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.
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
Not the person you’re replying to, but I happen to have a writeup on my blog! https://timkenhan.co/blog/20230720--w530-coreboot
Great post! I didnt get the W530 in the end as 350€ is pretty much for such an old laptop, but someone else wanted it so bad…
I destroyed my CH341A and now I got a blue one but still shipping, then I will flash my T430 which should make no problems, no NVIDIA and all
Should be more straightforward without the Nvidia stuff since you don’t need the option ROM for it.
I never have T430, but all the 30 series should be the same in term of flashing procedure except for the chip locations.
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…
I mean, the fans should kick up to highest level. I remember thinkpadfancontrol on windows, great software. This never happened and on Linux I never had my fans at level 7 no matter the heat
The fan did maxed out. Seems it’s not enough. Maybe it’s the hot weather. The AC helps a lot. I’ll also be checking the thermal paste soon.