Lenovo W700

[Matt Graham]

From: Kirk Bauer <kirk at kaybee.org>
> I'm thinking about picking up the Lenovo W700: anybody have any
> experience with Linux on this laptop?  I was thinking about Ubuntu

http://www.tesuji.org/thinkpad_w700.html was the only hit on
tuxmobil.org for that laptop.  Looks like most stuff works.

> Specifically, the video card is NVIDIA Quadro FX 2700M and I'd be
> curious if I can set up multi-head properly with this video card. 

You'll have to use the evil binary-only nVidia modules.  I don't know
how easy that'll be with Ubuntu.  It was pretty easy to get TwinView
working on my desktop with Gentoo and the evil binary-only modules,
but dual-head is a bit different.  I got that working on Steve's
computer last year, but it required some manual tweaking of xorg.conf
for everything to work right.  The README that nVidia supplies with
the evil binary-only module is pretty comprehensive and can solve a
lot of config problems fairly easily.

> On my Dell Latitude D630 (Quadro NVS 135M) I'm running Ubuntu 8.10
> and I can't get the VGA output to work correctly.

First thing I'd try is to install a vanilla kernel, use that instead
of the Ubuntu kernel, and use a more recent version of the evil
modules.

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