Linux on Hybrid Graphics

[starry]

I have a laptop (lenovo y700), that I want to install linux on. I have tried manjaro kde, gnome, kubuntu, mint, and popos. All of which I was able to install, but upon booting for the first time failed to boot, which I am guessing is a result of the hybrid graphics on this particular laptop (HD530 and 960m).

Does anyone have any experience with this and is able to help me out?

 

Sorry for not providing much information, I am not sure how to begin troubleshooting this.

[AndreiArgeanu]

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[Beat_my_Laptop]

1 hour ago, starry said:

I have a laptop (lenovo y700), that I want to install linux on. I have tried manjaro kde, gnome, kubuntu, mint, and popos. All of which I was able to install, but upon booting for the first time failed to boot, which I am guessing is a result of the hybrid graphics on this particular laptop (HD530 and 960m).

Does anyone have any experience with this and is able to help me out?

 

Sorry for not providing much information, I am not sure how to begin troubleshooting this.

Same issue, different laptop precision 7500 series integrated & quadro p1000. Doesn't seem to play nice with every install but has no problem running Linux VMS all day

 

[starry]

1 hour ago, AndreiArgeanu said:

I haven't had any issues installing Ubuntu and Ubuntu Server on my Asus laptop that also has hybrid graphics, HD630+GTX 1050 and it worked fine out of the box. Not sure whether Ubuntu has better compatibility or whether there's an issue related to your hardware. But considering you already tried Kubuntu I suspect there could be an issue with your hardware or/and bios settings. So perhaps start in the bios and make changes, disabling features potentially related to the graphics or even other stuff like the CPU and see if anything works out. Could you give some more details on how it fails to boot? Does it boot-loop? Is it just a black screen? Is there a cursor?

I went to make a video to show my step by step process and recreate the problem, this time I did plain ol Ubuntu. Worked flawlessly out of the box. Was really hoping to use an arch based distro but I dont know enough about linux to make that work just yet. Guess that solves my problems for now, ill just bow to my overlords at canonical for the time being 

¯ \_(ツ)_/¯

 

I did notice that when ubuntu was installing it did a step that all the other distros I tried seemed to have skipped, which is that it set up the nvidia prime driver. Im thinking thats it.