[ltp] T580 Debian stretch

[Rubin Abdi]

When I did research about the MX150 on a T480s, it looked like you simply
grab the non-free drivers from Nvidia through their special installer, drop
then in and go. The caveat that I kept on finding was folks needing to
reboot each time they wanted to switch between internal graphic, and the
battery hungry MX150. That was enough for me to decide not to bother with
it and just went with a machine that ran off internal graphic. .

On the other side of things, I run Debian Sid on a ThinkPad T480s without
too many headaches or minor issues. It just works for the most part,
including Thunderbolt 3. The only thing I haven't gotten working (for lack
of need and effort) has been to do something interesting with the IR
camera.

I'm not sure what kernel Stretch is stuck on these days, but I imagine you
might need to build your own to over come issues, if you hit any.

--
Rubin
rubin at starset.net

On Sat, Jun 2, 2018, 04:26 Joerg Bruehe <joerg.bruehe at web.de> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> On 31.05.2018 22:51, Mark Dymek wrote:
> > I want to dual boot windows 10 and Debian. I know Lenovo has good
> > support for Linux but is there any special drivers or anything I need to
> > do to get it working on the T580?
>
> I'd expect basic Linux to work immediately with a Thinkpad.
> For this, "basic" _ex_cludes hibernation and suspend as well as
> accelerated graphics.
> I have no idea whether recent Windows tunings (no proper shutdown, SSD
> caching a rotating disk, ...) will cause trouble.
>
> I'm running a T530 with dual-boot of Windows 7 and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (to
> be upgraded soon) without any issues. I intentionally avoided additional
> graphics controllers.
>
> >
> > I got the 4K screen along with the nvidia MX150. The MX150 is what gives
> > me pause I know nvidia isn’t known for good Linux support.
>
>  From following the literature, my impression is that this is mostly
> distribution-dependent. I don't expect Debian to spend effort on
> integrating a non-free Nvidia driver into their distribution, but AIUI
> Ubuntu does. I have no idea about the others (Fedora, OpenSuSE, ...).
>
> HTH,
> Jörg
>
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