That has Skylake-K and Nvidia "with the latest NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX™ 10 series graphics".[1] Thanks Felix for your response... The NVidia graphics is one of the
On 12/16/2016 7:35 PM, Felix Miata wrote: main reasons I bought this laptop. Not so much for gaming, but for doing some rather sophisticated real-time 3D image modeling of laser amplifiers, for which we use NVidia APIs and libraries. To be honest, most of this work is done under Windows, and I wanted something much faster than what I had been using in the past...
Did you Google before you bought it to see how new that hardware is?
On October 18, 2016 http://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/laptops/asus-g752v wrote the GTX 1070 is "brand-new". This smells bad for 42.2, only just released last month with kernel 4.4, while Tumbleweed is up to 4.8.13. Maybe you can get TW to install? I can give Tumbleweed a shot, but pushing back a bit, why are you assuming that nVidia is the cause of the problem I am experiencing? As I mentioned it appears to be more related to the DVD drive, something seems to be preventing the install software from determining that the repository of software, to be used during the installation process, is on the DVD disk... I don't think I have gotten far enough along in the installation process to make a determination that it is failing due to
Of course. But I didn't find anything that said the nVidia GTX 1070 or Skylake-K was specifically unsupported or a show stopper. And trying to determine ahead of purchasing time, whether one will have problems installing Linux on a new system, is nearly impossible, IMHO... I have seen the flame war going on between nVidia and Linux but I also have been using nVidia cards in the past, on previous versions of openSuSE, without too much difficulty, so I don't always know what to believe. the newer version of nVidia graphics. When I run openSuSE, which I use mostly for my personal software development work, and not for work related stuff, I don't care if the nVidia graphics is performing at it's best, just so long as it does a decent job of displaying mostly text, photos, and internet web sites...
Is it too late to take it back? See: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2911459/why-nvidia-graphics-cards-are-the-wor...
Returning the laptop is not an option I really want to pursue. I might but only if it is totally impossible to get a Linux distro to install on it. I kinda like openSuSE for a lot of reasons, familiarity with it being a big one, so it is my first choice.... Marc... -- "The Truth is out there" - Spooky -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org