M17x R4 : GNU/Linux

[eivan 10]

Good evening,

Is anyone using GNU/Linux with a M17x R4 ?

Which one ?

Best regards.

eivan.

[slayer305 11]

I'm using Ubuntu 12.10/Win7 dual boot on mine.

[thop1544 12]

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.

[kakaroth1977 10]

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.

[thop1544 12]

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.

[kakaroth1977 10]

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

[thop1544 12]

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.

[seniortaco 10]

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

[nottin 10]

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.