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| ethanbrown (ethandbrown) wrote Re: [Bug 726638] Re: Proprietary nVidia driver fails on Lenovo T510 laptop | #3 |
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Thanks Wayne. It was rather frustrating when I was researching this
to find that no one else seemed to be having trouble. Do you think
the problem is with the Lenovo BIOS issues or with nVidia? I'll try
the BIOS "Discrete" option when I get some time.
--Ethan
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Wayne Davison <email address hidden> wrote:
> I have a T510, and the nvidia driver loads fine for me (I'm testing the
> latest Natty). I do have the Display changed in the BIOS to tell the
> system that I have the nvidia graphics ("Discrete") rather than Optimus.
> Maybe your BIOS is set to Optimus?
>
> However, once I have the nvidia driver going, the information for my
> displays is not right. The displays are reported fine under the nouveau
> driver, so there is something about the nvidia driver that makes things
> like xrandr unable to query things. For instance, the Monitor utility
> reports just a single display tagged with "Unknown" even with an
> external display plugged in.
>
> Here is the xrandr info with the nvida driver (note the opening error
> and the use of "default"):
>
> xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 175, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 1920 x 1080
> default connected 1920x1080+0+0 0mm x 0mm
> 1920x1080 50.0* 51.0 52.0 53.0
> 1680x1050 54.0
> 1600x1024 55.0
> 1440x900 56.0
> 1400x1050 57.0
> 1360x768 58.0 59.0
> 1280x1024 60.0 61.0
> 1280x960 62.0
> 1152x864 63.0 64.0 65.0 66.0 67.0 68.0
> 1024x768 69.0 70.0 71.0 72.0 73.0 74.0
> 960x720 75.0
> 960x600 76.0
> 960x540 77.0
> 928x696 78.0
> 896x672 79.0 80.0
> 840x525 81.0 82.0 83.0 84.0 85.0
> 832x624 86.0
> 800x600 87.0 88.0 89.0 90.0 91.0 92.0 93.0 94.0 95.0 96.0
> 800x512 97.0
> 720x450 98.0
> 720x400 99.0
> 700x525 100.0 101.0 102.0 103.0
> 680x384 104.0 105.0
> 640x512 106.0 107.0 108.0
> 640x480 109.0 110.0 111.0 112.0 113.0 114.0
> 640x400 115.0
> 640x350 116.0
> 576x432 117.0 118.0 119.0 120.0 121.0 122.0 123.0
> 512x384 124.0 125.0 126.0 127.0 128.0
> 416x312 129.0
> 400x300 130.0 131.0 132.0 133.0 134.0
> 360x200 135.0
> 320x240 136.0 137.0 138.0 139.0
> 320x200 140.0
> 320x175 141.0
>
> And here is the xrandr information when I'm using the nouveau driver
> (note that it finds my external monitor and gets the labels right):
>
> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3840 x 1200, maximum 8192 x 8192
> LVDS-1 connected 1920x1080+1920+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 344mm x 193mm
> 1920x1080 60.0*+ 60.0 50.0
> 1920x1080_60.00 60.0
> 1680x1050 60.0
> 1400x1050 60.0
> 1280x1024 59.9
> 1280x960 59.9
> 1152x864 60.0
> 1024x768 59.9
> 800x600 59.9
> 640x480 59.4
> 720x400 59.6
> 640x400 60.0
> 640x350 59.8
> VGA-1 connected 1920x1200+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 518mm x 324mm
> 1920x1200 60.0*+
> 1680x1050 60.0
> 1400x1050 60.0
> 1280x1024 75.0 60.0
> 1440x900 59.9
> 1280x960 60.0
> 1152x864 75.0
> 1024x768 75.1 70.1 60.0
> 832x624 74.6
> 800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2
> 640x480 72.8 75.0 66.7 60.0
> 720x400 70.1
> DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
> DP-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
> DP-3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
>
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> Title:
> Proprietary nVidia driver fails on Lenovo T510 laptop
>
> Status in “nvidia-
> New
>
> Bug description:
> I attempted to enable the nVidia driver through the
> "System"
> "Searching", "Installing" phase it requests a reboot. Although the
> Ubuntu boot splash displays, X never comes up, and it dumps you to the
> console login. The only way I was able to get X to come up was to
> remove /etc/X11/xorg.conf and reboot.
>
> The card info (from lspci) is:
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT218 [NVS 3100M] (rev a2)
>
> I'm including the Xorg
> The stderr output from startx is:
>
> I'm attaching the Xorg log as an attachment due to its size.
>
> X.Org X Server 1.9.0
> Release Date: 2010-08-20
> X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
> Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.24-28-server x86_64 Ubuntu
> Current Operating System: Linux rover 2.6.35-25-generic #44-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 21 17:40:44 UTC 2011 x86_64
> Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=
> Build Date: 09 January 2011 12:14:27PM
> xorg-server 2:1.9.0-0ubuntu7.3 (For technical support please see http://
> Current version of pixman: 0.18.4
> Before reporting problems, check http://
> to make sure that you have the latest version.
> Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
> (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
> (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
> (==) Log file: "/var/log/
> (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/
> (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/
> (EE) No devices detected.
>
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
>
> Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
> at http://
> for help.
> Please also check the log file at "/var/log/
>
> ddxSigGiveUp: Closing log
> giving up.
>
> xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X
> server
>
> xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
>
>
> The xorg.conf configuration is:
>
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Default Screen"
> DefaultDepth 24
> EndSection
>
> Section "Module"
> Load "glx"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Default Device"
> Driver "nvidia"
> Option "NoLogo" "True"
> EndSection
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