Ubuntu 12.04 + Nvidia

[Tom]

Anyone here have installed Nvidia drivers on latest Ubuntu, without getting this error?

"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."

If yes, then can you yell me how? I tryed crapload of things, but cant make it work.

Thanks in advance,

Tom

[Erik_JE]

Did you install the ones in the repo or the ones from nvidia.com ?

[lukeiamyourfather]

Is your graphics card supported by the drivers (not a really old or really new card)? Silly question but did you restart after installing the drivers?

[Tom]

Is your graphics card supported by the drivers (not a really old or really new card)? Silly question but did you restart after installing the drivers?

I have laptop with GeForce 520MX.

@Erik_JE I tryed installing drivers this way

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

and also installed ones from nvidia.com, maybe I did something wrong or didnt something necesary. And YES I resrted my PC.

EDIT:

I thought... so my laptop has 2 GPU's, one Intel and Nvidia,

maybe the reason why I cant find drivers at Addition Drivers menu, because it try's to find drivers for Intel gpu, not Nvidia.

Edited May 1, 2012 by Tom

[Erik_JE]

I have laptop with GeForce 520MX.

@Erik_JE I tryed installing drivers this way

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

and also installed ones from nvidia.com, maybe I did something wrong or didnt something necesary. And YES I resrted my PC.

EDIT:

I thought... so my laptop has 2 GPU's, one Intel and Nvidia,

maybe the reason why I cant find drivers at Addition Drivers menu, because it try's to find drivers for Intel gpu, not Nvidia.

There is no need at all to use x-swat unless you need a really recent version. It will probably only give you additional trouble.

Just use the ones in the regular repo and dont bother with the ones from nvidia.com. They work terrible in recent Ubuntu releases.

Also if you have dual nvidia/intel make sure you can deactivate intel in bios and only use nvidia. Otherwise you will have to deal with http://bumblebee-project.org/ to use nvidia graphics in ubuntu.

[Tom]

Erik_JE just brosed around google and found out that nvidia drivers dont work for laptops with Optimus tech... and Bumblebee is my only solution.

EDIT:

Tryed to install bumblebee, got this in terminal:

Package bumblebee is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'bumblebee' has no installation candidate
E: Unable to locate package bumblebee-nvidia

EDIT2:

its seems i will move to askubuntu

Edited May 1, 2012 by Tom

[Erik_JE]

Erik_JE just brosed around google and found out that nvidia drivers dont work for laptops with Optimus tech... and Bumblebee is my only solution.

EDIT:

Tryed to install bumblebee, got this in terminal:

Package bumblebee is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'bumblebee' has no installation candidate
E: Unable to locate package bumblebee-nvidia

EDIT2:

its seems i will move to askubuntu

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bumblebee#Installation

There are instructions for Ubuntu. Whole Optimus crap is such a huge clusterf**k tho it still makes me mad several years after they released it.

[lukeiamyourfather]

I have a ThinkPad T420 with Optimus graphics (Quadro NVS 4200M). To get the discreet graphics working in Linux I disabled Optimus in the BIOS. It had an option for discreet, integrated, or both and I used discreet. After that everything worked fine. Battery life in Windows is not as good as it used to be but not any worse than any laptop without Optimus in the first place.

[Tom]

I have Samsung NP300E5A-S01EE, wich dont have that option in BIOS.

I must say Optimus isnt that bad, i can browse internet/youtube + soundcloud in background and write documents for about 4 hours, what I think is quite acceptable time.

Thanks for helping guys, I play more around and see how things goes, if got it wprking I report how Houdini is working on it.

EDIT:

installed bumblebee, thanks to good guy funkeh http://askubuntu.com/questions/129475/problem-installing-bumblebee-on-ubuntu-12-04

downloading Houdini now.

Edited May 1, 2012 by Tom

[Tom]

So I open'ed terminal, executed this command:

optirun '/opt/hfs12.0.612/bin/houdini' 

Houdini's splash screen appeared, little succes smile appeared on my face, but then BOOOM:

fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":8"
      after 17 requests (17 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

By default Houdini's viewport is running at few frames per second.

Btw Blender worked, so this is more Houdini specific.

Edited May 1, 2012 by Tom

[Green-Man]

Yesterday I felt like this one from XKCD

But I've solved the problem after all. Hope it will help someone else in future:

I had the same problem with starting Houdini with optirun:

Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server

The solution is to set the KeepUnusedXServer parameter to true at /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf

From here:

https://wiki.archlin...x.php/Bumblebee