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.