On 24/12/2013 12:11, Michael Lueck wrote:
Greetings All,
Merry Christmas Eve as well!
I am building a new notebook system (Lenovo ThinkPad T540p with Intel
i5 CPU and Nvidia GeForce GT 730M) for a client requesting Linux as
the main OS, and "legacy" operating systems via VirtualBox.
[...]
BTW: I have not seen the binary graphics driver icon show up as
indicating there are drivers for this Nvidia GeForce GT 730M chip. Do
such get installed by default and there is no option not to... or is
this chip too new for Xubuntu 13.10 to have support for the chip?
Blessings,
I have Nvidia GeForce GT 740M here, and it works. The problem is that my
laptop uses Nvidia Optimus Technology, so there are 2 graphic cards, one
of which is an Intel onboard, and Ubuntu does not recognize this
technology out-of-box. So, it does not appear in additional drivers tab.
There is a bug report about this:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-properties/+bug/1126234
But you can install the nvidia driver, nvidia-319-updates works well
with this GT 730M card (or nvidia-331-updates in Trusty). You have to
install bumblebee too, this is the thing that switch between Intel and
Nvidia graphics. Here, i use Intel as default, and when i want to run
some game or video with nvidia card, i use primusrun or optirun in the
terminal. Take a look at this:
http://www.linux.org/threads/nvidia-optimus-on-linux.4415/
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