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Rasmus Mathiesen
Asked: 2015-09-17 11:51:56 +0800 CST

GT 310M Graphics drivers for Ubuntu 15.04

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I have unsuccessfully tried to get X-server working with my laptop. After this didn't work I tried this older post from a person with same laptop model as me (Samsung q330) Can't use Nvidia GeForce 310m in Ubuntu 13.04

Unfortunatly when I run the optirun glxgears -info I get this:

[  504.481883] [ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: Could not load GPU driver [  504.482007] [ERROR]Aborting because fallback start is disabled.

I am at an dead end. Unless someone can bring the "magical solution" I have to make due with the integrated i3 Graphics.

Edit: Output of lspci -k | grep -EA2 'VGA|3D' as requested by Pilot6

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device c557

Kernel driver in use: i915
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218M [GeForce 310M] (rev ff)
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
Subsystem: Wistron NeWeb Corp. Device 051a

Edit 2: Output from sudo prime-select nvidia &

Info: the current alternatives in use are: ['mesa', 'mesa']
Info: selecting nvidia-346 for the nvidia profile
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/nvidia-346/ld.so.conf to provide /etc/ld.so.conf.d/x86_64-linux-gnu_GL.conf (x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf) in manual mode
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/nvidia-346/alt_ld.so.conf to provide /etc/ld.so.conf.d/i386-linux-gnu_GL.conf (i386-linux-gnu_gl_conf) in manual mode

Output from sudo prime-select nvidea

Info: the current alternatives in use are: ['nvidia-346', 'nvidia-346']
Info: selecting nvidia-346-prime for the intel profile
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/nvidia-346-prime/ld.so.conf to provide /etc/ld.so.conf.d/x86_64-linux-gnu_GL.conf (x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf) in manual mode
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/nvidia-346-prime/alt_ld.so.conf to provide /etc/ld.so.conf.d/i386-linux-gnu_GL.conf (i386-linux-gnu_gl_conf) in manual mode
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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Run in terminal

    sudo apt-get purge bumblebee nvidia*
sudo apt-get install nvidia-340 nvidia-prime

    and reboot.

    Bumblebee does not work well in 15.04. You can switch the adapters by nvidia-prime.

    Switching adapters is done by

    sudo prime-select nvidia

    or

    sudo prime-select intel
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