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noodles

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Registered: 2010-07-18

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Lenovo Thinkpad W540 errors after new install [Solved]

Have only base and base-devel installed.
At boot, I see the message  " kernel: nouveau E[   VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] 0x64da[0]: script needs connector type"
I dont find it in the journal log until I have run

 $ lspci
W540 kernel: nouveau E[   VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] 0x64da[0]: script needs connector type 

and then it is right at the top.

$ lspci | grep -e VGA -e 3D
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107GLM [Quadro K1100M] (rev a1)

The BIOS settings do not allow me to disable either of the GPUs, can only change setting related to docking the laptop.

I am nowhere near an arch guru despite having used it for 4 years now.

After a few hours on reading online I thought I'd go ahead and install Xorg and video drivers and bumblebee, but bumblebee daemon wont run and I keep coming up against the above kernel nouveau message.

Any help is appreciated.

[EDIT]

after trying bumblebee with INTEL/NVIDIA and then trying nouveau/PRIME and back to INTEL/NVIDIA the nouveau error went away by inself.
In reading https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=187061 other folks also have this problem

Openbox is up.

Last edited by noodles (2014-11-28 18:42:40)