Lenovo P52S compatibility

[Julien Cigar]

On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 10:05:10AM -0400, Waitman Gobble wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 8:33 AM, Julien Cigar <julien at perdition.city> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > All is in the title: any idea if the Lenovo P52S is compatible with
> > FreeBSD ?
> >
> > Thanks !
> > Julien
> >
> >
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> > Julien Cigar
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> 
> 
> P500 should work fine with latest NVidia driver. I have a T530 with
> Nvidia, for FreeBSD it needs to be set to NVidia only (or Intel HD

Thank you.. unfortunately I have only choice between a T51 and T52s
(it's a replacement at work)

> only). (in BIOS) There's a third option that switches GPU based on
> power and that does not work with FreeBSD. The P52S may have the same
> feature?
> 

T52S has Nvidia P500 which should work, I hope I'll be able to do the
switch

> Intel 8265 / Wifi might be an issue, you may need to run Current/Head.
> It's not clear to me if the driver update is in 11.2.
> 
> If you are using the LTE/GSM card, I am not sure if that works? Maybe
> somebody else does.

Wifi and LTE/GSM cards are not so much an issue as we are wired 

> 
> I don't think you will have issues with anything else.
> 

Thanks for your answer

> 
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