GTX 660M nvidia Driver

**technofreak08** · November 16th, 2012

Hello guys.

Hopefully someone knows a bit about the nvidia drivers. I am trying to install the drivers on a Lenovo Y580 that has a GTX 660M, running 12.04 64 bit. Everything I have tried results in the nvidia settings saying that "you do not appear to be using the nvidia x driver." I have downloaded the driver directly from nvidia and installed it, and I have done the following also.

Code:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

I have ran the

Code:

nvidia-xconfig

but that does absolutely nothing, still results in the settings saying that I am not using the nvidia x driver. Also my resolution is stuck on 640x480 with the drivers installed. It goes back to the native 1920x1080 after I uninstall them.

I have also tried out the bumblebee drivers... and they didn't work. Though that was something else entirely. I know there are a lot of threads out there with this kind of problem, but I just have not been able to come across anything that helps.
Any suggestions or help any has to offer I greatly appreciate.

The driver that I have tried using is the 304.64 driver. The latest stable one.

Thanks

**ubuntoobu** · November 30th, 2012

Not that it helps but I also have a y580 laptop with the same nVidia card and I've also done the exact same things you've mentioned without any luck.

I'm fresh out of options but if I ever do figure this out I'll post back and let you know.

Good luck.

**gnusci** · November 30th, 2012

What about the NVidia drivers?

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-d...59-driver.html

**Yellow Pasque** · November 30th, 2012

It looks like Lenovo Y580 is an Optimus/hybrid system, so you'll need to install the nvidia drivers through bumblebee (installing them directly won't work). What happened when you tried to use bumblebee?

**ubuntoobu** · December 2nd, 2012

Re: Bumblebee ...

Followed the instructions in this thread...

http://askubuntu.com/questions/18010...an-nvidia-card

...and the following happened...

Code:

chris@y580:~$ sudo bumblebeed restart
FATAL: Error inserting bbswitch (/lib/modules/3.2.0-33-generic/updates/dkms/bbswitch.ko): No such device
[  391.369245] [ERROR]Module bbswitch could not be loaded (timeout?)
[  391.369339] [WARN]No switching method available. The dedicated card will always be on.
[  391.371361] [ERROR]Daemon already running, pid 8477

...then...

Code:

chris@y580:~$ optirun glxgears
[  402.325875] [ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: [XORG] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module. Please see the

[  402.325948] [ERROR]Aborting because fallback start is disabled.