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wpswart006

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So I have a Laptop with a GT540M Gfx card.

My problem is that, no matter what I try, I cannot get the Nvidia card to do anything. I have tried various online solutions to seemingly common problems, but to no avail.

If needed I could post the error's I get, and what I've tried to fix it, but before I venture into the technical, I'd like to hear your opinions on the matter.

I call it technical because I am fairly new to the whole Linux enviroment. Decided to install it a week ago, and have been struggeling ever since.

So my main problem is this : Can't get Bumblebee to run, my Nvidia card is never used. I am too new to the enviromnet to venture into the technical on my own.

I'm using Ubunto 12.10.

Any ideas?
 
wpswart006 said:
Thanks! If you had to recommend a version to switch to, would it be the newer one or not? Also, if not, why not?
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That's entirely up to you. 12.04 is a Long Term Support (LTS) release. 13.10 is still under development, the beta release is only on September 5.
Although 13.10 is quite usable, there will be bugs, and you will be downloading lots of updates between now and its final release on October 17.
 
Manjaro (based on Arch) will do this out of the box for you if I'm not mistaken or you might just have to run a single command.
 
Ok I'm back, I've installed 12.04.3 since I've last visited this page. It's been running quite nicely since then, but this afternoon I decided to install steam.

Steam doesn't want to run because of some missing x64 libraries, so I run a command I found online in hopes of this fixing it. Steam ran and wanted to update, but due to some connectivity issues I restarted the computer.

Boom, no gui, it loads straight to terminal. When trying to manually start Compiz I get : " Fatal: Couldn't open display ".
I will try to find the command I ran, but in the meanwhile, any ideas?
 
Code: 
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE

yields:

Code: 
[   17.373]  (II)  Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
[   18.666]  (EE) Failed to load module "modesetting" (module does not exist, 0)
[   18.666]  (EE) Failed to load module "intel" (module does not exist, 0)
[   18.666]  (EE) Failed to load module "vesa" (module does not exist, 0)
[   18.666]  (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)
[   18.666]  (EE) Failed to load module "modesetting" (module does not exist, 0)
[   18.698]  (EE) No devices detected.
 
Have you installed the nvidia drivers?
Code: 
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

Restart PC:
Code: 
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bumblebee/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install bumblebee bumblebee-nvidia linux-headers-generic
 
I have, do you think reinstalling it would help? Also what should packages should I purge before installing it again?
 
If you have done this and X still wont start, do this:
Code: 
sudo nvidia-xconfig
Restart and it should be working now.
 
I did as you said, but after restoring the backup of nvidia-xconfig, still the same problem.

What next?
:confused:
 
wpswart006 said:
Steam doesn't want to run because of some missing x64 libraries, so I run a command I found online in hopes of this fixing it. Steam ran and wanted to update, but due to some connectivity issues I restarted the computer.
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Link or paste a copy of the script here please?
 
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