Appreciate you taking the time to read this question my friend.
Question:
Is it possible to install the proprietary nvidia driver on a Lenovo X201 laptop running an Intel Integrated Graphics Controller?
Supporting Information:
Lenovo X201 laptop:
sudo /sbin/lspci -nnk | grep VGA -A2
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0046] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:215a]
Kernel driver in use: i915
glxinfo | grep -i opengl
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ironlake Mobile x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.11
OpenGL extensions:
What I tried:
Downloaded the legacy driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86-71.86.15-pkg1.run and followed these instructions to install them:
SDB:NVIDIA the hard way - openSUSE
The nvidia.ko module compiles fine but it fails to insmod because no valid device is detected.
Do I need to rmmod a nouveau module prior to install the nvidia driver?
Cheers fellas.