laptops

[kostas kefallinos]

I think the main problem with laptops is the wifi adaptor. In my case I have an acer predator helios 300 with Nvidia 1060 which I didn't find it at laptops wiki.The only unsupported component was the wifi adaptor. I bought an Intel one, swap it and now it works like a charm. 

Στις 16 Φεβ 2021, 9:30 μ.μ. ,και ώρα 9:30 μ.μ. ,Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> έγραψε:
>On 17/2/21 3:00 am, Pete Wright wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On 2/16/21 10:42 AM, LuMiWa via freebsd-questions wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I did search FreeBSD Wiki/laptops but I didn't find the answer. I
>like
>>> to buy Thinkpad W541 or W550s (prefer W541) but I am not sure if
>will
>>> work on FreeBSD. I want it to connect external monitor which going
>>> through Nvidia graphics card which Optimus driver supposed it works
>on
>>> FreeBSD 13. I found that installation works on W520 and 530.
>> I have a different Thinkpad with Optimus graphics - a P43s.  It
>mostly 
>> works, but have been pretty underwhelmed by the hybrid graphics of 
>> Optimus systems.  Not just with FreeBSD, but from what I gather its 
>> suboptimal on Linux as well.
>> 
>
>I have been running UbuntuMATE Linux on two computers with nVIDIA 
>Optimus, for several years, now, without any problems.
>
>One of those, the first, upon which I got it working, is an Acer Aspire
>
>V3-772G, which has an Intel Haskell i7 CPU, and nVIDIA Optimus.
>
>I think that I bought the computer in 2013, from memory, and it took me
>
>18 months to get it working with a non-MS operating system. Only two 
>non-MS operating systems, had drivers for the CPU; dragonflyBSD and 
>Ubuntu Linux, and, only Ubuntu Linux had the dirver for the nVIDIA 
>Optimus system. Up until then, I had been using Debian Linux, but, had 
>got fed up with it, had looked at the versions of BSD, and was told
>that 
>there was no way that BSD would be supporting nVIDIA graphics, so, I 
>switched to Ubuntu Linux, and, it has worked well enough with the
>graphics.
>
>I am running external monitors on both laptops, at 1920x1080
>resolution, 
>without any problems.
>
>Oh, and, the other laptop, is an Acer Aspire 5750G.
>
>I am currently running UbuntuMATE 20.10 on both systems, and, up until 
>the last couple of weeks, was running UbuntuMATE 16.04.x LTS on the 
>V3-772G; 16.04 is due to come to EOL in a couple of months, so I
>thought 
>I should get used to using the inferior version, before then.
>
>-- 
>Bret Busby
>Armadale
>West Australia
>(UTC+0800)
>..............
>
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