On 30/10/13 17:13, Jan Ritzerfeld wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 30. Oktober 2013, 11:11:20 schrieb Basil Chupin:
(Tip-toeing thru a minefield when trying to decide which laptop to buy is not much fun :-( .) http://www.thinkwiki.org/ helped me a lot. See the installation instructions for openSUSE.
A MOST useful URL! Thanks for pointing it out. The advice there seems to be a bit dated - or hasn't yet caught up with events - as there are no instructions on how to install openSUSE on the T530 which is the one I am now most interested in. But I guess what was done in the T510 and T520 should also be applicable.
What hidden reefs am I going to strike if I buy a laptop, to install openSUSE (13.1- and beyond), which has for its graphics something called 'NVIDIA NVS 5400M Graphics with Optimus Technology'? [...] The most important question is: Can you disable Optimus in the BIOS in order to enable the Internal graphics card? Then, there should be no problem with 13.1.
HTH Jan
Now here is the rub, isn't it? :-) . I will ring Lenovo shortly and talk to their tech department about this. I suspect that one could switch off Optimus in the BIOS but I had better make sure. (On the othe hand, if there is work being done according to Cristian re Optimus then I can get the unit and use it with Win #8 while the Optimus question has been resolved.) BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.11.2 & kernel 3.11.6-3 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 OC 2GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org