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NVIDIA M310 Driver Install - Samsung QX410 Laptop

Asked by Garret

All,

I have been trying to install the proprietary NVIDIA driver in support of video card M310 in my Samsung QX410 Laptop without success.

The normal pattern is this, I install the Ubuntu provided driver. I then reboot and check the NVIDIA X Server Settings and am told: "You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X driver. Please edit your X configuration file (just run `nvidia-xconfig` as root), and restart the X server." Next, I will reboot and run from recovery command 'nvidia-xconfig'. I then reboot and the start up screen moves from the graphical display to item by item service start-up lists, that then just hangs. Now not being able to boot into graphical mode, I reboot and go the the recovery command and use the apt-get purge nvidia* command and also rm the XCONF file; and again reboot. This will let me boot back into a standard X session (no NVIDIA drivers working).

I have tried to do this in Ubuntu, Xubuntu, and even in Fedora. One time I tried to install the drivers from NVIDIA proper and experienced the same issue. I wonder if something is not working in the current kernel(s) and the NVIDIA driver.

So, has anyone been able to install the NVIDIA drivers with a M3XX like video card?

Thank you,

Garret

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Garret (atticstorm-gmail) said : 		#1

Update:

I am running Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit, fully updated.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

What is the output of:

sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a; dpkg -l | grep nvidia

Thanks

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Garret (atticstorm-gmail) said : 		#3

actionparsnip, output follows:

*-display
       description: 3D controller
       product: GT218 [GeForce 310M]
       vendor: nVidia Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: a2
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0
       resources: irq:16 memory:f2000000-f2ffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f0000000-f1ffffff ioport:d000(size=128) memory:f3000000-f307ffff
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 02
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
       resources: irq:43 memory:f3400000-f37fffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff ioport:e080(size=8)
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
Codename: oneiric

Thank you,

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

Oh jesus is it one of those hybrid graphic card monstrosities?

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Garret (atticstorm-gmail) said : 		#5

Yes, it has an onboard Intel card and also a NVIDIA card to balance power usage with output needs. So for normal work onborad Intel is to do the work and when doing more highend graphics the NVIDIA card is to kick in.

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Garret (atticstorm-gmail) said : 		#6

Also, here is a link to the spec sheet:

www.samsung.com/us/.../npqx410j01us/QX410_J01_DSHT.pdf

Thank you,

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Garret (atticstorm-gmail) said : 		#7

Sorry, here is the link: http://www.samsung.com/us/computer/laptops/NP-QX410-J01US-specs

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#8

Yes its hybrid graphics hell. i have seen zero success stories with these. Nvidia have stated they will NOT support this on anything but Windows but there is a project called bumblebee trying to make it work. This may help:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HybridGraphics

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Garret (atticstorm-gmail) said : 		#9

Update:

Here is a link to a page with more hybrid card information: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1676243.htm

This also has more information: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/643895

It looks like due to not having full NVIDIA support a user has to choose to run NVIDIA and kill battery life, or run the integrated Intel and not have full graphics card video.

Thank you,

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Tony Van (anthonyvn) said : 		#10

I have an M400 NVS as well as some integrated intel graphics chipset.

I've disabled "optimus" (my lenovo claims it uses this to switch between the two cards) and set it to always use the discrete (nvidia) chipset.

I'm trying to install the driver but for the life of me cannot exit X server to do the install

sudo init.d/kde stop doesn't work as described in the ubuntu doco.

What is the command to exit X in Kubuntu 11.10?

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