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l0cks

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Registered: 2019-03-05

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[SOLVED] NVIDIA drivers installation failure (Bumblebee on t520)

Hello everyone, its my first post here. I recently got this "new" thinkpad t520 and im triying to set up Bulblebee on it, problem is NVIDIA drivers wont install propperly, package its installed (nvidia) system is rebooted but still

#modprobe nvidia
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia': No such device

I read the Bumblebee and NVIDIA wiki pages and searched the internet for answers with no luck. I used to have a t420 years ago tried to get Bumblebee working but in the end I just rolled with integrated graphics, help me get this one working please .
Thanks in advance to the brave souls out there.

Last edited by l0cks (2019-03-05 16:24:53)

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 19,103

Re: [SOLVED] NVIDIA drivers installation failure (Bumblebee on t520)

Welcome to the arch linux forums l0cks.  What is the output of the following

pacman -Q linux
pacman -Qs nvidia
uname -a

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 78,615

Re: [SOLVED] NVIDIA drivers installation failure (Bumblebee on t520)

NVS 4200 requires the 390xx driver series.

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l0cks

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Registered: 2019-03-05

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Re: [SOLVED] NVIDIA drivers installation failure (Bumblebee on t520)

Thanks for the quick replys guys, in fact i got my nvidia chip to work by installin the 390xx package, I missunderstood and it seems I introduced my code wrong when lookin for it on the noveau page.
Special thanks to you Seth, right on the spot.