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["Christopher M. Penalver" <christopher.m.penalver@xxxxxxxxx>]

Teo, as per http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/drivers an update to
your computer's buggy and outdated BIOS is available (2.21). If you
update to this following https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BIOSUpdate
does it change anything?

If it doesn't, could you please both specify what happened, and provide the output of the following terminal command:
sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date

For more on BIOS updates and linux, please see
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#Bug_reporting_etiquette
.

Please note your current BIOS is already in the Bug Description, so
posting this on the old BIOS would not be helpful. As well, you don't
have to create a new bug report.

Once the BIOS is updated, if the problem is still reproducible, and the
information above is provided, then please mark this report Status New.
Otherwise, please mark this as Invalid.

Thank you for your understanding.

** Tags added: bios-outdated-2.21

** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1353065

Title:
  NVidia GeForce 710M is not properly detected

Status in xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I installed Ubuntu 13.04 on a new laptop which has an NVidia GeForce
  710M and later upgraded it to Ubuntu 13.10 and finally 14.04.

  After almost a year, I'm astonished to find out that my NVidia card is
  not even being used. The Intel Graphics card built into the
  motherboard is being used instead.

  The "Additional Drivers" tab under Software & Updates shows what you can see in the attached screenshot:
  "NVIDIA Corporation: GeForce 710M
  This device is using an alternative driver"
  and the selected item in the list is
  "Using X.Org X server - Nouveau display driver from xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (open source)"

  I knew that means I'm not using the proprietary NVidia drivers, but
  isn't nouveau supposed to support NVidia?

  Here's the output of "glxinfo |grep OpenGL":
  OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center
  OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ivybridge Mobile 
  OpenGL core profile version string: 3.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 10.1.3
  OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 3.30
  OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
  OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
  OpenGL core profile extensions:
  OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 10.1.3
  OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
  OpenGL context flags: (none)
  OpenGL extensions:

  
  Is there a workaround?

  Also, I wonder whether it's safe to select NVidia's proprietary drivers in the Additional Drivers tab.
  I ask because once upon a time I tried to install them using "sudo apt-get install nvidia-something" and it screwed up Xorg completely.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.10-1ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-32.57-generic 3.13.11.4
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-32-generic x86_64
  .tmp.unity.support.test.0:
   
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
  Architecture: amd64
  CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
  CompositorRunning: compiz
  CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0'
  CompositorUnredirectFSW: true
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Tue Aug  5 21:22:53 2014
  DistUpgraded: 2014-05-24 19:43:23,984 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
  DistroCodename: trusty
  DistroVariant: ubuntu
  DkmsStatus: vboxhost, 4.3.14, 3.13.0-32-generic, x86_64: installed
  ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, if not too technical
  GraphicsCard:
   Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [8086:0166] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
     Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:0647]
   NVIDIA Corporation GF117M [GeForce 610M/710M/820M / GT 620M/625M/630M/720M] [10de:1140] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
     Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] GeForce 710M [1025:0691]
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-11 (298 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
  MachineType: Acer Aspire V3-571G
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-32-generic.efi.signed root=UUID=5830b30e-69e8-4bb4-8a2b-bc2b43c7414a ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-05-24 (73 days ago)
  dmi.bios.date: 10/15/2012
  dmi.bios.vendor: Acer
  dmi.bios.version: V2.07
  dmi.board.asset.tag: Type2 - Board Asset Tag
  dmi.board.name: VA50_HC_CR
  dmi.board.vendor: Acer
  dmi.board.version: Type2 - Board Version
  dmi.chassis.type: 10
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer
  dmi.chassis.version: V2.07
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAcer:bvrV2.07:bd10/15/2012:svnAcer:pnAspireV3-571G:pvrV2.07:rvnAcer:rnVA50_HC_CR:rvrType2-BoardVersion:cvnAcer:ct10:cvrV2.07:
  dmi.product.name: Aspire V3-571G
  dmi.product.version: V2.07
  dmi.sys.vendor: Acer
  version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.11.2+14.04.20140714-0ubuntu1
  version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
  version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.52-1
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 10.1.3-0ubuntu0.1
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
  version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 10.1.3-0ubuntu0.1
  version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2
  version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.8.2-1ubuntu2
  version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.3.0-1ubuntu3.1
  version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.910-0ubuntu1
  version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.10-1ubuntu2
  xserver.bootTime: Mon Aug  4 18:06:36 2014
  xserver.configfile: default
  xserver.errors:
   Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)
   Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)
   NOUVEAU(G0): [XvMC] Failed to initialize extension.
  xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
  xserver.outputs:
   product id                                9170 
   vendor                                     ACI
  xserver.version: 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2

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