I have dealt with latitudes for a while. The NVIDIA systems worked great with hybrid graphics (thanks to bumblebee!) but the one i had with a radeon GPU lost its gourd any time i tried to use the AMD GPU. I think the drivers are just better for nvidia in this regard. Makes em want to dual boot linux on my laptop again.... On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 2:13 PM, Matt Graham wrote: > On 2018-05-23 10:22, Jerry Snitselaar wrote: > >> On Mon May 21 18, Stephen Partington wrote: >> >>> I have found that intel/AMD hybrid laptop combinations are a real pita >>> to work with and get all of your hardware running. [...] Intel has >>> embraced Linux pretty well of late so aside from hybrid soft raid it >>> all works. >>> >> Intel has one of the largest kernel teams of any company right >> now. They do a pretty good job at getting support for their hardware >> into the kernel as quickly as possible >> > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/hybrid_graphics says the hybrid > graphics parts should be doable. At least that's what I thought you meant > when you said "intel/AMD hybrid". There are also a lot of references to > fooling with various settings ("AHCI mode in the BIOS") to get a > spinny-disk + M.2 setup (hybrid soft RAID?) recognized properly. I don't > know for sure though, never tried to install anything on one of these. > > Any idea what Dell systems you were having trouble with? >> > > Yeah, we had many poweredge machines, and only one of them ever had any > real trouble with Linux. I think its hardware was flaky. For every other > machine, just install, configure, and it ran until the {disk, fan, CPU, > NIC} pooped out. > > -- > Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress > There is no Darkness in Eternity > But only Light too dim for us to see. > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen