I dont really want to use that proprietary driver, but I plan on getting an old Thinkpad W530 that has some probably pretty slow NVIDIA GPU. Do you know if these are well supported by Noveau? Would be great!
I want to play around with coreboot, flashing heads onto that laptop and all.
I’m running coreboot on a Thinkpad W530 and I’ve been doing fine.
I’m encountering some overheating issues and it might be due to the subpar dynamic power management thing, but only when it’s under heavy load. I am running Gentoo and would be compiling big stuff like KDE, qtwebengine, and libreoffice. Sometimes the thermal shutdown would kick in, but thing’s been better with cooling pad and air conditioning. I’ll probably reapply the thermal paste soon.
Whoo, that sounds bad. I hope a more aggressive fancurve could fix this, it shoould be possible using thinkfan? Never succeeded with that software and its weird old documentation.
Btw, do you have any guide for flashing? A photo of your process, the location of the chips, names, order, extracting blobs etc? Documentation is so important! I will write some for the T430 and maybe W530 for heads
The overheating isn’t much of an issue in other cases. When I’m not building packages, the temperature is on safe level. I’ve also ran Debian & Linux Mint on it with no issue (with nouveau)
I don’t have any writeup on it, unfortunately…
Not the person you’re replying to, but I happen to have a writeup on my blog! https://timkenhan.co/blog/20230720--w530-coreboot
