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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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/726638
>
> Title:
>  Proprietary nVidia driver fails on Lenovo T510 laptop
>
> Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers” package in Ubuntu:
>  New
>
> Bug description:
>  I attempted to enable the nVidia driver through the
>  "System"=>"Administration"=>"Additional Drivers" panel.  After the
>  "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=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-25-generic root=UUID=78540c13-6a8a-4346-bad5-3dc9ada0dbf1 ro quiet splash
>  Build Date: 09 January 2011  12:14:27PM
>  xorg-server 2:1.9.0-0ubuntu7.3 (For technical support please see http://www.ubuntu.com/support)
>  Current version of pixman: 0.18.4
>        Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
>        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/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon Feb 28 08:16:41 2011
>  (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
>  (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
>  (EE) No devices detected.
>
>  Fatal server error:
>  no screens found
>
>  Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
>         at http://wiki.x.org
>   for help.
>  Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
>
>   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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