eivan Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 Good evening,Is anyone using GNU/Linux with a M17x R4 ?Which one ?Best regards.eivan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slayer305 Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 I'm using Ubuntu 12.10/Win7 dual boot on mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thop1544 Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 But how? I've had audio jack detection issues across multiple kernels / distros since the time of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (which is just the first one I tried with this M17x R4).I'm currently dual-booting W8 with Arch running kernel 3.9.1 (from the testing repos) and KDE, to answer the OP, but the issues persist under Linux for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kakaroth1977 Posted May 18, 2013 Share Posted May 18, 2013 Hi all ,I tried several distro of ubuntu without any success, perhaps tink because the 120hz screen.Then I tried the Debian 7 x64 , it boot and wifi works good , but the audio is missing, the keyboard is USA in place of the Italian type. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thop1544 Posted May 20, 2013 Share Posted May 20, 2013 Well running the latest Arch with the testing repos enabled, audio works properly (under ALSA) by simply plugging into the secondary headphones jack. I've yet to test this with pulseaudio.What's more troubling is how the 7970m has no s3tc/dxtn support in the radeonsi FOSS driver, and indeed no hardware acceleration at all unless using Glamor. I guess that's supposed to be merged with kernel 3.10 but be dependent on the next Mesa, which isn't going to be ready for about 5 months. I've opened some threads across the Arch and openSUSE forums detailing these issues, and I can point anyone there who is interested. There are some upstream bug reports open as well, by others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kakaroth1977 Posted May 20, 2013 Share Posted May 20, 2013 Hi i just try Fedora 18 x64 and boot , wifi ok , audio ok , res Full HD ok . I must try if the GTX675m is full working with hardware acceleration . How can i do it? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thop1544 Posted May 22, 2013 Share Posted May 22, 2013 You'll have to grab the proprietary drivers, which is probably most easily done from their site. As things currently stand, "Nvidia's" FOSS drivers will never get close to what the AMD and Intel stacks offer, especially with acceleration: re-clocking is broken under nouveau. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seniortaco Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 Using Ubuntu 13.04, 8.04 (for older software) , BT5 (white hat purposes), and ofc win 7 and 8. everything works perfectly, sound, video, you name it. Only thing I want and I am currently working on is getting the alienFX to work properly on my linux distros. Other wise everything is perfect Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nottin Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 I'm using Arch Linux. Got the nVidia GTX 680M. Extremely problematic to get the proprietary driver with optimus working without using a hackish bumblee solution.Got the nvidia graphics sort of working with a "proper" optimus solution by starting the X server, then set the provider output through Intel with xrandr, then setting it back to auto.The official nvidia website suggests using the modesetting driver instead of Intel, but couldn't get that to work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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