Is there a driver for a NVIDIA GeForce GT525M?

Question

I'm planning to buy a new laptop : http://www.dell.com/us/p/xps-l502x/pd?oc=dndodq1&model_id=xps-l502x

In this laptop there is a 1024MB NVIDIA® GeForce® GT525M video card.

But when i looked on the nvidia site to download drivers they don't have any linux drivers for this card... http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us

Will i be able to use this video card in ubuntu?

G Simpson · Answer 1 · 2012-05-15T22:04:15.080

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http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-ia32-295.49-driver.html

I have 540M. I use Bumblebee for switching 540M*

edited May 15 '12 at 22:04

answered May 15 '12 at 21:00

G Simpson

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Reuben Swartz · Answer 2 · 2011-03-24T00:21:51.177

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Most likely but check here to make sure. http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/catalog

edited Mar 24 '11 at 00:21

answered Mar 24 '11 at 00:05

Reuben Swartz

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score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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There is no support for the Optimus based NVIDIA graphics in linux/ Ubuntu yet.
If you decide to go for an Optimus system laptop you are likely to be working with your integrated Intel graphics while in Ubuntu.

_{been there, done that -- I write this from a L502x 525M XPS running Natty :-)}

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

Community

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answered Apr 29 '11 at 19:57

nik

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered May 24 '11 at 23:10

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The support for Nvidia Optimus under Linux has improved a bit recently. Have a look at: http://launchpad.net/~hybrid-graphics-linux

Sadly, for this Dell laptop, we still haven't found out a way to switch off the card...

answered May 24 '11 at 23:10

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Nov 09 '11 at 02:13

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The diriver is now supported in Nvidia Website.

tey, I advice you to use bumblebee project that supports OPTIMUS for the Dell XPS L502X.

answered Nov 09 '11 at 02:13

Hanynowsky

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score 0 · Answer 6 · edited Sep 15 '12 at 13:02

I can confirm that the above solution by G Simpson works on my Samsung RC512 with NVIDIA GeForce GT525M. Thank you so much, I was almost ready to buy a new laptop. All 3D acceleration works! Desktop, Quake, Unreal, etc.

Bumblebee FTW

Did a sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bumblebee/stable

then a sudo apt-get update

then a sudo apt-get install bumblebee bumblebee-nvidia

After removing all other Nvidia software BTW.

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Mar 24 '11 at 10:33

I have look here ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/270.30/README/supportedchips.html where you can see all the supported videocards for the latest beta driver but the GT525M isn't listed.

We i be able to use this card with another driver?

Is there a driver for a NVIDIA GeForce GT525M?

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