ElToro
March 18th, 2014, 09:55 PM
I have installed the latest Nvidia driver for my MSI GE70 laptop with a GeForce GTX 765M graphics card. Some games crash (intermittently), in particular Metro LL. Investigating the status of the driver, I get conflicting info:
sudo lshw -C Display gives:
*-display
description: 3D controller
product: GK106M [GeForce GTX 765M]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
resources: irq:16 memory:f6000000-f6ffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f0000000-f1ffffff ioport:e000(size=128) memory:f7000000-f707ffff
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: 4th Gen Core Processor 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 bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
resources: irq:45 memory:f7400000-f77fffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff ioport:f000(size=64)
However, the System Profiler and Benchmark gives:
Display
Resolution
1920x1080 pixels
Vendor
The X.Org Foundation
Version
1.15.0
Monitors
Monitor 0
1920x1080 pixels
Extensions
BIG-REQUESTS
Composite
DAMAGE
DOUBLE-BUFFER
DPMS
DRI2
DRI3
GLX
Generic Event Extension
MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
MIT-SHM
Present
RANDR
RECORD
RENDER
SECURITY
SGI-GLX
SHAPE
SYNC
X-Resource
XC-MISC
XFIXES
XFree86-DGA
XFree86-VidModeExtension
XINERAMA
XInputExtension
XKEYBOARD
XTEST
XVideo
OpenGL
Vendor
Unknown
Renderer
Unknown
Version
Unknown
Direct Rendering
No
Shouldn't the card show up under OpenGL, when it is otherwise correctly installed with the right driver? Any advice on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated :)
sudo lshw -C Display gives:
*-display
description: 3D controller
product: GK106M [GeForce GTX 765M]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
resources: irq:16 memory:f6000000-f6ffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f0000000-f1ffffff ioport:e000(size=128) memory:f7000000-f707ffff
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: 4th Gen Core Processor 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 bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
resources: irq:45 memory:f7400000-f77fffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff ioport:f000(size=64)
However, the System Profiler and Benchmark gives:
Display
Resolution
1920x1080 pixels
Vendor
The X.Org Foundation
Version
1.15.0
Monitors
Monitor 0
1920x1080 pixels
Extensions
BIG-REQUESTS
Composite
DAMAGE
DOUBLE-BUFFER
DPMS
DRI2
DRI3
GLX
Generic Event Extension
MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
MIT-SHM
Present
RANDR
RECORD
RENDER
SECURITY
SGI-GLX
SHAPE
SYNC
X-Resource
XC-MISC
XFIXES
XFree86-DGA
XFree86-VidModeExtension
XINERAMA
XInputExtension
XKEYBOARD
XTEST
XVideo
OpenGL
Vendor
Unknown
Renderer
Unknown
Version
Unknown
Direct Rendering
No
Shouldn't the card show up under OpenGL, when it is otherwise correctly installed with the right driver? Any advice on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated :)