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duc

Member

Registered: 2010-02-15

Posts: 2

Nvidia on VGN-Z540

Hello,
I've got a Sony Vaio VGN-Z540 which integrates a Nvidia graphic card. But I can't install the driver, neither nv, nouveau or the proprietary drivers work. Everytime, dmesg gives something like "failed to copy from V-bios to system memory".  Has anyone the same problem? Is there a solution for this?
Thank you.

shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: Nvidia on VGN-Z540

If you want to use nvidia blob, try nvnews forums.
If you want to try nouveau, you need kernel logs with nouveau enabled. And join #nouveau at freenode.

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flamelab

Member

From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 2,160

Re: Nvidia on VGN-Z540

What NVidia card is that ?

lspci | grep VGA ?

anonymous_user

Member

Registered: 2009-08-28

Posts: 3,059

Re: Nvidia on VGN-Z540

From searching, it seems to have a GeForce 9300M GS.