OT: Upgrading to Newer Laptop

[Xinyun Zhou]

On Sat, 2013-10-05 at 15:35 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> 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. 
> 

Ha, I have a W520 with Arch Linux installed and Optimus works really
well with bumblebee and Nvidia driver, even with dual and three monitors
with dock. You can simply use /xrandr/ and /optirun/ to make that
happen. I think this technique will work on Fedora as well, maybe
simpler.

By the way, I am really looking forward to W540 :) Love Thinkpads! I
have another Thinkpad X230 with Arch and everything is working great
too.

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Xinyun Zhou