nvidia-driver fails to load gui
Shawn Webb
lattera at gmail.com
Wed Dec 10 16:17:55 UTC 2014
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Henry Hu <henry.hu.sh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Shawn Webb <lattera at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey All,
>>
>> More new laptop woes. The good-ish news is that the VESA driver works, but
>> x11/nvidia-driver doesn't. I'm on a Lenovo Y50-70. When I run `startx`, it
>> appears that xorg switches to a new vty, but doesn't actually bring up the
>> UI. I see a new console (as in vty) with a cursor at the top left corner.
>>
>> xorg.conf is pasted here: http://ix.io/1Dr
>> Xorg.0.log is pasted here: http://ix.io/1Dq
>>
>> I'll just use the VESA driver for now, but it'd be nice to be able to hook
>> the laptop up to a second monitor or a projector, which I can't do with
>> the
>> VESA driver.
>>
>
> Is it an optimus laptop? Have you tried uninstalling nvidia driver and try
> the intel driver?
>
It's a Lenovo Y50-70, which is running Intel Haswell, so the intel driver
won't work.
Thanks,
Shawn
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