Plasma - any hope for my laptop?

[Rex Dieter]

Timothy Murphy wrote:

> I have a ThinkPad T61, with Nvidia G86M [Quadro NVS 140M] GPU.
> I like to run Fedora KDE, but my experience with successive Fedora's
> has not been happy.
> The laptop just about worked with Fedora-21.
> It is more or less unusable with Fedora-22,
> and completely useless with Fedora-23 beta.

It is unfortunate that device driver quality varies so much... I've even 
experienced that a couple of times for me usually-stable intel-based laptops 
too for past releases.

I can attest personally with  a nv/intel hybrid laptop I currently 
inherited, the nouveau experience was pretty bad.  Thankfully for me, I 
could disable the nv bits, and use intel exclusively.

In your particular case, it could be possible to get driver devs/maintainers 
to look at it closer, if they provided with good/detailed bug reports.

Looking over,
https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/xorg-x11-drv-nouveau/bugs

I don't see any f23/kde specific ones filed yet.  I'd encourage anyone 
interested in this working better to do so.

Found at least on f22-related bug,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1239284
that implies the situation there for f23 was a little better.

-- Rex