On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 19:01 -0600, Charles Davis wrote: > On 5/14/11 6:56 PM, Butch Evans wrote: > > On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 16:42 -0700, James McKenzie wrote: > >> On 5/14/11 3:00 AM, Butch Evans wrote: > >>> On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 21:14 -0700, James McKenzie wrote: > >>>> This may be a video driver issue. AMD/ATI video cards are known to have > >>>> less the high quality drivers, lntel drivers are the worst an nVidia are > >>>> the best for Linux and Wine. > >>> I tried to install the nvidia drivers, but could not find the proper > >>> driver. > >> nVidia drivers do not work with Intel video systems > >>> > >>> > >>> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor > >>> Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) > >>> > >> This is definitely a Intel video. > > > > Yes. Here's what the Hardware Maintenance manual says: > > > > Graphic Memory Chip: > > * Intel HM55 integrated > > * nVidia N11M-GE1 with 512M DDR3 VRAM > > > > This has me a bit confused. I agree that the system is not "seeing" an > > nVidia card, but not sure why the HMM lists it. SIGH. > I get it. You've got one of those dual video card setups where the > system normally uses the integrated graphics, but (at least in theory) > pulls out the nVidia chip for heavy-duty stuff like games. > > Last I checked, this needed kernel support under Linux. You'll have to > ask your distro for help at this point. Thanks for the input. I now have a game plan to move forward. FWIW, when I ran Ubuntu live cd a few days ago, the specific issue I was having did not exist. Perhaps I'll just switch to Ubuntu, though I don't like the sound of that very much...thanks again! -- ******************************************************************** * Butch Evans * Professional Network Consultation* * http://www.butchevans.com/ * Network Engineering * * http://store.wispgear.net/ * Wired or Wireless Networks * * http://blog.butchevans.com/ * ImageStream, Mikrotik and MORE! * * NOTE MY NEW NUMBER: 702-537-0979 * ********************************************************************
