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my lenovo g780 has a new motherboard

Started by vectoravtech, January 31, 2019, 12:32:32 PM

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vectoravtech

It's a combo mobo including an I7 cpu from china for $85 through Alibaba that a friend of mine installed. he suggested I remove the hd for shipping which I did. I dropped that arch distro because I couldnt understand anything and the inixi was a selection in the menu.

>I'm sticking with Sparky Linux Stable. <

I have tried a bunch of things to get the video installed, I know it should have bumblebee installed with intel and geforce; neither have worked with the new mobo. The last one was (on a fresh stable install) the sparky kernel then apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') nvidia-driver that I found in the forums (that rival posted) then did the update as a root user. I'm not sure what I need to provide but I have a hardware list from a previous distro. I also tried ddm lastly which did nothing even after I got the installed popup and rebooted.


even in ms windows after all the updates nothing worked. How can I get the bumblebee working in here? I'm extremely new and I would need commands. Thank you for your help.

paxmark1

Please post output of
lspci -vnn | grep '\''[030[02]\]'             ### Yes, you want the "tic" at the end. 
https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/wiki/Troubleshooting


I appreciate the inxi.  From Machine section Product :N/A   - interesting.   It might help to get the name of the board.   Not so much for here, but for searching elsewhere.   

Years back when I lurked in #debian -next I saw  a lot of hard work getting bumblebee hybrid GPU's up. Supposed to be a lot easier now.  First stop to look at would be

https://wiki.debian.org/Bumblebee

Looking at your previous distro - you should be familiar with

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bumblebee    ##   Remembering that some advice given is only specific to ArchLinux.  But their wiki is one of the best. 

If you do not find easy solutions - I would suggest either going with Arch LInux - since it does work.  My other suggestion would be to do a net-install  of debian testing with the non-free firmware, new one came out Jan 27.   If you succeed you can then add the Sparky ppas to /etc/atp/sourceslist.d/

You have a tricky motherboard probably.  You might need a distro that has more and varied unpaid experts - like Arch and Debian.  As above, you can always then add the Sparky ppa's to a Debian set up once you have it up and running.  I would suggest Arch Linux much more than the Arcol Linux derivative if you go that route.  I see you used nouuveau  in the Arch set up. 

In the end, you want this up and running.  The distro is less important. 



Search forum for "More info easier via inxi"    If requested -  no inxi, no help for you by  me.

vectoravtech

#2
I already tryed the suggestion at the bumblebee website to no avail, what else should I do? please ignore the inixi as i'm using Sparky Linux Stable, thanks, (btw I clicked something in the menu to get that pic when I was on arch which doesnt matter now because im excited Sparky Linux fixed my audio so music actually has bass which nothing else repaired 8) )

I'm not sure how to get the hardware info in Sparky. I still see the video tearing and I have faith that Sparky will revive this messed up lappy.

4k videos play fine, Looks great on the tv.

I need to try GLXGears. it works maybe I'm used to a high resolution screen.



paxmark1

Use aptus or terminal to install inxi  -                "sudo apt install inxi"     
Search for info about  inxi on forum here (or Arch or Debian etc. etc. etc.)  or type in terminal  "man inxi"


Scrape the output  from a terminal using  Ctl-Shift-C to copy output from a terminal
Ctl-C to message box, mark up with xml via the # button for code. 

Specifically

        lspci -vnn | grep '\''[030[02]\]'             ### Yes, you want the "tic" at the end. 

and
       inxi -x -G -r         ### extra   GPU   repositories.  or just do inxi -Fr    to send everything

What it looks like when wrapped as code via # button

.unison$ inxi -xGr
Graphics:  Card: Intel 4th Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller bus-ID: 00:02.0
           Display Server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: intel Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz
           GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Haswell GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 13.0.6 Direct Rendering: Yes
Repos:     Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list
           deb http://debian.mirror.rafal.ca/debian/ stretch main non-free contrib
           deb-src http://debian.mirror.rafal.ca/debian/ stretch main non-free contrib
           deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates main contrib non-free
           deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates main contrib non-free
           deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main contrib non-free
           Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spideroakone.list
           deb http://APT.spideroak.com/ubuntu-spideroak-hardy/ release restricted



Search forum for "More info easier via inxi"    If requested -  no inxi, no help for you by  me.

vectoravtech

lspci -vnn | grep '\''[030[02]\]'
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [8086:0166] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GF108M [GeForce GT 635M] [10de:0de3] (rev ff) (prog-if ff)

vectoravtech

GeForce GT 635M

I used lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor PCI Express Root Port (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev c4)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev c4)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation HM76 Express Chipset LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 04)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF108M [GeForce GT 635M] (rev a1)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR8162 Fast Ethernet (rev 10)
03:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)

paxmark1

If you can't use inxi then you will have to rely on others here to help you.
If you can't figure out the "#" button,    you will have to rely on others to help you.

If you are serious about linux - these are skill sets that I believe you  need to learn. 
If you go for help elsewhere these are skill sets they will ask you to use, also "pastebin"   over in irc. 

peace out. 
Search forum for "More info easier via inxi"    If requested -  no inxi, no help for you by  me.

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