Intel i7-8750H nVidia GTX 1050 Ti
Summary of my findings (Please comment if you can get further than me) :
edit: 06/2019 guys in the comments have found workarounds and new solutions !
Most importantly : Lenovo refuses to provide any kind of support for their product on Linux, even though the computer is sold without an OS
- switch the BIOS to UEFI (and don't forget to create the EFI partition, ~256Mb)
- the computer will randomly freezes, during the setup phase, or afterwards. Current theory is that switching from iGPU to dedicated GPU causes the computer to freeze/hang (cursor still moves, but nothing else).
- the keyboard and trackppad are not usable during the setup, though afterwards they both work.
- the graphics performance are good (until the computer feezes of course)
- Switch the bios to UEFI (don't use legacy, don't forget to create the EFI partition, ~256Mb)
- It installs properly in command-line using the expert mode.
- GNOME will start and work as expected
- The graphics drivers used by defaults appears to be "
nouveau
", graphics performances are poor - Installing
nvidia-driver
thru apt will cause GDM to fail starting. - The keyboard works during the setup and afterwards too
- The touchpad doesn't work at all
- The wifi works after typing
sudo modprobe -r ideapad_laptop
or addingblacklist ideapad_laptop
to/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
otherwise - The function keys are enabled by default, so altering the volume requires using the Fn key, for example.
- no issues ! Install Debian 9.5 stable, changes your
/etc/apt/sources.list
to buster thenapt update && apt upgrade && apt dist-upgade
). - [edit] actually two things : no keyboard backlight, you have to use the Fn key to change the volume/brightness
I have some trouble with that machine under Debian Buster with cinnamon as window manager.
I have installed the nvidia driver from the official website successfully, but I'm unable to use the Laptop screen and an external screen side by side. I can only choose to use either external screens via the mini-DisplayPort and HDMI port or use only the laptop screen, depending on the
xorg.conf
, that is used when loading the X server.I'm pretty sure, that this is only a configuration issue, but I did not figured out how to merge these two configuration files.
Here is one with minimal configuration, where the laptop screen is working
and here the on, that allows me to use the external monitor ports, but not the native screen.
I'm pretty confident, that there is a way to merge these configuration and use the external ports, as they are meant to.
Here for further information is the output of nvidia-smi
Also nvidia-settings is returning the error:
ERROR: unable to load info from any available system