any successful installation on Lenovo Z4070 - 59436162

[jun_pao_park]

Hi my name is junpao and I'm new to linux. I hope you guys can understand if my question is too dumb or what-not. I'm just hoping you can help me out with this one. So I'm planning to buy a Laptop Lenovo Z4070 - 59436162Processor : Intel Core i5-4210U Processor (3M Cache, up to 2.70 GHz)
Operating System : Windows 8.1
Graphics : 2GB NVIDIA Geforce 820M
Memory : 4GB DDR3
Webcam : HD 720p camera (1M pixel)
Storage : 500GB
Audio : Stereo speakers with Dolby® Home Theater®
Battery : 4Cell
Display : 14-inch FHD (1920 x 1080)
16:9 widescreen
ODD : Integrated ODD
Dimensions : 13.74" x 9.6" x 0.97" (349 mm x 245 mm x 24.8 mm)
Weight : 2.1kg (4.62 lbs)
Bluetooth® : Bluetooth® 4.0
802.11 a/c or 802.11 b/g/n
WiFi
10 / 100 / 1000M LAN
Ports : 1 x USB 3.0
2 x USB 2.0
Audio Combo Jack
HDMI-out
2-in-1 (SD / MMC) card reader

I just want to know if I can install ubuntu in this machine. coz Ive seen discussions where a lot of laptops never had an installation of ubuntu without tweaking something before it works fully fine. hope its not the case in this machine. thanks in advance!!!

[jun_pao_park]

Hi my name is junpao and I'm new to linux. I hope you guys can understand if my question is too dumb or what-not. I'm just hoping you can help me out with this one. So I'm planning to buy a Laptop Lenovo Z4070 - 59436162Processor : Intel Core i5-4210U Processor (3M Cache, up to 2.70 GHz)
Operating System : Windows 8.1
Graphics : 2GB NVIDIA Geforce 820M
Memory : 4GB DDR3
Webcam : HD 720p camera (1M pixel)
Storage : 500GB
Audio : Stereo speakers with Dolby® Home Theater®
Battery : 4Cell
Display : 14-inch FHD (1920 x 1080)
16:9 widescreen
ODD : Integrated ODD
Dimensions : 13.74" x 9.6" x 0.97" (349 mm x 245 mm x 24.8 mm)
Weight : 2.1kg (4.62 lbs)
Bluetooth® : Bluetooth® 4.0
802.11 a/c or 802.11 b/g/n
WiFi
10 / 100 / 1000M LAN
Ports : 1 x USB 3.0
2 x USB 2.0
Audio Combo Jack
HDMI-out
2-in-1 (SD / MMC) card reader

I just want to know if I can install ubuntu in this machine. coz Ive seen discussions where a lot of laptops never had install ubuntu without tweaking something before it works fully fine. hope its not the case in this machine.

[slickymaster]

Threads merged.

Please do not create duplicate threads, it dilutes the community’s efforts to provide support and causes confusion.

[oldfred]

Very new Broadwell processor with separate nVidia processor.

You need 14.10 or maybe even 15.04. And even then you may need the newest drivers, support software & kernels from ppas.

Thinkpad X1 Carbon may have somewhat similar settings?
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=9way-nehalem-broadwell&num=1
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=X1+Carbon Broadwell (future) fix for use with 14.04's 3.13 kernel. Fixes really in 3.15 kernel
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTY0ODY


Older Lenovo, you may have similar issues:
Lenovo Thinkpad E531 - turn off locked boot order setting in UEFI
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2255746
[SOLVED] Error 1962: No operating system found. Lenovo K430 only boot Ubuntu, rename files
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2243715
Some Lenovos comes with a physical switch that enables you to select which graphics adapter to use.
Lenovo Z510 Laptop & Ubuntu
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2232124
Installing GNU/Linux on a 2014 Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon UEFI/BIOS suspend to RAM issue
http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/installing-gnulinux-on-an-2014-lenovo-thinkpad-x1-carbon


This was a Dell:
Dell XPS13 - New Broadwell, not yet fully supported Feb 2015
http://major.io/2015/02/03/linux-support-dell-xps-13-9343-2015-model/
http://askubuntu.com/questions/395743/how-to-install-ubuntu-on-xps-15-platinum-2014-version-properly

nVidia Prime also requires the very latest:

Dual graphics install nVidia prime and newer nVidia driver
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/HybridGraphics
http://www.webupd8.org/2014/01/prime-indicator-lets-you-quickly-switch.html
Getting hybrid graphics to work nvidia-prime GT650M - but you want most current nVidia driver available
http://askubuntu.com/questions/412452/getting-hybrid-graphics-to-work-nvidia-prime-gt650m
http://www.webupd8.org/2013/12/more-work-to-support-nvidia-optimus.html
Testing NVIDIA Optimus / DRI PRIME On Ubuntu 14.04
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_prime_ubuntu1404&num=1

[jun_pao_park]

I'm so sorry ;( the cafe's internet connection sucks. When I click the post button it gives me a blank page so i did it again >.<

[jun_pao_park]

Very new Broadwell processor with separate nVidia processor.

You need 14.10 or maybe even 15.04. And even then you may need the newest drivers, support software & kernels from ppas.


thank you for the links It would be a good read later for I'm not that familiar yet tweaking with linux.
I cant use the 14.04 with the long term support? and sorry to say that I'm still not that familiar with kernels and stuffs. Should I learn those first? Is this really how hard you can install or use linux on any specific machine that you would loved? cant we install linux in any machine with having a lot of tweaking? every installation gives a bunch of problems and you need to know a lot of tweaking before it works fine. Omg I really like ubuntu hope its more user friendly though. Thanks a lot! an I hope you understand my frustration ;((

[oldfred]

Linux is very user friendly on a bit older equipment. It is when you have very new hardware that is is an issue as many vendors offer little or no support for the Linux community. And new hardware has so many new features that even if you install Windows from scratch, you have to do a lot to fully configure it.

In the bad old days of Linux you had to compile your own software and keep track of dependencies or what support programs were required. That is now all automatic with most distributions.
But when you have very new hardware you may have to download newer drivers. Normally the Ubuntu repository has all the drivers & software you need. But if you need something newer then you can add a ppa which is another repository. You do need to know & trust repository as it is installing software from another source than Ubuntu. But then you can get very new kernels & drivers that others compile for you. Often best to have one working system and experiment with another install on same hard drive.

With your system, 14.04 will probably not work without adding the ppa & updating kernel, support drivers & nvidia driver. You in effect are converting it to 15.04 yourself. A distribution has to freeze the versions it will use as it does test and make sure things generally work. But if you have the newer hardware you may need the versions released after the distribution version freeze.

[markjville]

I have installed Ubuntu 14.04 with latest updates (4/30/15), and I have tested many components. Wireless, ethernet, camera, microphone, restart, trackpad seem to work as expected. What does not work is suspend/resume. I tried using the NVidia driver as well as the Nouveau driver, but still could not resume to GUI. The only work around I found was to disable the NVidia GPU in the BIOS and use the Intel HD 4400 chip instead. Now resume works as expected. I conclude that that resume issue is in the NVidia GPU dept.