Laptop Gaming Lenovo Legion Pro 5 16IRX8 compatibility with Ubuntu

[sergiuneag]

Hi, I'm interested in purchasing this laptop, but I'm unsure about its compatibility with Ubuntu. Has anyone tried using Ubuntu on a laptop with these specifications?

• Intel® Core™ i9-13900HX 5.4 GHz
• 16" WQXGA IPS 240Hz
• 32GB RAM
• 1TB SSD
• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB GDDR6

If anyone has experience with this laptop and Ubuntu, I would appreciate any insights or feedback. Thank you!

 

[Alexzee]

Nice laptop!
Here's the spec's if you need it. Or> for anyone who would like to chime in.

Before you purchase that Gaming Laptop you should find out if the Linux x64 driver for that Nvidia GPU works.

Nvidia doesn't always play nice with Linux.

Geforce Driver Results | NVIDIA

Download the <dd~LanguageName> <dd~Name> for <dd~OSName> systems. Released <dd~ReleaseDateTime>

www.nvidia.com

Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver | 535.98 | Linux 64-bit | NVIDIA

Download the English (US) Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver for Linux 64-bit systems. Released 2023.8.8

www.nvidia.com

 

[f33dm3bits]

Don't use the run file to install the Nvidia driver, it will stop working when you install a kernel update and you will have to do it all over again. Instead just install the driver from the default Ubuntu repos, the needed 535.x.x driver for the 4000 series is in there. It will be something like this.

sudo apt install nvidia-driver-535

 

[Alexzee]

Used APT to find the Nvidia driver.

 nvidia-driver                   - NVIDIA metapackage                       
v   nvidia-driver-any               -                                           
p   nvidia-driver-bin               - NVIDIA driver support binaries           
v   nvidia-driver-bin-470.199.02    -                                           
v   nvidia-driver-bin-525.125.06    -                                           
p   nvidia-driver-libs              - NVIDIA metapackage (OpenGL/GLX/EGL/GLES li
p   nvidia-driver-libs:i386         - NVIDIA metapackage (OpenGL/GLX/EGL/GLES li
v   nvidia-driver-libs-any          -                                           
v   nvidia-driver-libs-any:i386     -                                           
v   nvidia-driver-libs:i386         -

 

[Alexzee]

 apt-cache search nvidia-driver
glx-alternative-nvidia - allows the selection of NVIDIA as GLX provider
nvidia-open-kernel-dkms - NVIDIA open kernel module DKMS source
nvidia-open-kernel-source - NVIDIA open kernel module source
libegl-nvidia0 - NVIDIA binary EGL library
libgl1-nvidia-glvnd-glx - NVIDIA binary OpenGL/GLX library (GLVND variant)
libgles-nvidia1 - NVIDIA binary OpenGL|ES 1.x library
libgles-nvidia2 - NVIDIA binary OpenGL|ES 2.x library
libglx-nvidia0 - NVIDIA binary GLX library
nvidia-alternative - allows the selection of NVIDIA as GLX provider
nvidia-detect - NVIDIA GPU detection utility
nvidia-driver - NVIDIA metapackage
nvidia-driver-bin - NVIDIA driver support binaries
nvidia-driver-libs - NVIDIA metapackage (OpenGL/GLX/EGL/GLES libraries)
nvidia-kernel-dkms - NVIDIA binary kernel module DKMS source
nvidia-kernel-source - NVIDIA binary kernel module source
xserver-xorg-video-nvidia - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver
nvidia-tesla-driver - NVIDIA metapackage (Tesla version)
nvidia-tesla-driver-bin - NVIDIA driver support binaries (Tesla version)
nvidia-tesla-driver-libs - NVIDIA metapackage (OpenGL/GLX/EGL/GLES libraries) (Tesla version)
nvidia-tesla-470-driver - NVIDIA metapackage (Tesla 470 version)
nvidia-tesla-470-driver-bin - NVIDIA driver support binaries (Tesla 470 version)
nvidia-tesla-470-driver-libs - NVIDIA metapackage (OpenGL/GLX/EGL/GLES libraries) (Tesla 470 version)

I tried apt-cache search nvidia-driver-535. The command-line returned nothing.?!
Wonder why?

 

[f33dm3bits]

I tried apt-cache search nvidia-driver-535. The command-line returned nothing.?!
Wonder why?

I did the following on Ubuntu 22.04.

apt-cache search nvidia | grep ^nvidia | grep 535