installing NVIDIA non-free binary package requires manual configuration
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Baltix |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15 (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17 (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.19 (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20 (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I'm running Dapper Drake testing (Flight 4 + updates). When installing the proprietary nvidia-glx package, apt fails to completely integrate the nvidia driver with the rest of the system and much manual configuration is left to the user. Xorg.conf must be tweaked by hand and there is no menu item for the nvidia-settings program that is included with the nvidia-glx package. I propose that the nvidia-glx package is adapted to automate this process. xorg.conf should be altered automatically and a desktop file should be included for the nvidia-settings program so that it appears under System-
The following alterations to xorg.conf are required (per NVIDIA's website) in order to use the driver: The device driver must be changed to "nvidia", both the "dri" and "GLCore" modules must be disabled and the "glx" module should be enabled.
It also might be a good idea to automatically disable the NVIDIA logo via the "NoLogo" option to smooth the visual transition from usplash to gdm but this is by no means mandatory.
I suspect that the nvidia-glx-legacy package is also affected by this bug. If that is indeed the case, it would also require the same patches to be applied to it.
Changed in linux-restricted-modules-2.6.19: | |
status: | Unconfirmed → Rejected |
Changed in baltix: | |
status: | New → Invalid |
As an nvidia-glx-legacy user please don't do this. The non-legacy nvidia binary package is installed by default so if things were defaulted to the nvidia binary driver X would (by default) appear broken to me. Also software suspend is horribly broken with the binary drivers for me and further, nvidia have yet to release patches to make it work in 2.6.16 kernels (see https:/ /bugzilla. novell. com/show_ bug.cgi? id=147009 )
At least under the current system people quickly know if the binary driver is going to be problematic because they have to enable it by hand.