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[Gary Gatling <gsgatlin@xxxxxxxx>]

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.simon19@xxxxxxxxx>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 <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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