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Dell Vostro Geforce GT 525M == Unknown Graphics Card

Asked by Corne Kooyman

Hi all,
Long story short. I've got a Dell Vostro 3750 with a Geforce GT 525m gfx chip.
Ubuntu won't pick up my drivers :(

I've tried everything from installing the latest drivers from Nvidia, to adding the PPA for the latest Xorg drivers.
I've created my xorg.conf file manually and used nvidia-xconfig to attempt to get it working.

I've uninstalled/reinstalled and followed at least 3 different ways of getting my gfx card up and running.
But it always leads to the same result.

I boots into a blank screen, I press alt-F1, type startx and get confronted with the following errors

"
Using config dir "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
EE No devices detected
"

"
Fatal server Error:
no screens found
"

When I run nvidia-settings the following is outputted :
"(nvidia-settings:1933): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap""
and the GUI throws an error informing me that it can't detect any drivers.

Linux works perfectly on this laptop (except for the tiny little issue)..
If someone can help me out, that would be great.

Please take note of the following :
I've installed (and attempted) to uninstall multiple drivers so if you give me a bunch of commands to enter, please inform me if I must run "pruge" or --uninstall

Thanks,
-C

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a; uname -a; dpkg -l | grep nvidia

When you installed the different drivers, I hope you removed the old ones first.

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Corne Kooyman (kooyman-corne) said : 		#2

Here is the output (and I'm 95% certain I removed the old ones first.. My linux knowledge is limited and I just followed support steps (and most of them gave the initial step of removing drivers)

  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: nVidia Corporation
       vendor: nVidia Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: a1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
       resources: irq:16 memory:f0000000-f0ffffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff memory:d0000000-d1ffffff ioport:4000(size=128) memory:f1000000-f107ffff
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 09
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
       resources: irq:52 memory:f1400000-f17fffff memory:e0000000-efffffff ioport:5000(size=64)
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
Codename: oneiric
Linux Ultras-Masjien 3.0.0-16-generic #28-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 27 17:44:39 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
ii nvidia-current 295.20-0ubuntu1~oneiric~xup1 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library
ii nvidia-current-updates 280.13-0ubuntu5 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library
ii nvidia-settings 295.20-0ubuntu1~oneiric~xup1 Tool of configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
ii nvidia-settings-updates 280.13-0ubuntu1 Tool of configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Oh jees it's not one of those stupid switchable GPU things is it?

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Corne Kooyman (kooyman-corne) said : 		#4

I have NO IDEA :D
How would I be able to find out?

The exact specs are : Vostro 3750, Silver, i7-2670QM (2.20GHz), 4096MB (1x4096) 1333MHz DDR; NVIDIA Geforce GT 525M with 1GB Graphics,

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Dell-Vostro-3750-Notebook.53260.0.html

Yes it does. Nvidia have catagorically said that this will not b supported on anything except Windows. There is a project called Ironhide which aims to fill the gap but I have never heard a single success story with this, nor do I have any advise other than to avoid it like Paris Hilton avoid talent.

Maybe others can advise but you may be stuck

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Corne Kooyman (kooyman-corne) said : 		#6

Crap!
At least I now know that it wasn't my lack of trying. (cause damn did I try!)

Thanks for the help.
Guess I have to dual boot after all :( (unless someone else has some info for me??)

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Corne Kooyman (kooyman-corne) said : 		#7

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.