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I cannot get nVidia drivers to load on my Lenovo Y510p. It ends up in either of 2 different states, either nothing loads, and I'm stuck in runlevel3, or I get a super low resolution desktop. I have tried every tutorial I could find (though most say the same thing)

If anyone has any insight, please help me out. I'm out of options.

zwets
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Matthew Coleman
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  • Please add to your question an overview of the things you tried ("every tutorial I could find" provides no information to most readers, nor does the fact that most say the same thing). For instance, did you try the Nvidia drivers from their site? – zwets Oct 03 '13 at 12:42
  • @MatthewColeman - What nvidia-chipset is it exactly ? - in case of CUDA (sometimes with Optimus) then this solution here might help : http://askubuntu.com/questions/311151/how-can-i-install-nvidia-driver-gt-520-and-cuda-5-0-in-ubuntu13-04/311154#311154 – dschinn1001 Oct 04 '13 at 11:18
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    I know it's not a solution but I've been able to use the Nvidia drivers successfully on Ubuntu 13.10 with nvidia-319. Nevertheless my current setup is with Bumblebee. – Anton Petrov Nov 01 '13 at 16:34

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Your laptop has an Optimus NVIDIA card. I suspect that installing Bumblebee is the ticket.

1) Add the repository to get new nvidia drivers:

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

2) install the latest drivers:

sudo apt-get install nvidia-331 nvidia-settings-331

Install Bumblebee (as explained here)

1) Add the Bumblebee PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bumblebee/stable
sudo apt-get update

2) Install Bumblebee and its dependencies:

sudo apt-get install bumblebee bumblebee-nvidia virtualgl linux-headers-generic

Configure bumblebee to use your new driver:

1) Open the config file:

sudo gedit /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf

2) Change the Driver, KernelDriver, Librarypath, and XorgModulePath like so:

Driver=nvidia

KernelDriver=nvidia-331

LibraryPath=/usr/lib/nvidia-331:/usr/lib32/nvidia-331

XorgModulePath=/usr/lib/nvidia-331-updates/xorg,/usr/lib/xorg/modules

Restart.

EDIT2: Something to do if you can't use optirun (Bumblebee's method to invoke the Nvidia card)

Edit the bumblebee nvidia configuration:

sudo gedit /etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia

Delete the "#" in front of "BusID ... "

EDIT: If it still doesn't work

You might need to change the parameters passed to the kernel. To test if this is the solution:

  1. When you get to grub, select Linux (but don't hit enter.)

  2. hit"e" on the keyboard

  3. add "acpi_osi=Linux" to the end of the line that begins with "linux /boot/ ..."

  4. Press F10 to boot.

If this works, you can make the change permanent by editing /etc/default/grub

  1. type "sudo gedit /etc/default/grub"

  2. edit the line with "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT" so that it reads

    GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_osi=Linux"

  3. Save and quid gedit

  4. run "sudo update-grub"

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