Thread: nVidia Driver Problems

hi everyone,

i've bought shiney new laptop, asus n53s series thingy, i've installed ubuntu on.

laptop has 2 video cards, 1 onboard intel job, designed low power usage, , nvidia geforce gt550m more advanced graphics.

when installed ubuntu booted using intel graphics card , (after whinging) booted in "ubuntu classic" mode (without unity etc). downloaded latest nvidia drivers, , ran nvidia-xconfig create xorg.conf file, when reboot x new file, complains there being no available displays, , can't start x manually without removing xorg.conf file.

have suggestions how around one? attached xorg.conf nvidia-xconfig creates, , output of lspci | grep vga in terminal.

if need more info please let me know.

cheers

adam

ps i'm running 64 bit ubuntu 11.04

code:

# nvidia-xconfig: x configuration file generated nvidia-xconfig  # nvidia-xconfig:  version 270.41.06  (buildmeister@swio-display-x86-rhel47-08.nvidia.com)  mon apr 18 15:14:00 pdt 2011    section "serverlayout"      identifier     "layout0"      screen      0  "screen0"      inputdevice    "keyboard0" "corekeyboard"      inputdevice    "mouse0" "corepointer"  endsection    section "files"  endsection    section "inputdevice"      # generated default      identifier     "mouse0"      driver         "mouse"      option         "protocol" "auto"      option         "device" "/dev/psaux"      option         "emulate3buttons" "no"      option         "zaxismapping" "4 5"  endsection    section "inputdevice"      # generated default      identifier     "keyboard0"      driver         "kbd"  endsection    section "monitor"      identifier     "monitor0"      vendorname     "unknown"      modelname      "unknown"      horizsync       28.0 - 33.0      vertrefresh     43.0 - 72.0      option         "dpms"  endsection    section "device"      identifier     "device0"      driver         "nvidia"      vendorname     "nvidia corporation"  endsection    section "screen"      identifier     "screen0"      device         "device0"      monitor        "monitor0"      defaultdepth    24      subsection     "display"          depth       24      endsubsection  endsection

code:

00:02.0 vga compatible controller: intel corporation 2nd generation core processor family integrated graphics controller (rev 09)  01:00.0 vga compatible controller: nvidia corporation device 0df6 (rev a1)

nvidia optimus linux support not there yet. should go bios , check if can disable integrated gpu run on discrete nvidia card or try find out how disable nvidia card software.

sandy bridge gpu fast , without nvidia card if you're not going run high end games. in end must choose 1 of them.

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