nvidia/nouveau problems

[Jason D. Clinton]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:21, Per Bothner <per at bothner.com> wrote:

> On 04/20/2011 10:00 AM, Jason D. Clinton wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 11:14, Per Bothner <per at bothner.com
> > <mailto:per at bothner.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     I did try hard to get a laptop with just integrated graphics, but
> >     they're
> >     very hard to find, especially once you get to mid/upper-end with i7
> >     quad-core
> >     Sandy Bridge.  Most of them have nvidia/optimus.  A few have ATI,
> which
> >     would
> >     of course be my strong preference, but there are very few choices,
> >     especially
> >     if you want to avoid a glossy screen.
> >
> > All of the ThinkPad line can meet these requirements and work out-of-the
> > box with no proprietary bits.
>
> Yes, if you limit yourself to i7-2620M.
>

Chips higher than the 2620M do not have Intel graphics (Ironlake) and so
they must have discreet video from either NVidia or ATI.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/attachments/20110420/1793fd37/attachment.html