Problems with a laptop under Ubuntu Linux 11.10

Question

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The other day I bought myself an MSI GE620DX-285XRU laptop as a replacement for an old HP, moreover, a very tasty filling was offered at a price of 26k rubles - Intel Core i5-2410M, NV GF 555M with 2 gigabytes of dedicated memory, 4 gigabytes of RAM and an LED matrix , a full-fledged keyboard with island-type keys, a dedicated numeric keypad, and even without an OS stuffed with nettles. In general, almost a dream of a Linuxoid (gloss, damn it, spoils the whole impression).

Well, I naturally rushed to install my favorite ubuntu 10.10, but then it turned out that there was no firewood for the wireless adapter in its kernel, after which I waved my hand, downloaded 11.10 and tried to install it. Here a failure awaited me - liveseed did not start (by the way, Fedora 16 also did not start, debian Linux mines also started, but with glitches). On reflection, I decided that I was used to dancing with tambourines over Ubuntu and began to install it. I bypassed the reluctance to start the installer by launching with the nomodeset flagafter which the installation went like clockwork. True, the installed system refused to start without this flag, but I set the parameter tightly in the hornbeam, so I didn’t care. It started to worry that the OS pushed VESA to display graphics, so the resolution of 1024x768 didn’t suit me at all, I got into the section of proprietary firewood, where the OS happily informed me that I didn’t need them. Then I realized that it was the faulty fifth generation of the new nvidia vidyuhi with a freaked optimus, from which there was no more sense than from a goat of milk. It was useful to prescribe turnips with nvidia test firewood (test for the canonical, of course, nvidia 285 already marked the branch as stable), loaded the freshest stable firewood and rebooted. The result is zero, then I got into NVIDIA Settings, where the software gave me an error, they say, you don't have activated hardware, so we will overwrite x.org. I agreed and rebooted again. Then this picture was waiting for me

I kind of didn’t understand what ubunta wanted to say to me, but just in case, I typed contrlaltf1, and the tty1 console got out. I didn’t do much shamanism, I just tried sudo lightdm restart (start), but zero emotions, after a couple of winks, the above picture appeared. What should I do?
I suspect that this Nvidia softina wrote something in the configurations such that the Xs lay down tightly. Is there a way out in this situation? Where to dig? If possible, then with commands. Liveseed and tty-console are in place and ready to fight.

Answer 1

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg as root

Answer 2

If from the very beginning there was a goal to use Linux on a laptop, it was worth considering this point when buying.

Answer 3

Some kind of crap ... ubuntu is installed on this machine out of the box.
- Version "Desktop"
- 10.10
- Update completely after installation
- Turn off. multiverse repository
- Update the list of packages
- "System->Administration->Device Drivers", see the new driver and install it
- Restart X
I do not suggest detours, because they do not roll for this particular case.

Answer 4

And the logs, what do the logs write?
grep -E "EE|WW" /var/log/Xorg.0.log will
clear things up.

Answer 5

Try deleting xorg.conf - after installing nvidia-current + nvidia-xconfig always helps (I also have a laptop with this stupid optimus).

Answer 6

Not everything is as good with the optimus as we would like ... Here are the knowledge that I have:
1) Nvidia displays the image through Intel, so turning off Intel will not work and, apparently, xorg cannot be run on the nvidia driver
2) There is an ironhide pre- oct (which continues the work bumblebee project). Ironhide has a set of settings profiles for different laptops (I don't know anything about profiles in more detail). After installing ironhide, you can run individual applications on Nvidia. The launch is carried out through an applet or from the command line: vglrun <command>
3) In the 3.1 kernel, it seems that work with the optimus has been improved, but on a clean kernel I could not start it, and ironhide did not get up on the 3.1 kernel
4) I’ve been tinkering with this for the last week and just yesterday I found out about vglrun, I got rather paradoxical results - glxgears shows 400FPS, and vglrun glxgears shows 200FPS ... In principle, vglrun has options that I haven’t played with at all ...

Answer 7

You can try to download the driver from the nvidia website and install it directly. sometimes helps. however, before this, an apt-get remove in a blizzard of nividia *
can also be registered for a while in horg.conf instead of nvidia, vesa