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.

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    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

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        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

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          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.

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      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…

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        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

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          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.