Nvidia G210M onboard ASUS UL80V

[dakilla]

the problem is the hybrid-graphic card.

you only got one screen connector and 2 graphic cards, how did they solve this? by using a multiplexer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplexer

so when you have sucessfully installed nvidia drivers on your hybrid laptop, you shuld have a blank screen, because nothing is connected to the nvidia graphic card. you will manually have to switch this. this is a feature not supported by Nvidia, Nvidia do not even support new drivers för windows on hybrid laptops, so all new drivers will have to go through asus.

if you look at nvidia driver page, at the bottom of any driver page, there are a text about "no support for hybrid laptops".

there are stuff in the works for linux, hybrid ATI cards are already supported. if you want to know more, take a look at this page: http://airlied.livejournal.com/

[Nidwow]

the problem is the hybrid-graphic card.

you only got one screen connector and 2 graphic cards, how did they solve this? by using a multiplexer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplexer

so when you have sucessfully installed nvidia drivers on your hybrid laptop, you shuld have a blank screen, because nothing is connected to the nvidia graphic card. you will manually have to switch this. this is a feature not supported by Nvidia, Nvidia do not even support new drivers för windows on hybrid laptops, so all new drivers will have to go through asus.

if you look at nvidia driver page, at the bottom of any driver page, there are a text about "no support for hybrid laptops".

there are stuff in the works for linux, hybrid ATI cards are already supported. if you want to know more, take a look at this page: http://airlied.livejournal.com/

So how did it got connected under Windows 7? Unable to use G210M, this stinks

Noone is to blame but myself, I should have reserach this before. Although when I bought this laptop I wasn't thinking of trying Linux just because I've heard that Linux is much better than Windows so I gave it a try.

When people are saying Linux is Better than Windows 7. They are wrong at least from my point of view.

I guess back to Windows 7 again and take it like a man

[dakilla]

ok this is so dame simple, have been locking for a solution for months.

this is how you get g210m to work on ubuntu 9.10 / 10.04.

1. download and install nvidia drivers. (i have only tested the ones in the repos)

2. make sure you got an Xorg.conf that is correct. ( if not, run nvidia-xconfig )

3. reboot into bios (press delete while booting)

4. change the SATA option in the bios from enhanced to compatibility. ( yea, this makes sense? NOT! )

5. boot into linux and smile!

Anyone more then me who want to hit the people who wrote the bios?
running the latest bios. ends with 10.

[dressanderc]

ok this is so dame simple, have been locking for a solution for months.

this is how you get g210m to work on ubuntu 9.10 / 10.04.

1. download and install nvidia drivers. (i have only tested the ones in the repos)

2. make sure you got an Xorg.conf that is correct. ( if not, run nvidia-xconfig )

3. reboot into bios (press delete while booting)

4. change the SATA option in the bios from enhanced to compatibility. ( yea, this makes sense? NOT! )

5. boot into linux and smile!

Anyone more then me who want to hit the people who wrote the bios?
running the latest bios. ends with 10.

Wow, that works! I can confirm, i'm running 10.04 on a Asus UL50VT. Thank you so much!

[Radium3D]

Switching SATA to compatibility mode worked for me too. Running Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit dual booted with Windows 7. I doubt ASUS will ever fix this.

One question - In Windows 7 after rebooting it installs IDE drivers. Is the hard drive still running at SATA speeds, or will this slow down the hard drive?

[Nidwow]

2. make sure you got an Xorg.conf that is correct. ( if not, run nvidia-xconfig )

So, what is the correct Xorg.conf should look like? Mind sharing what inside it?

Thanks,

[dakilla]

this is how mine looks. 10.04 on ul30vt

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder58) Thu Apr 22 20:35:23 PDT 2010

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

[Nidwow]

I never did do anything. Just changed the BIOS SATA setting to compatibility.

Fired up 10.04 installation, got the recommended drive from repos = DONE!

Nvidia X Server settings is showing up on system>administrator menu as well.

lspci |grep VGA is showing NVIDIA card only no more showing two video cards.

ASUS BIOS used to have a feature to turn off Intel card but the latest BIOS that feature has been removed. Now I am wonder if somehow the person that wrote the BIOS got mixed up. SATA Enhanced to Compatibility is actually Intel card ON to OFF

[rlogan]

I had a laptop with G210M running beautifully under Karmic on the 190.42 driver but with Lucid it now has a issue again by the looks of it.

If you are still using Karmic and want to try it give this a shot.

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/install-nv...epidhardy.html

It worked for us just fine!

Hope it helps

Cheers

Richard

[bander013]

ok this is so dame simple, have been locking for a solution for months.

...

4. change the SATA option in the bios from enhanced to compatibility. ( yea, this makes sense? NOT! )

...

Anyone more then me who want to hit the people who wrote the bios?
running the latest bios. ends with 10.

Man, you are the bloody wizard! X)
How do you ever thought about that possibility??

Asus UL30VT with gentoo, running fine.
I only had to include pata_iix into kernel modules (my kernel was without IDE support).
Best way to find out which module you need - run ubuntu LiveCD and look at Administration=>Disk Manager. There described which module your storage have.
Than add it in:

    -> Device Drivers
      -> Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers (ATA [=y])
           -> ATA SFF support (ATA_SFF [=y])

In other case you will catch a kernel panic