I’ve been using various versions of linux on my computers for about 3 years now.
This is my first time with openSuse as I have heard that openSuse is better for laptops then ubuntu is. On this laptop, I had already installed ubuntu but decided I no longer liked ubuntu very much, but for no real reason. I encountered almost the exact same problem using both ubuntu and kubuntu, but I had more problems on top of the graphical problem - so I decided to give openSuse a try. I love it so far!
Anyway, to the point - I have an Nvidia GeForce GT330M. I have tried installing the drivers the “easy way” and the “hard way” and I have even used the script lnvhw, all to no avail.
What seems to happen is that, after I install the drivers (from runlevel 3, of course), as soon as I restart my computer it initially loads just fine. However, after the loading bar shows up, I get dropped into a console login (tty1), and tty7 & 8 show absolutely nothing, except a blinking cursor.
I have two graphic cards in my computer – an Intel HD card. This is loaded normally and, from “My Computer” it is the graphics card in use, as far as I can tell. The other, as I said, is the nVidia GeForce GT 330M.
I’m not much of a “power” user, so I’m not really sure where to start with finding the issue.
I doubt I provided enough information, so let me know what information I need to provide to get some help, please :).
According to my (‘second hand’) knowledge you have to deactivate the on-board intel graphic in the BIOS.
Nvidia Optimus (and probably [mostly?] any other hybrid graphics) does not (jet???) work with linux based systems.
I see that the most recent nVIDIA driver (260.19.36) is said to support the GT330M video card. Did you add the nomodeset kernel load option in your grub menu.lst file? Did you set the NO_KMS_IN_INITD=YES in your YaST System Configuration? What does your video do without the driver loaded and don’t forget you must uninstall it and/or update your kernel to a newer version to stop the driver from (trying to) loading?
I’ve tried adding the nomodeset, as per the instructions for the “hard way.” I added it right at the top of the file, was there any place I should add it exclusively?
Thank you!
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I have no idea how to do that. Is it possible via openSUSE, or is it only possible through bios? (see reply to next post below – I cannot disable via BIOS).
I do not see any option to disable either card in the BIOS. The cards are not hyrbid, I don’t think. But I’m not sure. I see no ability to disable the either of the cards unfortunately… can it be done via some system in openSUSE?
Also, in case it matters, I have changed (in /etc/X11/xorg.conf) under the device section, to sepcify Busid “PCI:01:00:00” but that had no effect, either.
Unfortunately, after looking around for information about hybrid graphics, I have found that it is impossible to use Optimus or any hybrid graphics solution.
I wish it weren’t the case, but I am being forced to use Windows for now
It should be disabled thru the bios. Some newer on-board card have feature to be automatically disabled as soon as you connect a new card, and I had a better luck to have this on my machine. I am just an ordinary user and my knowledge is very limited specially on the technical aspects of the hardware connections inside the computer. But as far as I know the thing to look in the bios is the vga connection to either pci or agp, or maybe someone can point you if there is a possibility to physically disconnect the on-board graphic card.
I certainly have not given up – just had my hopes dampened. I’m actually an indie game developer and develop small games (mainly for friends and myself) on windows. Obviously, I can run games with onboard intel graphics, but it is far from ideal.
I have a Gateway ID49C08u. I don’t have many options in the BIOS menu, in fact I can’t even find a way to turn on some of the security features that ubuntu told me I needed to activate whenever I logged in via command line – it seems to be that restricted.
