nvidia-xconfig not setting up xorg.conf

[MM]

Binary package hint: xorg

When installing Nvidia 185 source along with glx, nvidia-xconfig is not automatically running and setting up xorg.conf which I thought is suppose to be normal and not making the end-user run the command.

When I first installed Karmic a few days ago after installing Nvidia I did not need to manually run nvidia-xconfig. Today I reinstalled Karmic and after doing an update and then installing Nvidia, after I rebooted I noticed the drivers didn't load and I had to manually run nvidia-xconfig to get xorg.conf setup.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 6 20:12:39 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
MachineType: Apple Inc. MacBookPro5,5
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
Package: xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu5
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-12-generic root=UUID=3de4dc42-a69a-4d58-a5d9-181553da078d ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-12.39-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu5
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0~git20090817.7c422387-0ubuntu7
 libdrm2 2.4.13-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.8.1-1ubuntu2
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090825.fc74e119-0ubuntu2
SourcePackage: xorg
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-12-generic x86_64
dmi.bios.date: 06/15/09
dmi.bios.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.bios.version: MBP55.88Z.00AC.B03.0906151708
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag#
dmi.board.name: Mac-F2268AC8
dmi.board.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset Tag#
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: Mac-F2268AC8
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAppleInc.:bvrMBP55.88Z.00AC.B03.0906151708:bd06/15/09:svnAppleInc.:pnMacBookPro5,5:pvr1.0:rvnAppleInc.:rnMac-F2268AC8:rvr:cvnAppleInc.:ct10:cvrMac-F2268AC8:
dmi.product.name: MacBookPro5,5
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: Apple Inc.
fglrx: Not loaded
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 architecture: x86_64kernel: 2.6.31-12-generic

[lspci]
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation C79 [GeForce 9400M] [10de:0863] (rev b1)
     Subsystem: Apple Computer Inc. Device [106b:00b9]

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi Dasfox,

I may be confused by your bug report, could you elaborate a bit more on how you ran into this?

It sounds like you did a fresh install of Karmic and then installed nvidia and it worked.
Then you did another clean fresh install of Karmic (using the same cd?) and then installed nvidia and it did not work.

That seems to not make sense to me, it should either work in both cases or fail in both cases. Can you clarify further, I'm guessing I just misunderstand what you've reported.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.