Hi All,

I bought Avell laptop with I5-6300HQ(skylake), 8GB ram memory, and gforce gtx 950M video card. I installed Ubuntu and Opensuse, but i had problems configuring the 2 video cards (intel and gforce), to hibernate the machine, not to run some keyboard shortcuts. As a beginner I would like a tip for a distro that I have more compatibility with my hardware or easier to configure in this type of situation.


Thank you.

Looks like same specs as ACER AS V5 591G (etc?); maybe edit Thread title (to attract more LQ'ers)

In web-researching, I ran across a couple mentions of Manjaro! Try 'live' distros? Latest Mint?

LQgurus: is 'hibernate' support in kernel/systemd/??? ?

You may need to 'get your hands a little CLI-dirty': LQ'ers help wonderfully -IF- 'proper' info provided!

Best wishes... WELCOME to LQ! Glad to see you have tried stuff!

Hello and welcome to LQ.

Only one suggestion, others may have better answer.

Maybe run Ubuntu. Use ubuntu kernel ppa page to update to 4.10.4 kernel. Then remove the installed nvidia opensourced and use closed source nvidia. At least for a test.

Hi,

to frank with you the 2 cards system Intel+Nvidia (Bumblebee package) is troublesome. I would say, if you do not really need so much graphics and if you are not so much into gaming, then use only the Intel HD Graphics internal card. It's quite good at performance and it is power saving.

You can do this by blacklisting the nouveau driver.

Welcome to the forum!

Your question may not be easy to answer, as I can't find anything about Linux on an Avell laptop; in fact, I'd never heard of the brand! You could try Mint, which tends to be one of the most hardware-tolerant distros.

That dual-video system is not properly supported on Linux, Nvidia having been less than helpful, and the Nvidia card eats batteries like mad. Installing Bumblebee enables you to switch manually, only using Nvidia when you need it — hardly ever.

Hibernating is often a problem, with difficulties originating from firmware, chipset, etc. It can be a pain to diagnose. Are you really sure you need it? Start-up times are pretty good these days.