Re: OT: Upgrading to Newer Laptop

[Matthew Miller]

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_...