[OpenIndiana-discuss] Making OI work on Lenovo thinkpad T520 (few issues)

[Sunay Tripathi]

Hi Milan,

On 05/ 3/12 11:39 PM, Milan Jurik wrote:
> Hi Sunay,
>
> On 04.05.2012 04:03, Sunay Tripathi wrote:
>> Guys,
>>
>> I just replaced my old thinkpad with a new one using the
>> latest OI bits and ran into few issues. The bundled Nvidia
>> driver wouldn't bring up the display with liveCD. Seems
>> like Nvidia has just released a driver for Quadro4000
>> driver (the actual card on laptop is Quadro 4200M Optimus)
>> so I installed the machine by doing a
>> % ssh -X laptop
>> % /usr/bin/gui-install
>>
>> Once the machine was installed, I did put in the new driver
>> but X still doesn't come up. I know many people are running
>> with T520 (is there some BIOS setting that need to be changed).
>> Any suggestion would be much appreciated.
>>
>
> I have no T520, but - what's in Xorg.log?

So I spent a little bit more time and turns out that BIOS
ships with display set to Optimus mode (some special support
for windows7). Changing that to integrated graphics allows
the X to come up in a beautiful 1920x1080 mode :) The weird
part is that resolution is correct but Nvidia X setting option
from System -> Preferences still doesn't believe that its
a Nvidia driver. Will try some more.

>> The e1000g0 works fine but my Centrino N-6300 keeps failing
>> as well related to https://www.illumos.org/issues/2207. Does
>> anyone has a workaround on that?
>>
>
> port needed support from BSD driver needed :-(

Funny. Then why do we have the chip listed as supported on
http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/WiFi. I actually ordered the
laptop based on that. Have CC'd Albert to see if he has any
ideas.

Thanks,
Sunay