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[1] https://news.lenovo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/ThinkPad-...
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Dirty hack, like bumblebee? Well since driver 440.44 this kind of thing is incooperated into the nvidia driver itself. You can use it on demand. It idles at around 1w and is used for some physics and other decoding capabilities if i recall correctly. If you want to run a game or an app using nvidia you prepend it with an environment variable, otherwise intel gfx is used. It's not dirty, and works quite well imho... T…
> to have the nvidia card kick in triggered by the OS somehow when really needed would be the non-plus ultra, but come on, this is science fiction Can't smth simple & obvious like the macbook pro GPUs work fine, eg. Intel graphics for everything when on battery, dedicated graphics for everything when the power cable is plugged in? This covers like, everyones uses cases, right?! I mean, you almost never plug into an e…
Gnome also used to forget monitor layouts and resolutions habitually, so plugging in a monitor didn't guarantee you'd get the same thing you got the last time, and when you plugged it out, your laptop screen could go funny.
I really don't have time or inclination to mess with this to make it work properly.
I had a small laugh when I saw that guy in the example image doing the most minimal of work on what is otherwise quite a capable machine [1]. But still, it's cool to see Linux being taken more seriously by vendors. [1] https://news.lenovo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/ThinkPad-...
> Our entire portfolio of ThinkStation and ThinkPad P Series workstations will now be certified via both Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu LTS
Are they certifying all models or just ThinkStation and ThinkPad P Series?
From a quick pass I don't see any mention about the docking stations. I would rather have them start working on the docking station capabilities. Right now my dock doesn't understand how to provide display port capabilities to linux. It is a very expensive USB-hub at this moment when I boot linux.
If it still doesn't work you can fall back on displaylink drivers in a pinch.
> Now, I’m excited to share Lenovo is moving to certify the full workstation portfolio for top Linux distributions from Ubuntu® and Red Hat® – every model, every configuration. > Our entire portfolio of ThinkStation and ThinkPad P Series workstations will now be certified via both Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu LTS Are they certifying all models or just ThinkStation and ThinkPad P Series?
I must point out that this does NOT cover ThinkPad T and X series. From the press release: > Our entire portfolio of ThinkStation and ThinkPad P Series workstations will now be certified via both Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu LTS – a long-term, enterprise-stability variant of the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution.
The amount of fine tuning I had to do for my X1 7th generation with Ubuntu 19.10 was almost unbearable. Sound still is not working properly, the internal mic is still not working at all.
