At the present moment, looking at my funding and such, I am going to purchase that model today. Perhaps even if it doesn't work, I can help out on making it work somehow, or at least confirming that Bumblebee is supported on that model.
On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Gary Gatling <[email protected]> wrote: > I can't speak for the Y570 since I don't own one but this morning I tried > upgrading the driver in Windows 7 on a Y470 in the "NVidia Control Center" > out of curiosity and the driver refused to install because it said I had > insuffiencient hardware or something like that. The driver that came on the > computer did seem to work when I tried running minecraft in chrome. It was > version 2.85.63 I think that nvidia's installer failed on. When I tried > directly downloading it it did the same thing. > > ON Nvidia's web site they mention that drivers for "notebooks" (whatever > that means) must be gotten from the manufacturer as the reference driver at > www.nvidia.com might not work with such specialized hardware or some crap > like that. Perhaps that is why this has come up as a problem? > > Has anyone gotten their Y570's to work with bumblebee? Looks like they > closed the issue (53) before it could be verified if there was a fix. If > you have gotten it to work that would be awesome and the dude who started > this thread (Simon) should buy a lenovo. Otherwise maybe he would be > wasting his money? At least for right now as things stand. > > > On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Eric Appleman <[email protected]>wrote: > >> AFAIK, the Y570's GPU is now "supported" by recent official Nvidia >> drivers for both Windows and Linux. That wasn't the case when it when it >> first came out. >> >> >> On 12/26/2011 09:18 AM, Bruno Pagani wrote: >> >>> Any machine that is supported by nVidia driver is supported normally. >>> >>> The problem is to know which ones they are, and effectively, we've seen >>> some problems with Lenovo ones. >>> >>> Le 26/12/2011 15:12, Simon Sheehan a écrit : >>> >>>> >>>> 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] >>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Gary, >>>>> >>>>> I've digged in your tables, have a look at >>>>> https://github.com/Bumblebee-**Project/Bumblebee/issues/149#** >>>>> issuecomment-3273992<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] >>>>> <mailto:[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/53> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> https://github.com/Bumblebee-**Project/Bumblebee/issues/149<https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/issues/149> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> https://github.com/MrMEEE/**ironhide/issues/100<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/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/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<http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Linux-Discussion/Nvidia-driver-for-Y570/td-p/467713> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> https://github.com/MrMEEE/**bumblebee/issues/366<https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee/issues/366> >>>>> >>>>> Hope that helps. Cheers, >>>>> >>>>> On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Simon Sheehan >>>>> <[email protected] >>>>> <mailto:sheehan.simon19@gmail.**com<[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. 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