Re: [tlug] Linux with CUDA experiences? --> "Buyer beware"

[Raymond Wan <rwan.kyoto@example.com>]

Hi Josh and TLUG,

Sorry for resurrecting an old thread, but I finally got a 
chance this weekend to replace Debian with Ubuntu in order 
to try to get NVidia working on my computer...

Things are much better, but NVidia still does not work...

After some googling, it turns out that some computers, such 
as my Dell, has both an Intel graphics card and an NVidia 
one and the OS is suppose to auto-magically switch between 
the two.  At this moment, Linux does not support this well.

So, if you're thinking of buying a computer with NVidia, you 
might want to do what I did not do :-( which is to see the 
progress so far before buying.

See the last message on this page, and the messages posted 
since on the next page:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1860360&page=2

Hope this helps someone on this list who is thinking of 
getting a new machine...

Ray


On Thursday, September 22, 2011 12:40 PM, Josh Glover wrote:
> 2011/9/17 Raymond Wan<rwan.kyoto@example.com>:
>
> > Any general suggestions -- for example, "Don't use Debian; it's too
> > difficult", would be helpful.
>
> If you want Debian, use Ubuntu, which is basically just Debian with
> up-to-date software that more or less works out of the box. My last
> laptop (a ThinkPad T500, IIRC) had an nVidia card, and I just let
> Ubuntu install the proprietary drivers when prompted.