Dear all,
I am using openSUSE 11.4 on a Lenovo Y570 laptop, which has switchable graphics (NVIDIA GeForce 555M 1GB graphics, Intel HD Graphics 3000). uname -a gives “2.6.37.6-0.7-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2011-07-21 02:17:24 +0200 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux”.
I’ve installed the latest NVIDIA drivers (version 285.05.09) using the guide on the OpenSUSE wiki (SDB:NVIDIA drivers - openSUSE) and the lnvhw script by jdmcdaniel3 (LNVHW - Load NVIDIA (driver the) Hard Way from runlevel 3 - Version 1.10 - Blogs - openSUSE Forums).
Even after all this, when I run NVIDIA X Server Settings, I’m met with the error “You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X driver. Please edit your X configuration file …”. I don’t attempt any such thing, since having an xorg.conf file prevents openSUSE from booting into graphics mode after the NVIDIA installation.
“modprobe -l | grep -i nvidia” gives several .ko files:
kernel/drivers/video/backlight/mbp_nvidia_bl.ko
kernel/drivers/video/nvidia/nvidiafb.ko
kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko
and “lsmod | grep -i nvidia” yields
nvidia 11709941 0
Can someone kindly suggest what I may try next, please?
There is no option in my BIOS to disable the integrated graphics, only a switch on the outside of the laptop (which seems to do something in Windows, but I’m not sure about openSUSE). I wonder if I shouldn’t expect the NVIDIA driver to work with my system just yet, and stick with the nouveau driver.
Thank you very much in advance for any advice you have!
