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From: Eric McCorkle <eric@metricspace.net>
Subject: Re: Lenovo W540 so far
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 16:44:09 -0400
To: "parv@pair.com" <parv@pair.com>
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> On Jun 15, 2014, at 5:34 PM, parv@pair.com wrote:
> 
> in message <539DA73B.7050709@metricspace.net>,
> wrote Eric McCorkle thusly...
> 
>> Xorg: As previously mentioned, the nvidia driver is non-functional.  The
>> nv driver does not seem to support the on-board card (Quadro K1100).
>> The vesa driver works though.
> ...
> 
> Would there be differences in availability of colors & resolution
> when using VESA driver versus (working) Nvidia driver?
> 

I imagine the performance would be better and the CPU usage lower.