nVidia GT555 issues on Lenovo Y570...

[kad3t]

I've replaced my laptop from one having nVidia 8600GT to a Lenovo Y570 with nVidia GT555 and all hell broke lose. Basically after installing fresh Minty my system does not detect any additional drivers for the GPU and runs on secondary GPU, the Intel HD 3000 built in my i7 CPU. How can I get Mint to notice the discrete GPU and downlad/install drivers for it so I could use acceleration?

[remoulder]

Please copy/paste back here outputs in a terminal of

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inxi -S
lspci

[mank_in]

Check if you can disable integrated Graphic in BIOS.
If not, check this site (for NVIDIA hybrid graphic) : http://bumblebee-project.org/
Ubuntu PPA : ppa:bumblebee/stable
Good Luck

[kad3t]

Please copy/paste back here outputs in a terminal of

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inxi -S
lspci

The first command gives me this:

Sensors: Error: You do not have the sensors app installed.

And second:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200/2nd Generation Core Processor Family PCI Express Root Port (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 05)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev b5)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev b5)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev b5)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev b5)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 05)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation HM65 Express Chipset Family LPC Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 05)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 0deb (rev a1)
07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM57781 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 10)
08:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1000
09:00.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation uPD720200 USB 3.0 Host Controller (rev 04)
0a:00.0 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. SD/MMC Host Controller (rev 30)
0a:00.2 SD Host controller: JMicron Technology Corp. Standard SD Host Controller (rev 30)
0a:00.3 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. MS Host Controller (rev 30)
0a:00.4 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. xD Host Controller (rev 30)

[kad3t]

(...) Good Luck

I've followed that guide, installed bumblebeed with latest drivers but still get an error while trying to run daemon... will look more into it tomorrow after work and maybe add terminal listings here if I don't manage to get it to run. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction though.