Video problem with Linux Mint 17 CInnamon on new Z70-80 laptop

I read that Lenovo has pretty good hardware support for Linux, so I bought a Lenovo Z70-80 laptop and installed Mint 17 Cinnamon on it. Mint runs without errors, but the video looks like it is underwater or hot oil. Text is hard to read with whole display fuzzy and jittery. Clearly the video driver loaded has problems. On boot up, the LM logo appears rock-solid, without any problems, but once mdm runs, video looks distorted and jittery. Changing resolutions has no effect on the problem.
Identified video hardware says Intel integrated:
lspci -nn |grep VGA
VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics [8086:1616] (rev 09)
But laptop has NVIDIA GEFORCE sticker on it, so perhaps it is running switchable graphics, or that was the design for Windows 8 that came installed on it. I installed bumblebee and rebooted but that had no effect. /# find ./ *NVIDIA* returned nothing, but if Linux doesn't know about the GEFORCE hardware, I don't know how Nouveau is supposed to be made to work.
I also went into the BIOS Configuration / Graphic Device Setting and changed it from the default [Discrete] to [UMA only] to use only the integrated graphic controller, but that also had no effect on the problem.
Not sure what to do next. Could use some help.
Thanks,
Lee
Fairfax, VA USA

I experienced the same thing.Add "nomodeset xforcevesa" to the grub settings to start linux mint nicely, without the watery/oily jittery screen.So have a look at the following (copy paste in the address line of your brouwser): http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=122257and read the section after; If you can't boot successfully after installing Linux Mint. When this works (it worked for me) see:http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=140689to make the setting permanent in grub.I changed the line in grub to:GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset xforcevesa"(don't forget the 'sudo update-grub' command) Next steps to take is to get the proper drivers for the Intel graphics card. (Not covered here. Maybe someone can help on this...). Cheers,Ronald

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