Hi all,
I installed linux mint 14. I have an Acer Aspire 5755G with a nVidia GeForce GT 540M. I tried to install manually the linux drivers but the console said that the video card wasn't detected, infact typing
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what is ubuntu-x-swat? and what should I do for add it?
However I installed nvidia drivers (downloaded from the nvidia's official site), even if it said that drivers don't work. Not a good idea: my resolution was 640x480. I correct it editing xorg-conf like this:
Ema0404 wrote:what is ubuntu-x-swat? and what should I do for add it?
it is useless in the gpu configuration you have.
Ema0404 wrote: I correct it editing xorg-conf like this:
this was a smart trick but i believe that it didn't addressed the main issue
Ema0404 wrote:GLX Renderer: N/A GLX Version: N/A Direct Rendering: N/A
< this one: according to this output you have no direct rendering (no 3d acceleration) furthermore you can't use the nvidia card in a per-app basis like you could with bumblebee https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bumblebee
(now a warning note: bumblebee doesn't like to be installed when it detects traces of other nvidia drivers installations; it will fail)
I have already installed bumblebee but it doesn't work. Infact when I tried to configure nvidia settings with "optirun" the program didn't see nvidia card. Now, it doesn't like nvidia drivers (maybe). This is the output
user@Orion ~ $ nvidia-smi
NVIDIA: could not open the device file /dev/nvidiactl (No such file or directory).
NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with NVIDIA driver. Make sure that latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.