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[Simon Sheehan <sheehan.simon19@xxxxxxxxx>]

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 <gsgatlin@xxxxxxxx> 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 <erappleman@xxxxxxxxx>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 <lekensteyn@xxxxxxxxx
>>>> <mailto:lekensteyn@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  Gary,
>>>>>
>>>>> I've digged in your tables, have a look at
>>>>> https://github.com/Bumblebee-**Project/Bumblebee/issues/149#**
>>>>> issuecomment-3273992<https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/issues/149#issuecomment-3273992>
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Lekensteyn
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Gary Gatling <gsgatlin@xxxxxxxx
>>>>> <mailto:gsgatlin@xxxxxxxx>> 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/53>
>>>>>
>>>>>    https://github.com/Bumblebee-**Project/Bumblebee/issues/149<https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/issues/149>
>>>>>
>>>>>    https://github.com/MrMEEE/**ironhide/issues/100<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/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/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<http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Linux-Discussion/Nvidia-driver-for-Y570/td-p/467713>
>>>>>
>>>>>    https://github.com/MrMEEE/**bumblebee/issues/366<https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee/issues/366>
>>>>>
>>>>>    Hope that helps. Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>>    On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Simon Sheehan
>>>>>    <sheehan.simon19@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:sheehan.simon19@gmail.**com<sheehan.simon19@xxxxxxxxx>>>
>>>>> 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. Has anyone been able to confirm such
>>>>>        findings?
>>>>>
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