nvidia-experimental-310 does not install properly, causing compiz to not start

[mikey]

Compiz fails to load on Ubuntu 12.10 when using the latest NVidia drivers available from the package nvidia-experimental-310.

My Graphics card is a Gigabyte 8600 GTS Silent Pipe 3.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: compiz-core 1:0.9.8.4+bzr3407-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: compiz
Date: Sat Dec 1 12:52:44 2012
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: quantal
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus: nvidia-experimental-310, 310.14: added
GraphicsCard:
 NVIDIA Corporation G84 [GeForce 8600 GTS] [10de:0400] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device [1458:3448]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-30 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
MachineType: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. GA-MA770T-UD3
MarkForUpload: True
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-17-generic root=UUID=4e5596f5-a643-4f18-95c5-a99dfc294028 ro quiet splash
SourcePackage: compiz
UnitySupportTest:
 Error: command ['/usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test', '-p', '-f'] failed with exit code 5: Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
 Error: GLX is not available on the system
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 03/22/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
dmi.bios.version: F10
dmi.board.name: GA-MA770T-UD3
dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.board.version: x.x
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrF10:bd03/22/2011:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnGA-MA770T-UD3:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnGA-MA770T-UD3:rvrx.x:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: GA-MA770T-UD3
dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.8.4+bzr3407-0ubuntu1
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.39-0ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 9.0-0ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 9.0-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.13.0-0ubuntu6
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.3-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.99.99~git20120913.8637f772-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.20.9-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.2-0ubuntu3

[mikey (abc-mikey)]

Sorry about not managing to post the result of the crash directly but compiz crashing seems to be preventing the report a problem dialogue from working.

As a best attempt to capture the problem - bearing in mind that I only have access to the nautilus desktop, and therefore managed to get hold of a terminal - I ran "compiz --replace" and copied the output as an attachment.

[mikey (abc-mikey)]

Also submitted bug to nvidia-experimental-310 Bug #1085401

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

mikey,

The first problem is that compiz/unity thinks your hardware is too old to support Unity. That sounds wrong, so it's possible your nvidia driver is not installed properly. Try uninstalling and re-installing it.

The second problem is that fallback mode is not working. For Mesa drivers that would be bug 1066764. However for proprietary drivers that is un-fixable. If your hardware and driver doesn't support Unity then please either find some combination that does work, OR uninstall all proprietary graphics drivers so that the fallback to software mode can work.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Hmm, actually I'm not aware of any way to fix this in compiz. So Won't Fix :(

[mikey (abc-mikey)]

I discovered the problem was a packaging problem with the nvidia experimental packages, they apparently didn't include the dependencies required to actually compile the module so the compilation was failing without warning resulting in broken drivers.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

nvidia-graphics-drivers-experimental-310 is removed since precise, closing it's bugs