[clue] Linux (Ubuntu) and Thinkpad T430

Robert L. Harris robert.l.harris at gmail.com
Mon May 13 11:01:34 MDT 2013


That's the booger and what I need.

Unfortunately I can't boot native to windows, I did a P2V and already wiped
the drive. I'll check the thread with the beta drivers.  Thanks alot!


On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Quentin Hartman <qhartman at gmail.com>wrote:

> Sounds like an Optimus setup. Support for those is spotty and very new. My
> understanding is that in order to get decent performance out of it you need
> to boot into Windows and manually put it in "performance" mode so it uses
> Nvidia setup no matter what, and then boot into Linux and treat it as if
> were just a standard NVidia setup. But, all this is in flux. Here's a
> recent article on Optimus in Ubuntu:
>
> http://www.webupd8.org/2013/04/nvidia-releases-linux-graphics-drivers.html
>
>
> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Robert L. Harris <
> robert.l.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Anyone have a T430 with the dual video (integrated and nvidia) with
>> Ubuntu on it?  Mine video is very laggy and seems to be lower quality.  I'm
>> wondering if it's using the nvidia or not.  Googling isn't being very
>> helpful, hoping someone else has run into this and may point me to the
>> right directions for properly setting this sucker up.
>>
>> Robert
>>
>>
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