Fedora 21 on a GIGABYTE P34Gv2-CF4 (NVIDIA GeForc GTX 860M)

[Doug]

On 01/07/2015 06:37 PM, CS DBA wrote:
> All;
>
> I'm thinking about getting a GIGABYTE P34Gv2-CF4 with these specs:
>
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> - 14.0” FHD 16:9 LED IPS Backlit Wide screen (1920x1080) Anti-Glare Matte Type Screen
> - 4th Generation Intel® Haswell Core™ i7-4710HQ (2.5GHz - 3.5GHz, 6MB Intel® Smart Cache)
> - NVIDIA® GeForce™ GTX 860M (4.0GB) GDDR5 PCI-Express DX11 w/ Optimus™ Technology
> - 16GB DDR3 1866MHz [SKU-444BX] (Crucial Ballistix Sport Dual Channel Memory (2x8GB SODIMMS))
> -512GB Crucial M550 Solid State mSATA III (Read 550MB/s - Write 500MB/s)
> - 1TB Crucial M550 SSD (Read 550MB/s - Write 500MB/s (SATA III))
> - Smart Li-ion Battery (4-Cell)
>
> Most of the hardware seems compatible enough, I only have 2 concerns:
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> 1) the 512GB Crucial M550 Solid State mSATA III, can I install the OS & boot off this drive?
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> 2) the NVIDIA® GeForce™ GTX 860M (4.0GB) GDDR5, I've seen some posts of folks having issues with this card,
>       will it work with the open source nouveau drivers (even if I get less functionality)? Or with the kmod-nvidia packages?
>
> Thoughts?
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>
> Thanks in advance...
>
>
YOu asked for thoughts, so:
Why buy a top of the line video card if you're going to hobble it with nouveau?
If you find out that the nVidia driver doesn't work with your hardware, you might
as well buy a cheaper card.

--doug