Hi all,
After much struggling with Fedora 23 and CentOS 7 on a new Thinkpad P70, I failed to get things working well. With all stock install/updates, using "hybrid" graphics (intel + nvidia m600m), I would get a black bar along the bottom of the screen that wouldn't display, but was there (I could type, but not see what I typed, in full screen terminals for example).
If I switched to pure nvidia (discrete mode), I would get 1024x768 on the nouveau drivers. I tried the RPMfusion nvidia drivers and it would work for a short time only. First time that I suspended the laptop, I'd lose the screen for good, even after a power cycle (text mode during boot would show, but nothing when gnome started), but I could SSH into it so the system was OK. So on and so forth with Fedora, CentOS, EPEL kernel-ml, etc.
I decided to try ubuntu, just to see if it was linux itself, but it appears to work out of the box. So I am pretty sure that Linux in general is OK (at least workable). It's a 4k screen on the laptop, for what it matters.
My question then is this;
How/what can I do, as a user, to help improve support for this machine under Fedora (and RHEL/CentOS)? I'm a sysadmin who works with EL, so I'd really like to make this machine work in fedora where I am most comfortable. :)
Thanks!