Linux on Lenovo Z580 -- Anyone?

[jarav]

I am planning to buy a Lenovo Z580. It has an Nvidia GeForce GT630M graphics card. Is there any one here who has installed Linux on it and got the graphics card working( with Bumblebee ) ?

Thanks.

[lupajz]

I made Mint 13 work on my z570 with gt540m should be no problem with yours

[jarav]

Thanks for the reply. Did you use Bumblebee to get your card working ? The problem, I am told, is that even with Bumblebee you do not get native frame rates with the Nvidia card. I am told that the frame rates you get with Bumblebee are only 1/10th of native frame rates. But since there is no other option people go with Bumblebee. The only proper solution is to have a BIOS option to disable Optimus and choose the dedicated card only.

[lupajz]

Exactly nVidia **bleep**s on ppl with optimus technology who are trying to get linux on their machines rather than windows I tried bumblebee but was not pleased with performance like on windows ... so I sticked with Intel graphics only The Intel company has been giving out much more effor and support to get Linux drivers working than nVidia like 3 days ago they released updated drivers to get SNA acceleration enabled and so on Completly dissabling nVidia card gave me some more battery life I think

[chinese_soup]

Hello.

I'm running Debian 7 "Wheezy" on this laptop right now.

I was able to get the nVidia running with bumblebee (w/ official 'nvidia' driver) and I had "pretty good" fps (glxgears gave around 1000), but the system was freezing, which was because of Intel graphic card. I did a lot of stuff since then so I don't really remember what I did to get that much fps on the nvidia card like before (maybe I was using the nouveau driver?) and I was too lazy to figure it out. Anyway, when I want to start application with nvidia I use optirun. I get like 300 fps in glxgears. And as I said before - the Intel graphic card freezed out the whole system, maybe a driver problem or something. Creating Device sections for both cards, adding their BusIDs and using    

    Option "Shadow" "True"
    Option "DRI" "True"

 in the Device section for Intel card solved this problem.

Also - I couldn't get the Bluetooth adapter to work. I can't even see it with lspci and so. Don't know what the problem is and I donẗ really need BT, so.

I haven't tested out the HDMI port, because I don't have any HDMI-able device, but dual display via VGA output works great.

Everything else is, by my humble opinion, working great.

[jarav]

Thank you, chinese_soup.

[lupajz]

I dont remember know but I belive that the HDMI port did not worked for me under Bumblebee only VGA adapter But I think that the Ironhide gives support for HDMI output