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belmin

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Registered: 2019-01-09

Posts: 1

Wrong graphic card detected.

Hello everyone.

I have just installed the Arch Linux and now I am struggling about installing Graphic drivers.
Currently I have two VGAs. 

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
	Kernel driver in use: i915
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01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF119M [GeForce 610M] (rev a1)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. GeForce GT 610M
	Kernel driver in use: nouveau

But when I visit the System Details infromation it says that I am using Intel® Sandybridge Mobile.
Like it is shown on this picture: https://imgur.com/r0F7Qi8

I have tried to install couple of drivers like nvidia, xf86-video-nouveau nvidia-utils, some lib32- packages, intel drivers etc etc but nothing seems to work. I even tried to download the driver from the original NVIDIA Page but it seems like it is broken because when there is time for Display Manager to display login form it just stays blank. I was going back and forth, installing and reinstalling driver packages and nothing seems to work.

What should I do now ? How to get this to work ?

jasonwryan

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From: .nz

Registered: 2009-05-09

Posts: 30,426

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Re: Wrong graphic card detected.

How did you install and run Gnome if your graphics stack is not working?

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romstor

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Registered: 2018-08-18

Posts: 54

Re: Wrong graphic card detected.

Looks like you have a laptop with hybrid graphics (also known as Optimus). Which method out of 5 did you use when you installed your system (as described in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA_Optimus)?

Last edited by romstor (2019-01-09 03:48:31)

bluetechgirl

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Registered: 2019-01-14

Posts: 18

Re: Wrong graphic card detected.

Like romstar said read: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA_Optimus. I will note that regardless of what graphics card you want to use, if you choose the manual method then setting BusID in your xorg config is not optional. I learned that the hard way when trying to switch back to my Intel card after manually setting up NVIDIA to work with the proprietary drivers.