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**GreyGeek** · Oct 21, 2013, 06:38 PM

It depends on if your box has more than one video driver. My Acer V3-771G has an Intel HD4000 chip and a NVidia GeForce 650M chip. On many boxes with two chips one can sometimes use the BIOS to turn the primary chip off and activate the secondary chip. BUT, on boxes like mine the BIOS does NOT give a feature to disable the primary so that the secondary chip is automatically selected during boot up. So, in order to use the NVidia chip to run graphical programs using accelerated video I have to install Bumblebee and then add "optimus " in front of the app name in the command box of the menu for that app. HOWEVER, with recent upgrades of the nouveau driver I found that Stellarium, for example gives me the vsync rate, 60fps, which is faster than what optimus gave, which was about 55-58 fps. Minecraft gives the same fps. Before, they'd give less than 15 fps. So, I don't use Bumblebee any more. I also found out today that I don't even have to have the xserver-xorg-video-nouveau driver installed because the kernel has that driver built in, so when you blacklist nouveau it merely stops the xserver driver installled from the repository from loading. The driver supplied by the kernel driver nouveau.ko:

Code:

$ modprobe -l | grep nouveau
kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau.ko
$

How do you get the NVIDIA driver up and running on Kubuntu versions up to 13.04? (doubtful about 13.10) I was looking into that this afternoon and found this:

sudo apt-get --purge remove xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current
sudo update-alternatives --config gl_conf
#64 bit only!
#sudo update-alternatives --config x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf
sudo ldconfig
sudo update-initramfs -u
sudo nvidia-xconfig

The installation of the linux-headers will only work if you've used a kernel version that is in the repository. If you downloaded your kernel debs.
You'll want to be sure to install the gpg key from the ubuntu-x-swat PPA to verify the download of the nvidia-current driver. The site is here:
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/x-updates

For Saucy drivers you may have to use the edgers ppa, which means bleeding edge, because saucy is so new:
http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/ppa/xorg-edgers

**Bumpalot** · Oct 22, 2013, 05:54 AM

Thanks for your reply - it was a little over my head, but lets start at the initial code you suggested re "modprobe -l | grep nouveau"
I got the following error

Code:

bumpy@Bumpyputer2:~$ modprobe -l | grep nouveau
modprobe: invalid option -- 'l'
bumpy@Bumpyputer2:~$ modprobe -help
Usage:
        modprobe [options] [-i] [-b] modulename
        modprobe [options] -a [-i] [-b] modulename [modulename...]
        modprobe [options] -r [-i] modulename
        modprobe [options] -r -a [-i] modulename [modulename...]
        modprobe [options] -c
        modprobe [options] --dump-modversions filename

What would you suggest?
Re your comment "I'm supposed to respect my elders, but its getting harder and harder for me to find one now" - I'm pushing 80 in Feb, and am finding the same as you! Anyway I want to stick with whatever Saucy wants, and will have to live with it.
Look forward to your reply!

**GreyGeek** · Oct 22, 2013, 09:48 AM

Hey, someone older than me!!! My respects kind sir!

The "-l" in that command is a lower case "L", not a "1" (one). An easy way to do this is to highlight the command from the webpage and paste it into a Konsole window using Shft+Ctrl+V.

**Bumpalot** · Oct 22, 2013, 10:11 AM

Copied YOUR code

Code:

bumpy@Bumpyputer2:~$ modprobe -l | grep nouveau
modprobe: invalid option -- 'l'
bumpy@Bumpyputer2:~$

What now, Junior!

**andystmartin** · Oct 22, 2013, 10:16 AM

There is no '-l' option to modprobe. Perhaps this will work better:
lsmod | grep nouveau

**GreyGeek** · Oct 22, 2013, 10:51 AM

Originally posted by andystmartin View Post

There is no '-l' option to modprobe. Perhaps this will work better:
lsmod | grep nouveau

There is an "-l" option. It's purpose is to show which driver is being used by modprobe. For example, nouveau can be supplied by the xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package or from the kernel. This option will show where modprobe got its driver from.

