I was particularly hoping to pick up on a decent boxing day sale today. Are there any particular laptops you might recommend that support Bumblebee and Optimus? I had particularly liked this machine for its features and price.
Is there any sort of list available of machines that fully support it? Thanks, Simon On 2011-12-26, at 6:17 AM, Lekensteyn <[email protected]> wrote: > Gary, > > I've digged in your tables, have a look at > https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/issues/149#issuecomment-3273992 > > Regards, > Lekensteyn > > On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Gary Gatling <[email protected]> wrote: > My suggestion is do not buy a lenovo ideapad yet. > > https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/issues/53 > > https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/issues/149 > > https://github.com/MrMEEE/ironhide/issues/100 > > Does not work at all with nvidia chip. I have a ideapad y470 but reportedly > it does not work even with nouveau drivers with Bumblebee. Since nouveau > doesn't even work on a Y470, Lenovo must be doing some really weird stuff > internally. Avoid like the plague. > > I have not seen anyone have success yet with an ideapad and post about it on > the web somewhere. I would be SOOO happy to be proven wrong about this > however. :) > > http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Linux-Discussion/Optimus-in-Linux-Ideapad-Y570/td-p/490107 > > http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Linux-Discussion/Y570-There-are-no-drivers-for-GF-555-M-graphic-card/td-p/615631 > > http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Linux-Discussion/Nvidia-driver-for-Y570/td-p/467713 > > https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee/issues/366 > > Hope that helps. Cheers, > > On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Simon Sheehan <[email protected]> > wrote: > Hello everyone, I was looking at purchasing a Lenovo Ideapad Y570. It appears > to have Optimus, with the NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M 1GB. > > My friend has the same card, but on a Dell XPS 17. I wanted to confirm this > would work on this Lenovo Model, before purchasing it and attempting to run > GNU/Linux with the Optimus technology. Has anyone been able to confirm such > findings? > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~hybrid-graphics-linux > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~hybrid-graphics-linux > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~hybrid-graphics-linux > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~hybrid-graphics-linux > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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