OT: Upgrading to Newer Laptop

Sat Oct 5 19:35:35 UTC 2013

On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 04:19:50PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> I've got a W530 and it works very well with Fedora, although I haven't
> gotten the "optimus" video card switching technology working. The Intel
> video works great, and the Noveau driver works with the Nvidia card giving
> better performance but _does_ seem to run hot. One catch is that the
> external video ports (including on the docking station if you have it)
> *only* work with the Nvidia card.

Oh! I forgot to note that I needed to boot with nox2apic to get the Nvidia
card to work. 

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F19_bugs#Boot_hangs_when_using_NVIDIA_discrete_graphics_on_some_Thinkpad_models_.28W520.2C_T420.29

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