Re: installed Fedora 18 on my laptop

[Casey Boone <caseyboone@gmail.com>]

One option you have is to use some stuff from the Bumblee Project:
https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/wiki
http://bumblebee-project.org/

I don't have a laptop with Optimus, nor have I used one knowingly, so
I can't offer much help beyond this

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Kevin Thomas <axel2078@gmail.com> wrote:
> I installed Fedora 18 on my Dell XPS laptop yesterday.  The installer was a
> bit confusing and I absolutely hate the partitioning options.  Once it was
> installed though, it ran fine.  I do have some minor complaints though.  The
> brightness controls on my laptop didn't work until I removed the "nomodeset"
> option from grub2. No biggie. The other thing that's really annoying is that
> my laptop fan is loud and spinning at full speed the entire time I'm booted
> into Fedora.  This doesn't happen when I boot into Windows 7 (dual-boot
> setup).  My battery also drains about twice as fast when booted into Fedora
> than into Windows 7.  I think this has something to do with my video.  I
> have a dedicated Nvidia chipset, but my processor also has the embedded
> intel video graphics.  I think I read somewhere a while ago that the Opteron
> function of the Nvidia chipset could not easily be turned off in Linux.
> Windows only turns on the advanced graphics when needed, but Linux tries to
> use it all then time.  Even so, I *think* it is using the intel video for
> graphics.  I have tried installing the Nvidia driver several times with
> several Linux distros and it has always ended up with a broken boot process.
> This laptop is less than 2 years old, by the way. I had to uninstall all the
> nvidia crap just to get the system to completely boot again. Aside from
> those minor quirks, it's running pretty well.
>
> Kevin

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