu 10.10 install fails and b) what type of corruption happened to the windows partition (i.e., what happens when you try to boot windows?)

I bought the same laptop and have had an easy time getting Ubuntu 10.10 up and running; so far everything seems to work including the ATI drivers. Perhaps you came a cropper during disk partitioning?

-d

hi all
i have lenovo y560 with the i7 processor ,4GB ram , 1Gb ATI graphics , with preinstalled window 7 , so far all my attempts to install debian lenny and ubuntu 10.10 have gone dud , the debian 64 dvd refuses to boot , and ubuntu just does not get installed completly, although i managed to install ubuntu from within windows , the end result , windows partition also get corrupted , kindly help
sreejit