No second screen, no full screen with VMware, and more

[abishur]

Back in this thread I asked about getting bumblebee setup in Mint 14. I in lieu of an answer it was suggested I upgrade to 17. Despite my concerns about stability with the upgrade, I finally made the plunge and upgraded.

And now I have the regrets

I'm using a Dell Latitude E6530 which uses a nVidia graphics card. It appears that bumblebee is now integrated by default with Mint and I should be able to make changes under the nvidia control panel, except I can't. All the changes I try to make are rejected, I'm using the nouveau driver (using the nvidia-331 created stability issues for me when I added or removed a monitor).

Which is another thing, I cannot add a second monitor, when I try to I can see it in my displays, but any time I try to make a change it rejects the change.

Finally I cannot go into full screen with VMware Workstation, instead it minimizes to the background and I have to right click on the VM icon in my taskbar and forcibly shutdown the VM.

Does anyone have any ideas why my laptop, which functioned well with Mint 14, has suddenly become unstable with Mint 17?

[austin.texas]

Please provide info on your computer.

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inxi -Fxz

[abishur]

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System:    Host:  ------------- Kernel: 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64 (64 bit, gcc: 4.8.2) 
           Desktop: Gnome Distro: Linux Mint 17 Qiana
Machine:   System: Dell product: Latitude E6530 version: 01
           Mobo: Dell model: 07Y85M version: A01 Bios: Dell version: A13 date: 08/27/2013
CPU:       Quad core Intel Core i7-3740QM CPU (-HT-MCP-) cache: 6144 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 21528.4 
           Clock Speeds: 1: 1200.00 MHz 2: 1200.00 MHz 3: 1200.00 MHz 4: 1200.00 MHz 5: 1700.00 MHz 6: 1200.00 MHz 7: 1200.00 MHz 8: 1200.00 MHz
Graphics:  Card-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller bus-ID: 00:02.0 
           Card-2: NVIDIA GF108GLM [NVS 5200M] bus-ID: 01:00.0 
           X.Org: 1.15.1 drivers: (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) FAILED: nouveau,intel Resolution: 1920x1080@60.2hz 
           GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ivybridge Mobile GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.1.0 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio:     Card: Intel 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: k3.13.0-24-generic
Network:   Card-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection driver: e1000e ver: 2.3.2-k port: f080 bus-ID: 00:19.0
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Broadcom BCM43228 802.11a/b/g/n driver: wl bus-ID: 03:00.0
           IF: wlan0 state: dormant mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 1750.4GB (31.2% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: TOSHIBA_MQ01ABD1 size: 1000.2GB 
           2: id: /dev/sdb model: WDC_WD7500BPKX size: 750.2GB 
Partition: ID: / size: 241G used: 41G (18%) fs: ext4 ID: swap-1 size: 8.19GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap 
RAID:      No RAID devices detected - /proc/mdstat and md_mod kernel raid module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 43.5C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A 
Info:      Processes: 348 Uptime: 1 day Memory: 1558.6/15922.3MB Runlevel: 2 Gcc sys: 4.8.2 Client: Shell inxi: 1.8.4 

[abishur]

I noticed it said "FAILED' in relation to my graphics card, googling led me to another thread here on the forum where they suggesting doing

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dpkg --get-selections | grep 'nouv\|nvidia'

to make sure I don't have duplicates installed causing problems. Here are the results on my latop

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libdrm-nouveau2:amd64				install
libdrm-nouveau2:i386				install
nvidia-331					deinstall
nvidia-libopencl1-331				deinstall
nvidia-opencl-icd-331				install
nvidia-prime					install
nvidia-settings					install
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau			install

[abishur]

So far I haven't been able to find any solution for this issue, has anyone else had to deal with this before?

[PatH57]

so far only your intel card seems to work but it could be a problem with the inxi report.

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sudo inxi -U

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inxi -Fxz

[abishur]

Here are the results after running the two commands

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System:    Host: ----------    Kernel: 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 4.8.2)
           Desktop: Cinnamon 2.2.16 (Gtk 3.10.8~3+qiana) Distro: Linux Mint 17 Qiana
Machine:   System: Dell product: Latitude E6530 v: 01
           Mobo: Dell model: 07Y85M v: A01 Bios: Dell v: A13 date: 08/27/2013
CPU:       Quad core Intel Core i7-3740QM (-HT-MCP-) cache: 6144 KB
           flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 21530
           Clock speeds: max: 2701 MHz 1: 1200 MHz 2: 1200 MHz 3: 1200 MHz 4: 1200 MHz 5: 1200 MHz 6: 1200 MHz
           7: 1200 MHz 8: 1200 MHz
Graphics:  Card-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller bus-ID: 00:02.0
           Card-2: NVIDIA GF108GLM [NVS 5200M] bus-ID: 01:00.0
           Display Server: X.Org 1.15.1 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) FAILED: nouveau
           Resolution: 1920x1080@60.2hz, 1920x1080@60.0hz
           GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ivybridge Mobile GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.1.3 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio:     Card Intel 7 Series/C210 Series Family High Definition Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k3.13.0-24-generic
Network:   Card-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection driver: e1000e v: 2.3.2-k port: f080 bus-ID: 00:19.0
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Broadcom BCM43228 802.11a/b/g/n driver: wl bus-ID: 03:00.0
           IF: wlan0 state: dormant mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 1750.4GB (37.4% used) ID-1: /dev/sda model: TOSHIBA_MQ01ABD1 size: 1000.2GB temp: 37C
           ID-2: /dev/sdb model: WDC_WD7500BPKX size: 750.2GB temp: 31C
Partition: ID-1: / size: 241G used: 40G (18%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 8.19GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5
RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 40.5C mobo: N/A
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 228 Uptime: 20:18 Memory: 938.6/15922.3MB Init: Upstart runlevel: 2 Gcc sys: 4.8.2
           Client: Shell (bash 4.3.111) inxi: 2.2.5 

[PatH57]

ok the drivers failed for the nvidia card.
check in control center, driver manager if drivers are listed for nvidia?

[abishur]

Okay, I reinstalled the nvidia-331 drivers and now inxi- Fxz shows everything normal. However, I'm still having the same problems. Also when I try to switch to the intel GPU, x server crashes completely until I change it back to the nvidia gpu. Do I need to use the older version of the nvidia driver? (nvidia-304)

[PatH57]

the safest way I found to swap drivers is to use the xorg-edgers ppa (never failed so far)
http://www.binarytides.com/install-nvid ... ntu-14-04/

[abishur]

Still no luck on being able to add a second monitor, but I did get the VMware issue resolved by doing

apt-get install libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a

as was mentioned over here http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 97#p870676