Installing NVIDIA Driver on Lenovo ThinkPad T430

[Oliver Ruebenacker]

Hello,

I'm having some problems with using dual monitors on my Lenovo ThinkPad
T430 with Fedora 19 and KDE and want to see if installing the manufacturer
provided driver helps. This laptop has two GPUs:

- Intel Integrated HD Graphics
   - Discrete NVIDIA NVS 5400M (1 GB VRAM) with Optimus Technology

So I want to install the driver provided by NVIDIA for 64-bit Linux.

I tried
http://forums.if-not-true-then-false.com/index.php/topic,595.0.html

where step 5d caused some warning or error I did not understand and step
5e failed saying you can not install the kernel module except on top of a
driver configuration.

I have:

[oruebenacker@localhost ~]$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 3.11.6-200.fc19.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Oct 18
22:34:18 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Any advice? Thanks!

Best,
     Oliver

[Joe Zeff]

On 10/29/2013 01:24 PM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
> I tried
> http://forums.if-not-true-then-false.com/index.php/topic,595.0.html

You might want to check out this version: 
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204752 because it's 
possible that it either has an extra step you need, or a suggestion 
about what to do if you get that error.