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| hot_wheelz | jea, head_victim hi | 08:51 |
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| jea | Hi | 08:51 |
| hot_wheelz | any idea why additional drivers aren't being detected in 12.10 when they were in previous versions? | 08:52 |
| jea | what type of drivers are they? | 08:53 |
| hot_wheelz | NVIDIA Graphics | 08:56 |
| jea | is it an optimus system? | 08:57 |
| jea | If it is switchable, sometimes it is not detected | 08:58 |
| hot_wheelz | Dell XPS 1501X | 08:58 |
| jea | but if you should have the drivers, you can install them manually | 08:58 |
| jea | I know they just released a new version | 08:58 |
| hot_wheelz | i don't know what card it uses | 09:03 |
| jea | It is hard to know what drivers to suggest if you don't know which card | 09:04 |
| jea | and I can't find reference to that model in searches | 09:04 |
| hot_wheelz | give me a min | 09:07 |
| hot_wheelz | i know it's nvidia but can't find it. | 09:18 |
| jea | ok | 09:19 |
| jea | if it definitely is nvidia, you can install the drivers still | 09:19 |
| jea | as per this http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/11/new-nvidia-driver-doubles-performance-on-linux | 09:21 |
| jea | you should be able to download the nice new drivers from geforce.com | 09:21 |
| hot_wheelz | you still need to know the chipset | 09:23 |
| jea | it is normally the same driver for all chipsets, if it a relatively recent one | 09:23 |
| jea | going back to the 6xxx series, even | 09:23 |
| jea | I will be back a bit later | 09:24 |
| head_victim | They've moved where the "additional drivers" are. They're now in the Update manager | 09:24 |
| hot_wheelz | i know that | 09:24 |
| head_victim | Ok just checking, that caught me out entirely when I upgraded | 09:25 |
| hot_wheelz | ok | 09:25 |
| hot_wheelz | thanks mate | 09:25 |
| head_victim | If it's not showing up there, more likely than not it's no longer considered current and moved to legacy support | 09:25 |
| hot_wheelz | on nvidia | 09:26 |
| head_victim | Not really sure to be honest, do you have a model number of the video card? | 09:27 |
| head_victim | The laptop model number is too generic | 09:27 |
| hot_wheelz | i thought it was like a 640m but that didn't show up as being in dells | 09:28 |
| head_victim | So it's a fairly new laptop then? All the 1501's I googled before were pretty old | 09:29 |
| hot_wheelz | it's 1501x | 09:30 |
| hot_wheelz | XPS | 09:30 |
| head_victim | Yeah sorry, they can release so many different combinations under the same generic model number it's impossible to tell what it is off that alone | 09:30 |
| hot_wheelz | yeah i know what you mean | 09:31 |
| head_victim | In a terminal if you type "lspci | grep VGA" it should show more information | 09:31 |
| hot_wheelz | better i dea | 09:31 |
| hot_wheelz | i have the same laptop running windows aswell\ | 09:32 |
| hot_wheelz | same spec | 09:32 |
| hot_wheelz | head_victim, | 09:38 |
| hot_wheelz | GT420M | 09:39 |
| head_victim | Ah, my suggestion then is to follow the instructions in the link jea posted above, he was spot on | 09:43 |
| head_victim | No idea why they're not showing up but the switchable video cards are notoriously poor when it comes to auto detect | 09:43 |
| hot_wheelz | the thing is they used to something changed that is causing them not be flagged would you agree | 09:46 |
| head_victim | Could be anything though, I would have no idea where to even begin to start looking. | 09:47 |
| head_victim | If you're interested I'd ask on the forums or ask ubuntu for an answer | 09:47 |
| head_victim | That sort of informatino would require detailed knowledge of drivers beyond your average user. I don't even know how they're detected. | 09:48 |
| hot_wheelz | ok thanks guys | 09:48 |
| head_victim | No worries, sorry we couldn't answer but hopefully it will at least work. | 09:49 |
| head_victim | I'll be back later I'm heading afk for a while | 09:49 |
| hot_wheelz | ok | 09:49 |
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