From the modprobe man pages:

-l --list List all modules matching the given wildcard (or "*" if no wildcard is given). This option is provided for backwards compatibility
and may go away in future: see find(1) and basename(1) for a more flexible alternative.

That option is there on my 12.04.2 installation.

**Bumpalot** · Oct 22, 2013, 11:05 AM

Code:

bumpy@Bumpyputer2:~$ lsmod | grep nouveau
bumpy@Bumpyputer2:~$

Did nothing!

Rightly or wrongly I Downloaded & installed Oct 21 2013 9.45am https://launchpadlibrarian.net/14660...ucy2_amd64.deb

Am just going to reboot & will be back sap with the results, if any!

**Bumpalot** · Oct 22, 2013, 12:52 PM

I Downloaded & installed Oct 21 2013 9.45am https://launchpadlibrarian.net/14660...ucy2_amd64.deb

Rebooted – The KDE Crash Handler popped up- chose option: Restart Kwin – Nothing happened
continued-Report Bug -it tried to install debug symbols – Requesting installation of missing debug symbols packages – waited 5 mins -no results, cancelled it – clicked list of files
The packages containing debug information for the following application and libraries are missing:
/usr/bin/kwin
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtGui.so.4
/usr/lib/libkdeui.so.5
/usr/lib/fglrx/libGL.so.1
/usr/lib/kde4/libkdeinit/libkdeinit4_kwin.so
Clicked Next – Popup Message “This crash information is not useful enough, do you want to try to improve it? You will need to install some debugging packages.
bumpy@Bumpyputer2:~$ sudo apt-get install /usr/bin/kwin /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtGui.so.4 /usr/lib/libkdeui.so.5 /usr/lib/fglrx/libGL.so.1 /usr/lib/kde4/libkdeinit/libkdeinit4_kwin.so
[sudo] password for bumpy:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package /usr/bin
E: Unable to locate package /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
E: Unable to locate package /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
E: Unable to locate package /usr/lib
E: Unable to locate package /usr/lib/fglrx
E: Unable to locate package /usr/lib/kde4/libkdeinit
bumpy@Bumpyputer2:~$
Cancelled - then found underlying popup message behind Terminal: “Packages successfully installed.”
Rebooted
Not sure what to do now!
Just in case I will need it, did the following....
Downloaded GPUs:http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-d...304.108-driver
NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-319.60.run - This is what I used for kubuntu 12.04 previoously.
Need to know how to install a /run file if the previous method does not work.

Look forward to hearing from you - - maybe you are taking a Senior nap?

**claydoh** · Oct 22, 2013, 01:05 PM

Originally posted by Bumpalot View Post

Code:

bumpy@Bumpyputer2:~$ lsmod | grep nouveau
bumpy@Bumpyputer2:~$

Did nothing!

Rightly or wrongly I Downloaded & installed Oct 21 2013 9.45am https://launchpadlibrarian.net/14660...ucy2_amd64.deb

Am just going to reboot & will be back sap with the results, if any!

Why are you grabbing this? It is the amd control panel for the fglrx driver, nothing to do with nvidia whatsoever.

**Bumpalot** · Oct 22, 2013, 01:13 PM

I was just following GreyGeek 's advice. Check out my previous reply - boy am I going round in seemingly ever decreasing circles!
Maybe yiu can shed light on what youe think I can do to get NVidia up & running?
Your help will be much apprreciated.

**claydoh** · Oct 22, 2013, 01:36 PM

Not experienced any more with Nvidia, but to see what is installed, pop open muon and search for "nvidia", such as "nvidia-current" or "nvidia-304" or similar. I have seen jockey report incorrectly, but with ati/amd

What is your gpu? Were you using the closed source drivers in 13.04?

My suggestion, if there are no nvidia closed source drivers installed, is to try from the command line

Code:

sudo apt-get install nvidia-304

and spy for errors.

as to using grep to filter results from modprobe, use lsmod instead.

Code:

lsmod |grep nouveau

-l --list List all modules matching the given wildcard (or "*" if no
wildcard is given). This option is provided for backwards
compatibility and may go away in future: see find(1) and
basename(1) for a more flexible alternative.

Seems it has gone away

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