On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 03:47:03PM +0200, valent.turkovic@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > I'm considering buying a laptop with Nvidia Optimus, and this looks really > bad! Have you managed to fix this issue? Did you get Fedora 19 to install? > Do Ubuntu and Linux Mint work better with Nvidia Optimus graphics? I can't remember the content of the mail you are replying to, and I am too lazy to look it up, but I suspect the problems were related to Nvidia and it's blob. I have an Optimus laptop and have been running it with either vgaswitcheroo alone, bbswitch alone or bbswitch + bumblebee. But then I only used these tools to switch off the discrete graphics for power saving reasons. I have no need of the capabilities of the Nvidia (don't play stupid games for example). At the moment I am using bbswitch+bumblebee because there are good rpm's available for Fedora and this saves some small effort compiling and installing yourself, see: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bumblebee And using bumblebee saves me some small extra work with respect to systemd when using bbswitch alone. If you are content to use the nouveau driver (and if it supports your Nvidia card suficiently) I can advice these rpm's. I don't know how good the actual 'switching' integrated-discrete works because I don't use it (but a lot of other people do). But the rpm's are good and the setup works perfectly (for me). Fedora should install without problems on any laptop with supported hardware (Optimus is no hinder). The situation is no different on Ubuntu or Mint (everything works the same as under Fedora) except that they might offer to setup bumblebee for you at install (I can't remember). And again the nouveau option might not give you what you want and the nvidia option might give you the same 'blob' problems as under Fedora. If you want no hassle at all don't buy Optimus. AV -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
