nvidia g210m driver?

thea · 2010-04-13 13:40:04

I have a new Asus UL80VT with an NVidia G210M graphics card. I gather this card is not supported by the nvidia 195.36.15 driver. Is there an alternative?

thanks,

Thea

ctarwater · 2010-04-15 22:41:44

I have the ul50vt model which is similar...as of right now there is only experimental support.

Here http://www.linlap.com/wiki/asus+ul80vt is a link with a breakdown of basic linux compatibility right now.

Check out these links for the various community support of hybrid-graphics currently in the works. It seems like the project in the first link is working itself into the next major kernel release so we may get lucky!

http://asusm51ta-with-linux.blogspot.com/

http://linux-hybrid-graphics.blogspot.c … re-is.html

http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21979

thea · 2010-04-20 12:56:33

Thanks ctarwater! I will check out these links.

Thea

_sl_ · 2010-04-25 16:03:11

I have ul50vt with g210m.
arch x86
nvidia 195.36.15

I found some interesting solution on forums:
BIOS -> Advanced -> SATA Operation Mode set to "Compatible"
boot from "Arch Linux Fallback" and rebuild kernel26.img (sudo mkinitcpio -p kernel26)
configure X server for nvidia
and then reboot with standart kernel26.img

now X works with nvidia card

Last edited by _sl_ (2010-04-25 16:03:27)

ctarwater · 2010-04-25 16:50:32

@ _sl_
I Have a ul50vt as well and if I can get this to work, I'll be very grateful. Thanks!

Now I'm wondering if we can adapt this tool to work so that we can switch between the g210m and the integrated intel graphics card: http://asusm51ta-with-linux.blogspot.com/

It was originally written for fedora to allow switching between intel/ati hybrid graphics...but...well...I'm hopeful.

Thanks again!

ctarwater · 2010-04-25 20:09:42

when I try to boot after changing the sata mode settings in the BIOS I get a kernel panic with the following output:

unable to determine major/minor number of root device

and it spits me out to ramfs.

I've tried booting to fallback and straight to run level 3 with the same results. I typically use uuid but I tried it by defining sda[x] and get the same result.

How did you do it?

_sl_ · 2010-04-26 04:15:23

at first a have the same result, but when i booting to Fallback it worked fine
I have all last updates:
kernel - 2.6.33-ARCH i686

ctarwater wrote:

I've tried booting to fallback and straight to run level 3 with the same results.

it was 'ramfs' or 'level 3' at second time? Have you a normal user console or only recovery?
if it was 'level 3' you need configure X and rebuild kernel26

second idea - booting from flash or live cd, chroot the main system and rebuild kernel26

ctarwater wrote:

I typically use uuid

I too

Last edited by _sl_ (2010-04-26 04:18:30)

florut · 2010-07-18 11:30:51

_sl_ wrote:

I have ul50vt with g210m.
arch x86
nvidia 195.36.15
I found some interesting solution on forums:
BIOS -> Advanced -> SATA Operation Mode set to "Compatible"
boot from "Arch Linux Fallback" and rebuild kernel26.img (sudo mkinitcpio -p kernel26)
configure X server for nvidia
and then reboot with standart kernel26.img
now X works with nvidia card

Did it really work for you? and what about nvidia drivers? Did you first uninstall intel ones + install nvidia ones?

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#1 2010-04-13 13:40:04

nvidia g210m driver?

#2 2010-04-15 22:41:44

Re: nvidia g210m driver?

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#4 2010-04-25 16:03:11

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#5 2010-04-25 16:50:32

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#6 2010-04-25 20:09:42

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#7 2010-04-26 04:15:23

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#8 2010-07-18 11:30:51

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