NVIDIA Laptop Drivers

geon106 · 27 Sep 2012 at 17:47

I've brought a cheap laptop which i'm dual booting Windows 8 RP and Ubuntu 12.04 Linux.

Most of the drivers with only a few excemptions have installed fine but it hasn't allowed me to use the built in GT540M graphics card.

The option to install additional prorprietry drivers didn't show up and under Additional Drivers nothing shows.

I think it may be because the laptop uses the onboard Intel HD 3000 card on the desktop but when requested will use the 1GB 540M card.

I've downloaded NVIDIA drivers etc but still no luck.

Any help would be appreciated

OhEsEcks · 27 Sep 2012 at 17:56

Does the laptop use Optimus graphics switching?

geon106 · 27 Sep 2012 at 17:58

OhEsEcks said:
Does the laptop use Optimus graphics switching?

I'm honestly not sure. It didn't come with a manual. It just has the 2 cards but in Windows only certain applications in the NVIDIA control panel turn the NVIDIA chipset on

So i'm guessing chance are it does?

OhEsEcks · 27 Sep 2012 at 18:03

geon106 said:
I'm honestly not sure. It didn't come with a manual. It just has the 2 cards but in Windows only certain applications in the NVIDIA control panel turn the NVIDIA chipset on

So i'm guessing chance are it does?

Yeah, sounds like it. As far as I know, the Linux drivers for the switch tech are still pretty basic and buggy. But this is what you should be looking for;

http://bumblebee-project.org/

As far as I know, the latest official Linux Nvidia 304.51 drivers still don't have Optimus support.

geon106 · 27 Sep 2012 at 18:10

OhEsEcks said:
Yeah, sounds like it. As far as I know, the Linux drivers for the switch tech are still pretty basic and buggy. But this is what you should be looking for;

http://bumblebee-project.org/

As far as I know, the latest official Linux Nvidia 304.51 drivers still don't have Optimus support.

Thank you