Feedback on the Lenovo W701 and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Hello,

Could you let me know whether you used the "recommended" NVidia drivers, or the "version 173" ones?

If you tried the recommended and they failed to work, you might want to try the version 173 drivers.

I would very much appreciate if you could report on your results either way.

Thanks!

- Daniel

If you can provide the output of lspci, so we can see exactly which graphics card you have then we could look into this in more detail.

I tried the recommended drivers.

I have Synaptic loaded - what would help you figure this out - a list of what video drivers I have installed?

I can't afford to have the system not bootable.

I tried the recommended drivers.

I have Synaptic loaded - what would help you figure this out - a list of what video drivers I have installed?

I can't afford to have the system not bootable.

As I mentioned we need to see the output of lspci so that we can see which of these two graphics cards you have:

Video nVidia Corporation G92 [Quadro FX 3800M]
Video nVidia Corporation GT218 [NVS 3100M]

As I mentioned we need to see the output of lspci so that we can see which of these two graphics cards you have:

Video nVidia Corporation G92 [Quadro FX 3800M]
Video nVidia Corporation GT218 [NVS 3100M]

Set the wrong status

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DMI (rev 11)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 11)
00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Core Processor System Management Registers (rev 11)
00:08.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Core Processor Semaphore and Scratchpad Registers (rev 11)
00:08.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Core Processor System Control and Status Registers (rev 11)
00:08.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Core Processor Miscellaneous Registers (rev 11)
00:10.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link (rev 11)
00:10.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Routing and Protocol Registers (rev 11)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller (rev 06)
00:16.3 Serial controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset KT Controller (rev 06)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82577LM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 06)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 06)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 06)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev 06)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev 06)
00:1c.6 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 7 (rev 06)
00:1c.7 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 8 (rev 06)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a6)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.2 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 82801 SATA RAID Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller (rev 06)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G92 [Quadro FX 2800M] (rev a2)
02:00.0 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd Device e822 (rev 01)
02:00.3 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd Device e832 (rev 01)
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation WiFi Link 6000 Series (rev 35)
05:00.0 SATA controller: Device 1b4b:9123 (rev 11)
0d:00.0 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd Device e822 (rev 01)
0d:00.1 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Device e230 (rev 01)
16:00.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation Device 0194 (rev 03)
ff:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-Core Registers (rev 04)
ff:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 04)
ff:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 (rev 04)
ff:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 (rev 04)
ff:03.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller (rev 04)
ff:03.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Target Address Decoder (rev 04)
ff:03.4 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Test Registers (rev 04)
ff:04.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0 Control Registers (rev 04)
ff:04.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0 Address Registers (rev 04)
ff:04.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0 Rank Registers (rev 04)
ff:04.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0 Thermal Control Registers (rev 04)
ff:05.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 1 Control Registers (rev 04)
ff:05.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 1 Address Registers (rev 04)
ff:05.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 1 Rank Registers (rev 04)
ff:05.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 1 Thermal Control Registers (rev 04)

I can also supply a list of what's installed - just tell me the command to type.

OK. You don't have either of the cards we've certified this system with:

nVidia Corporation G92 [Quadro FX 2800M]

That is of course not saying the card shouldn't work.

ok - interesting, I didn't change the hardware - just bought the laptop with what Lenovo put in it. It was a recent purchase - about a month ago, so obviously, Lenovo has changed the video hardware.

would it help to see a list of what is installed - I didn't install the proprietary drivers as far as I know - but Synaptic sure looks like some of them got installed

Hi - more likely is that Lenovo just sell the same system with a number of different graphics cards. You can see that we certified systems with two different ones. It just happens that yours is not one of them. Sorry about that.

I would recommend you Google for something like 'nvidia 2800 on ubuntu 10.04' to find answers. This really isn't the best forum to find support for this issue.