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 <
mhgraham@crow202.org> 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.
>
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