[elrepo] which nvidia package

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On October 23, 2017 7:19:29 PM GMT+03:00, Stuart Levy <stuartnlevy at gmail.com> wrote:
>Is there advice for things to try when a chip which is nominally
>supported (my laptop has a GTX 1050 Mobile) isn't working?   In
>particular, the driver installs without trouble, the kernel module
>loads
>without anyobvious error report in dmesg, but the X server gives an
>(EE)
>No devices detected error.    The nouveau module is blacklisted and
>indeed isn't loaded.   I'm unsure what else to check.  
>
>I'm actually fairly happy with run-of-the-mill opengl performance on
>this laptop even without using the nvidia chip, but it would be nice to
>see how power consumption compares with the intel graphics, and to run
>more demanding stuff.   (The other nice thing about using just the
>intel
>graphics without even nouveau is that "systemctl hibernate" works.)  
>Still I'd like to give the nvidia driver a try.
>
If you have both Intel and Nvidia graphics, you will probably need to use the optimus driver as well.

Manuel




>On 10/23/2017 07:48 AM, vychytraly . wrote:
>> install and run nvidia-detect utility and it will tell you :)
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 1:07 PM, Maarten <mailinglists at feedmebits.nl
>> <mailto:mailinglists at feedmebits.nl>> wrote:
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>>     I'm getting a new work laptop, but I just wanted to be sure
>elrepo
>>     has a package for the
>>     video driver. Which nvidia package contains the drivers for a
>>     NVIDIA Quadro M3000M. I opened all
>>     the available nvidia packages in elrepo to see which one would
>>     support a Quadro M3000M, but none
>>     of the package seem to list that card?
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