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jugs

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Registered: 2007-12-05

Posts: 39

Nvidia driver doesn't want to deal with Nvidia Video Card

Hello,

I've been having a nightmare trying to get the nvidia drivers running, to no avail. I'm in desperate need of help.

I've got a ThinkPad T410s with switchable graphics.

My lspci put for VGA is:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NVS 3100M (rev a2)

I've disabled the integrated Intel card in BIOS so arch does not even detect an alternative.
Before I installed the propriatary driver, nouveau was being loaded without any issues.
However, I need 3d.. So I'm trying to get the prop driver working.

Installed via pacman, the installation went smoothly, and after reboot nouveau is not loaded.
While it seems that the nvidia driver is loaded, it does not associate with my video card.

To better explain, here is my 'lsmod | grep video' output:

uvcvideo       61404 0
videodev       64318 1 uvcvideo
v4l1_compat 15578 2 uvcvideo,videodev
v4l2_compat_ioctl32 10212 0
video            19305 0
output            1940 1 video
i2c_core       18726 3 videodev,nvidia,i2c_i801
usbcore       137570 4 uvcvideo,btusb,ehci_hcd

So while it is 'loaded', it does not load to 'video' as it should. The card is compatible with the drivers as of 190/195, which was many months ago.
Please help!

TigTex

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2008-06-19

Posts: 301

Re: Nvidia driver doesn't want to deal with Nvidia Video Card

did you tried nvidia-xconfig ?

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jugs

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Registered: 2007-12-05

Posts: 39

Re: Nvidia driver doesn't want to deal with Nvidia Video Card

It's not an xorg issue is much lower than that.. Maybe somethin to do with the kernel and udev, or modaliases, I don't know.

thn81

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Registered: 2009-08-27

Posts: 88

Re: Nvidia driver doesn't want to deal with Nvidia Video Card

So while it is 'loaded', it does not load to 'video' as it should. The card is compatible with the drivers as of 190/195, which was many months ago.
Please help!

Why should the nvidia kernel module depend on the 'video' module? I don't think this module has anything to do with X.org or the nvidia driver (belongs to ACPI subsystem). If the nvidia module has been loaded and the nvidia-utils package is installed, it should work. Try removing the nouveau xorg driver as well.

Last edited by thn81 (2010-12-01 10:12:44)

indrora

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Registered: 2010-11-25

Posts: 17

Re: Nvidia driver doesn't want to deal with Nvidia Video Card

I had the same problem first time around
Run this:

nvidia-xconfig

as root. This will set things up with the official nVidia driver. Start X normally and have a nice day.

snack

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From: Italy

Registered: 2009-01-13

Posts: 861

Re: Nvidia driver doesn't want to deal with Nvidia Video Card

Just a guess: did you add the nomodeset option in your grub.cfg (for grub2) or menu.lst (for grub)?

migizi

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Registered: 2008-11-01

Posts: 23

Re: Nvidia driver doesn't want to deal with Nvidia Video Card

I don't know if you got this working or not but I had the same issue. I had to also make sure that the OS Detect mode in the BIOS was turned off as well. I set the BIOS to discrete graphics so it would only use the NVS 3100m GPU.

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: Nvidia driver doesn't want to deal with Nvidia Video Card

the current nvidia drivers does not support optimus configuration a.k.a hybrid. the only solution so far is to disable the other card from bios

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