Thanks to everyone whose helped out here. When I get the laptop, I'll report my findings back to this mailing list. Could be a few weeks since the current date set by Lenovo is 4 weeks. I don't think it'll be that much.
Thanks! Simon On 2011-12-26, at 2:01 PM, Gary Gatling <gsgat...@ncsu.edu> wrote: > Thats cool. If... you get the laptop and the nvidia blob driver doesn't work > maybe you can try the nouveau driver with a newer Linux kernel? (Like 3.1.XX) > It seems like that might help pinpoint the issue better... It looks like a > nice laptop. > > I am going to try to get bumblebee to work on my Y470 with fedora 16 and > nouveau and see if that works. If not I'll try some other distros... I'm more > of a red hat dude so I want to start there. > > To all the developers thanks for your hard work. :) > > Cheers, > > On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Simon Sheehan <sheehan.simo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > At the present moment, looking at my funding and such, I am going to purchase > that model today. Perhaps even if it doesn't work, I can help out on making > it work somehow, or at least confirming that Bumblebee is supported on that > model. > > > On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Gary Gatling <gsgat...@ncsu.edu> wrote: > I can't speak for the Y570 since I don't own one but this morning I tried > upgrading the driver in Windows 7 on a Y470 in the "NVidia Control Center" > out of curiosity and the driver refused to install because it said I had > insuffiencient hardware or something like that. The driver that came on the > computer did seem to work when I tried running minecraft in chrome. It was > version 2.85.63 I think that nvidia's installer failed on. When I tried > directly downloading it it did the same thing. > > ON Nvidia's web site they mention that drivers for "notebooks" (whatever that > means) must be gotten from the manufacturer as the reference driver at > www.nvidia.com might not work with such specialized hardware or some crap > like that. Perhaps that is why this has come up as a problem? > > Has anyone gotten their Y570's to work with bumblebee? Looks like they closed > the issue (53) before it could be verified if there was a fix. If you have > gotten it to work that would be awesome and the dude who started this thread > (Simon) should buy a lenovo. Otherwise maybe he would be wasting his money? > At least for right now as things stand. > > > On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Eric Appleman <erapple...@gmail.com> wrote: > AFAIK, the Y570's GPU is now "supported" by recent official Nvidia drivers > for both Windows and Linux. That wasn't the case when it when it first came > out. > > > On 12/26/2011 09:18 AM, Bruno Pagani wrote: > Any machine that is supported by nVidia driver is supported normally. > > The problem is to know which ones they are, and effectively, we've seen > some problems with Lenovo ones. > > Le 26/12/2011 15:12, Simon Sheehan a écrit : > > I was particularly hoping to pick up on a decent boxing day sale > today. Are there any particular laptops you might recommend that > support Bumblebee and Optimus? I had particularly liked this machine > for its features and price. > > Is there any sort of list available of machines that fully support it? > > Thanks, > > Simon > > > > On 2011-12-26, at 6:17 AM, Lekensteyn <lekenst...@gmail.com > <mailto:lekenst...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Gary, > > I've digged in your tables, have a look at > https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/issues/149#issuecomment-3273992 > > Regards, > Lekensteyn > > On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Gary Gatling <gsgat...@ncsu.edu > <mailto:gsgat...@ncsu.edu>> wrote: > > My suggestion is do not buy a lenovo ideapad yet. > > https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/issues/53 > > https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/issues/149 > > https://github.com/MrMEEE/ironhide/issues/100 > > Does not work at all with nvidia chip. I have a ideapad y470 but > reportedly it does not work even with nouveau drivers with > Bumblebee. Since nouveau doesn't even work on a Y470, Lenovo must > be doing some really weird stuff internally. Avoid like the plague. > > I have not seen anyone have success yet with an ideapad and post > about it on the web somewhere. I would be SOOO happy to be proven > wrong about this however. :) > > > http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Linux-Discussion/Optimus-in-Linux-Ideapad-Y570/td-p/490107 > > > http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Linux-Discussion/Y570-There-are-no-drivers-for-GF-555-M-graphic-card/td-p/615631 > > > http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Linux-Discussion/Nvidia-driver-for-Y570/td-p/467713 > > https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee/issues/366 > > Hope that helps. Cheers, > > On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Simon Sheehan > <sheehan.simo...@gmail.com <mailto:sheehan.simo...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hello everyone, I was looking at purchasing a Lenovo Ideapad > Y570. It appears to have Optimus, with the NVIDIA GeForce GT > 555M 1GB. > > My friend has the same card, but on a Dell XPS 17. I wanted > to confirm this would work on this Lenovo Model, before > purchasing it and attempting to run GNU/Linux with the > Optimus technology. 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