12-28-2014, 11:10 PM
Thank you for the reply.
Yes i kept Win8 on the machine and dual boot, triple soon. I just resized my windows partition (shrink), gave myself 80GB blank partition.
Then rebooted into live LM17, and installed to the unused space, manual partition (/=25GB /swap 4GB /home remaining).
The key was to point the eufi to boot From the Win eufi partition (fat32), it updates it when it reboots and i just select like a GRUB menu style loader.
No issues at all installing, booting or updating. Secure boot diasbled, CSM enabled. runs great.
I am going to see if I can get Linux Lite on the laptop as well, but the EUFI boot may be somewhat lengthly. I'll try and post results in approriate forum topic.
I currently im dual booting LM kde with LinuxLite on a gateway that was before eufi. I love LinuxLite alot more, and use it almost exclusively now.
Optimus issue--- somewhat solved. I have tried every single which way described from guides online and from you guys.
I installed 340 driver, then bumblebee, and prime. I had to reboot after each package, tried installing all at once, no luck.
-It does work, however it freezes randomly with no errors.
-I did find that Cinnamon and Mate gave me lots of problems, but KDE i have no issues other than that.
*Temporary Solution CTRL/ALT/F1, then press CTRL/ALT/F8. It immediately unlocks the mouse and keyboard and screen, but
it is not a final fix. The reason I am doing this is that steam games were all messed up doing this any otherway.
After 2-3 lockups, it just stops happening. Comes out of sleep, no screen tearing etc...
I am going to mirror the HDD and try playing with installing Linux Lite and various boot methods and Nvidia solutions, keep ya posted.
Yes i kept Win8 on the machine and dual boot, triple soon. I just resized my windows partition (shrink), gave myself 80GB blank partition.
Then rebooted into live LM17, and installed to the unused space, manual partition (/=25GB /swap 4GB /home remaining).
The key was to point the eufi to boot From the Win eufi partition (fat32), it updates it when it reboots and i just select like a GRUB menu style loader.
No issues at all installing, booting or updating. Secure boot diasbled, CSM enabled. runs great.
I am going to see if I can get Linux Lite on the laptop as well, but the EUFI boot may be somewhat lengthly. I'll try and post results in approriate forum topic.
I currently im dual booting LM kde with LinuxLite on a gateway that was before eufi. I love LinuxLite alot more, and use it almost exclusively now.
Optimus issue--- somewhat solved. I have tried every single which way described from guides online and from you guys.
I installed 340 driver, then bumblebee, and prime. I had to reboot after each package, tried installing all at once, no luck.
-It does work, however it freezes randomly with no errors.
-I did find that Cinnamon and Mate gave me lots of problems, but KDE i have no issues other than that.
*Temporary Solution CTRL/ALT/F1, then press CTRL/ALT/F8. It immediately unlocks the mouse and keyboard and screen, but
it is not a final fix. The reason I am doing this is that steam games were all messed up doing this any otherway.
After 2-3 lockups, it just stops happening. Comes out of sleep, no screen tearing etc...
I am going to mirror the HDD and try playing with installing Linux Lite and various boot methods and Nvidia solutions, keep ya posted.
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*Hardware hacks are my speciality.
"forum posts should be like a skirt- long enough to cover the subject material, but short enough to keep things interesting"
--I am using/Running Linuxlite 2.8, Debian8 server, Ubuntu 14, Win7,Win10, MX15, LinuxMint kde.
--Xerox field service engineer, printer repairs,network analyst.