I wondered if anyone could help me to get my PC working with a new graphics card.
The background is this - I have a PC which I use as a multimedia PC including watching TV. It has an Intel Core i7 3770T chip with Intel’s HD Graphics 4000. This is on a motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z77MX-D3H LGA1155. I’m using OpenSuse 13.2.
I get screen tearing; it’s not terrible but I thought I’d fit a graphics card to try to solve this. So I’ve fitted a Geforce GT720 Nvidia card.
First I checked that the Nouveau drivers were installed and rebooted with the new card fitted. This resulted in a black screen.
Next I downloaded the Nvidia drivers and reboted. The boot failed with a message at the start “Conflict detected with stolen region…”.
After a bit of trial and error, I guessed that I have to disable the onboard graphics. I selected this option in the BIOS. This looks ok but I have no ethernet.
I’ve no idea what to try next. Any advice would be most welcome.
As stated the card is a Geforce GT720.
I installed the drivers using the “easy way” as described here: https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_drivers#Easy_way_to_get_NVIDIA_drivers
I never got to try the video after disabling the onboard graphics because all my data is on a NAS drive and I was unable to connect to it without ethernet. I could get around that and try it if it would help.
As stated the chip is Intel Core i7 3770T.
I’m afraid I don’t understand the “how connecting” question.
The screen problem I was hoping to solve is screen tearing. The only way I know to check that is by playing some sort of video but I can’t get any player to play.
The appearance of windows is different with the nvidia card - the writing is larger and the window buttons ‘minimise’ etc are miniscule.
The connection is hardwired and the connection program is Wicked.
Without the changes the output from lspci is:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev c4)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev c4)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Z77 Express Chipset LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 04)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR8151 v2.0 Gigabit Ethernet (rev c0)
After disabling internal graphics & with the nvidia card the output from lspci is
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor PCI Express Root Port (rev 09)
00:01.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor PCI Express Root Port (rev 09)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev c4)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev c4)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Z77 Express Chipset LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 04)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 1288 (rev a1)
02:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation Device 0e0f (rev a1)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR8151 v2.0 Gigabit Ethernet (rev c0)
I think you disabled the wrong item in bios, most bios’s let you chose the priorety of the graphic card, pcix/pci/internal instead of intermal/pci/pcix or auto, I think you disabled something else since you don’t have a network you should reread the bios manual as most bios’s are little different
Disabled the wrong item in bios - No, definitely not. I disabled the onboard graphics and only the onboard graphics. The output from lspci shows that it went.
I’ll try the zypper lr -d in a while, when time permits.