I understand that there is an fix which would allow me to use the nvidia card in linux. I followed the lenovo hack AUR package and your bugzilla thread.
But my question is whether I could set the BIOS to use just the nvidia card exclusively after the next reboot with the fix. I don't want to use the intel card.
Is it even possible?
@Gruntz It cannot. You can either switch to the NVIDIA card (after using the acpi-handle-hack) or not use it at all.
Hi I know its bit of an old thread, but is there an option in the BIOS of Y580, that lets us to switch to nvidia completely?
PS:
I recently bought this laptop and its not yet delivered. If I had known this ACPI handle issue,wouldn't have bought it.
Thank you.
]]>I just got my y580 and I am trying to run the X server. I got the acpi handle hack and I installed the nvidia driver and utils from your "custom" aur packages, but I have an error. I got "no screens found" error. I used the nvidia tool to re-configure my xorg.conf. Did you have such problem?
Thank you.
]]>I red the wiki page and it is awesome, thank you.
So everything is working on Y580, correct?
]]>Q: Can I use my Nvidia card only? I don't care about power consumption.
A: In short, no. A few laptops came with a BIOS option to do so, if that's the case of yours, then you can use it and not install Bumblebee.
Can the Y580 do that? ( you may know as you have ti :S )
]]>@Gruntz The patch is only necessary for certain models (you may want to look here: https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/bb … ack-lenovo ). Also, take a look at the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bumblebee
But the most important thing to keep in mind is: Bumblebee is sort of a pain and it doesnt work with many machines (this is not the project's fault, its just that NVIDIA isn't very helpful, it is very hard to get it to work when you do not know exactly how Optimus works because the company doesnt help much). Before buying a laptop, make sure to find out if someone got it to work with that machine.
You do not need bumblebee for many things, like CUDA and OpenCL applications for example. But if you need the card to play recent games you will probably need it.
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