Ubuntu 13.04 - No graphic driver being used

**cubiks** · September 8th, 2013

Hello

I have a Lenovo Y 510p running Ubuntu 13.04. The system has both an integrated Intel Haswell graphic card and a dedicated nVidia one.

sudo lshw -c display
*-display UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: GK107M [GeForce GT 750M]
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
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:c0000000-c0ffffff memory:90000000-9fffffff memory:a0000000-a1ffffff ioport:4000(size=128) memory:a2000000-a207ffff
*-display UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Haswell Integrated Graphics Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 06
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: msi pm vga_controller cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:c2000000-c23fffff memory:b0000000-bfffffff ioport:5000(size=64)

I see none of them being used.
I installed the intel drivers using the intel-linux-graphics-installer, still the same.
I also tried installing the nVidia drivers but as I understand there are still issues in supporting the Optimus Drivers and it result was the unity env was not loading at all.

Without the graphic cards I have a constant 30% CPU utilization from compiz.

Any help is appreciated, thank you.

**bcschmerker** · September 8th, 2013

If you decide to use the nVIDIA® GK107M as primary for X, Unity, &c., you'll almost certainly need the Packages jockey-text, nvidia-current, and nvidia-settings; xserver-xorg-video-nouveau will not work with certain nVIDIA® GPU's. There may also be some BIOS/UEFI settings to make that I don't know about from the system description to date.

The jockey-text program is needed to properly configure the nVIDIA® drivers and settings applications for your GK107M.

**bcschmerker** · October 3rd, 2013

Update: I ran across a Thread describing a situation with hardware similar to yours: "Use ONLY nVidia discrete graphics on Optimus laptop N56VZ Ubuntu 13.04." The Bumblebee Project™ is supported at Launchpad™.

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bumblebee/stable
sudo apt-get update

**Bucky Ball** · October 3rd, 2013

Thread moved to Multimedia & Video.

**Yellow Pasque** · October 5th, 2013

The easiest way to do it would be to install 'buntu 13.10 and then install bumblebee package (which in the repos beginning with 13.10).

If using 13.04, I would install a 3.11 kernel and use xorg-edgers PPA ( https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa ) to get the intel GPU working. Next, I would add x-swat PPA to use nvidia-319 driver ( https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa)
And finally, I would install bumblebee from the repo: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bumblebee