On 06 January 2012 at 6:17pm, Alan J. Gagne wrote: > What video card are you using with the i5 server. > > Not sure if this is your issue but I just did a lot of research before > buying a new 17" laptop and avoided systems with Nvidia video that had > the Optimus technology. Seems there is a lot of grief with running Linux > with those cards. > > We have some systems at work with Ubuntu but, they have a mux switch to > turn off Optimus in the bios. Couldn't find out if the XPS17 had this > option.
Slightly off topic, but: No need to avoid Optimus. Just make sure it can be disabled from the BIOS. I just purchased a Dell M4600 Precision laptop with i7 processors and an Nvidia card. F15 runs nearly perfectly (including Suspend to Ram), after a few system tweeks. But the first thing I did was disable Optimus (and the 2nd was to add "reboot=pci" to the end of the kernel boot parms in grub.conf to fix a problem with warm rebooting. Dean -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
