Native Nvidia Optimus and Fedora 19

[Darryl L. Pierce]

On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 01:26:47PM +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote:
> On 27.07.2013, valent.turkovic at gmail.com wrote: 
> 
> > I'm considering buying a laptop with Nvidia Optimus, and this looks really
> > bad!
> 
> Do yourself a favour and don't buy a laptop with optimus. I have one,
> and to spare you the details: the nvidia gpu is not useable without a
> lot of trouble. I finally removed both bumblebee and the nvidia drivers, and
> recompiled the kernel without nouveau. My machine now runs the
> integrated Intel GPU exclusively.
> 
> The Intel GPU support is a whole different story. To get a slight
> touch what could happen, search after "Hangcheck timer elapsed". There
> are TONS of reports..
> 
> My advice: try to buy a machine without optimus and with an integrated
> AMD graphics (Yes, I know most of the machines ship with an Intel
> CPU..).

At first I couldn't use nouveau (see my previous post) but now I have no
problems with them on my T530.  I couldn't use the Intel hardware at all
since it can't drive an external monitor and I use two docking stations
(work and home) for work.

-- 
Darryl L. Pierce <mcpierce at gmail.com>
http://mcpierce.fedorapeople.org/
"What do you care what people think, Mr. Feynman?"
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