I've been working with Ubuntu 16 (and 14 before that) on my new Lenovo t460P for some time now. While it's possible to work the user experience is inferior to what you get working with Windows on the same machine.
The main problem is with the responsiveness of the display. It's evident mostly on the browsers on the machine (FF and chrome), but also the general feel of the machine is "off".
I suspect that the OS is not taking full advantage of of the display hardware which should be quite good on this machine.
I have zero experience in tweaking display in Linux... where do I start?
- How do I check the current display performance?
- How do I check if the display card is active?
- If not active - what do I do?
Adding the lshw -c video ouput:
*-display UNCLAIMED
description: 3D controller
product: GM108M [GeForce 940MX]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
version: a2
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:f1000000-f1ffffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff memory:d0000000-d1ffffff ioport:d000(size=128)
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Intel Corporation
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 06
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=i915_bpo latency=0
resources: irq:128 memory:f0000000-f0ffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff ioport:e000(size=64)
sudo lshw -class video-> this should show some information about your display hardware, and what driver is being used. – Charles Green Oct 26 '17 at 02:05nvidia-prime), and several people have written about how to install the nvidia drivers. Please see https://askubuntu.com/questions/819322/fresh-installation-should-i-remove-nouveuau-before-install-nvidia-driver – Charles Green Oct 26 '17 at 12:21