Re: HP Pavilion Notebook 15-ab008ng

From	Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject	Re: HP Pavilion Notebook 15-ab008ng
Date	2016-02-25 07:00 -0800
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On 02/25/2016 01:10 AM, Tim Ritberg wrote:
> Am 25.02.2016 um 04:03 schrieb Bobbie Sellers:
>
>>
>> About which machine?
> ab008ng
>
>> HP Pavilion 15n225nr IS the machine I work on every day.
>>
>> HP Pavilion Notebook 15-ab008ng is what you had written
>> as the subject of your initial post.
>>
>> I went online and looked it up.
>>
>>> i5-5200U
>>> NVIDIA GeForce 940 4GB DDR3
>>> 1000 GB SSHD
>>
>>      Were not the specs I found when I looked at
>> the several references DuckDuckGo pulled up.
> strange...
>>
>
>>      Now HP is a manufacturer which has lots of similar
>> machines with all the variations from AMD A-6 through
>> Intel i7s with the same general model names but quite a
>> wide range of internals.
>>
>>      Now the only problem is that if your real specs
>> above is that NVidia GeForce 940? It may not yet have
>> a driver but that is unlikely.  NVidia has it own drivers
>> available for Linux users to download the last I looked
>> which is now about 2 years ago.  If the Linux you try out
>> runs without getting this driver then it was either included
>> or a Open Source alternative is available.  I found this
>> reference which is just over a year old,
>> <http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia-geforce-gtx960&num=2>
> Nvidia is running with Linux but this Notebook will possible have Nvidia
> Optimus. The question is, can I select GPU in Bios? Nvidia or Intel?

	Well no but the hardware detection and install should take care of this 
and with Mageia and I would suppose most other distributions the GPU in 
use can be decided by the NVidia graphic configuration tool
menu but it is somewhat unusual to have two GPUs in a notebook.
	Now in a desktop motherboards often come with an Intel chip
which may later be supplemented by a GPU on a card.
>
>>
>>
>>      What I suggest is trying out the latest version
>> of Knoppix which will run live and which can easily be
>> written to Flash Drive.  If it does not have the drivers
>> for your NVidia then you might have wait until newer versions
>> are out.
>>      To boot Linux disk you will have to change the
>> firmware settings in the UEFI package to legacy and
>> shut off Secure Boot only.
> I do not own this netobook yet.
>
>>
>>
>>      bliss
>
> Tim
>
	Good luck Tim.
	
	bliss

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HP Pavilion Notebook 15-ab008ng Tim Ritberg <tim@server.invalid> - 2016-02-24 15:33 +0100
  Re: HP Pavilion Notebook 15-ab008ng Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2016-02-24 07:33 -0800
    Re: HP Pavilion Notebook 15-ab008ng Tim Ritberg <tim@server.invalid> - 2016-02-24 18:24 +0100
      Re: HP Pavilion Notebook 15-ab008ng Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2016-02-24 11:23 -0800
        Re: HP Pavilion Notebook 15-ab008ng Tim Ritberg <tim@server.invalid> - 2016-02-24 21:03 +0100
          Re: HP Pavilion Notebook 15-ab008ng Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2016-02-24 19:03 -0800
            Re: HP Pavilion Notebook 15-ab008ng Tim Ritberg <tim@server.invalid> - 2016-02-25 10:10 +0100
              Re: HP Pavilion Notebook 15-ab008ng Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2016-02-25 07:00 -0800

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