Graphical card nvidia ? [Solved]

[jolato]

Sabayon 9 KDE 64b with Nivdia 9600GM on Asus N55. In other distros like Suse or Mint you have this message warning you that nvidia proprietary drivers are available or at least there is some place where you can install.

Where exactly should I look for this option under Sabayon 9 ?

[Stupot]

Sabayon has the proprietary stuff as a part of the standard install. You should already be running with proprietary drivers.

as root:

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#eselect opengl list

if nvidia is selected, you're using the proprietary drivers.

[jolato]

I have this:

[1] ati
[2] xorg-x11 *

[Stupot]

Interesting.

Have a go installing the drivers.

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#equo install nvidia-drivers

That will install the proprietary nvidia drivers. Then do the eselect to make sure nvidia is selected.

If it isn't:

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#eselect opengl set nvidia

Reboot. Enjoy.

[sabayonino]

I have this:

[1] ati
[2] xorg-x11 *

uhm ... very strange.

you can install nvidia proprietary drivers :

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# equo install nvidia-drivers

Set OpenGL

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# eselect opengl set nvidia

set "Driver" option in /etc/X11/xorg.conf

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[...]Section "Device"

    Identifier  "SabayonVga1"
    Driver      "nvidia"
[...]

save and exit.

reboot

PS :
Check your VGA card

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# lspci | grep VGA

[jolato]

Black screen, went to single user mode to restore xorg.conf.bak but read-only fs.
However mount says /dev/sda6 on / ext 4 [rw, ...] ?

[sabayonino]

Black screen, went to single user mode to restore xorg.conf.bak but read-only fs.
However mount says /dev/sda6 on / ext 4 [rw, ...] ?

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# mount -o remount,rw /dev/sda6 

[jolato]

ok, thanks; by the way it's a GT555 card, not a 9600GM

[jolato]

# eselect opengl list
Available OpenGL implementations:
[1] ati
[2] nvidia *
[3] xorg-x11

# lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF106 [GeForce GT 555M] (rev a1)

I think its solved