Comment 7 for bug 744081

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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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/744081
>
> 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.
>
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--
Himanshu Gupta.