Thinkpad T410s fails to load nvidia driver

[anshuiitk]

My T410s has two graphics card. The output of 'lspci | grep -i VGA' is shown below :

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT218 [NVS 3100M] (rev a2)

T410s only uses the embedded Intel Graphics card, but not the nvidia. Installing nvidia driver form ubuntu (nvidia current) or nvidia driver from nvidia official website, just crashes the gdm. The gdm refuses to restart. It gi
ves some usb_failure error. I suspect the driver is not compatible with the latest card.

Also this causes compiz to perform really bad (expos and spaces are very costly) due to which frequent freezes ar
e observed and the system has to be restarted.

WORKAROUND: Change the bios settings to always use nvidia card (descrete). This is not performant in terms of power optimization, but works.

[anshuiitk (himanshu-kgp)]

I found a workaround for this. The hybrid (Optimus technnology) does not works on linux. But in T410s you can change the bios settings to always use nvidia card (descrete). This is not performant in terms of power optimization, but works.

Please see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1628415 for further details.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

anshuiitk, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command in the development release from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux <replace-with-bug-number>

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text.

If this bug is fixed in the mainline kernel, please add the following tag 'kernel-fixed-upstream'.

If the mainline kernel does not fix this bug, please add the tag: 'kernel-bug-exists-upstream'.

If you are unable to test the mainline kernel, for example it will not boot, please add the tag: 'kernel-unable-to-test-upstream'.

Please let us know your results. Thanks in advance.

[anshuiitk (himanshu-kgp)]

Sorry Chris,

I dont have this T410s anymore.

Thanks,
Himanshu.

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Christopher M. Penalver <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> anshuiitk, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better.
> This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in
> it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try
> with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are
> available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .
>
> If it remains an issue, could you run the following command in the
> development release from a Terminal
> (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and
> attach updated debug information to this report.
>
> apport-collect -p linux <replace-with-bug-number>
>
> Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would
> be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the
> issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once
> you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-
> testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon
> next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and
> deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text.
>
> If this bug is fixed in the mainline kernel, please add the following
> tag 'kernel-fixed-upstream'.
>
> If the mainline kernel does not fix this bug, please add the tag:
> 'kernel-bug-exists-upstream'.
>
> If you are unable to test the mainline kernel, for example it will not
> boot, please add the tag: 'kernel-unable-to-test-upstream'.
>
> Please let us know your results. Thanks in advance.
>
> ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
>
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>
> Title:
> Thinkpad T410s fails to load nvidia driver
>
> Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> My T410s has two graphics card. The output of 'lspci | grep -i VGA' is
> shown below :
>
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor
> Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT218 [NVS 3100M]
> (rev a2)
>
> T410s only uses the embedded Intel Graphics card, but not the nvidia.
> Installing nvidia driver form ubuntu (nvidia current) or nvidia driver from
> nvidia official website, just crashes the gdm. The gdm refuses to restart.
> It gi
> ves some usb_failure error. I suspect the driver is not compatible with
> the latest card.
>
> Also this causes compiz to perform really bad (expos and spaces are very
> costly) due to which frequent freezes ar
> e observed and the system has to be restarted.
>
> WORKAROUND: Change the bios settings to always use nvidia card
> (descrete). This is not performant in terms of power optimization, but
> works.
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/744081/+subscriptions
>

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