(24th January 2017, 16:43)kdemeoz Wrote: Gosh Rocky, how do you & Pliny & leszek & AJSlye etc, know all this amazing stuff? I feel sooooooo inadequate! Thank you again.
OK, i see your logic re my Network Manager, but what about the post-repair failure of KSysGuard? Was that just icing on my cake given how wonderful a day it was?
This is from my Lappy:
Code:XPS-L501X:~$ lspci -vnnn | perl -lne 'print if /^\d+\:.+(\[\S+\:\S+\])/' | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0046] (rev 18) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GF108M [GeForce GT 420M] [10de:0df1] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
So, ain't i just the lucky lady; i have that "[VGA controller] at the end" not once but twice. Bonus!!
For my final naive question [for now], the name "Optimus" does not appear even once in all that code i pasted above, & you pasted above, so what bright spark decided to call their product "Optimus"? I think they need a new marketing manager...
Hi kdemeoz,
So you indeed HAVE Optimus
It is Nvidia's name for their mobile GPU technology that can turn the GPU on or off in laptops, always paired up with an integrated GPU. However, I'm quite puzzled about that "VGA Controller" part being in both - that's strange. Anyway I see you have quite an old CPU with an old intel chip (pre-Sandy Bridge). So using the Nvidia card is probably your only option, since that intel integrated GPU is quite slow. Since you have Optimus and want to use the Nvidia proprietary driver, you MUST have Nvidia-prime installed. In order to properly use the Nvidia card, open the console and execute this:Code:
sudo prime-select nvidiaIt will properly select the nvidia card.
As for the KSysGuard, from my perspective, it's a completely isolated case, maybe your laptop crashed while it was running and the config in your home dir remained corrupted or something - I wouldn't relate it to the Nvidia stuff in any way.