nvidia-driver fails to load gui

[Shawn Webb]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Henry Hu <henry.hu.sh at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Shawn Webb <lattera at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Henry Hu <henry.hu.sh at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Shawn Webb <lattera at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> 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?
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>> It's a Lenovo Y50-70, which is running Intel Haswell, so the intel driver
>> won't work.
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> I'm afrad that the nvidia card would not work either, at least for the
> internal LCD.
> Some optimus cards only provide 3d acceleration, and some are only
> connected to HDMI/DisplayPort outputs. Have you tried other outputs on the
> laptop?
>

I haven't tried the other outputs. My primary output will be the internal
LCD. What would it take to get it to work?