checkbox should not run on nvidia (was: appearing error message extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0".)

[edilsonka]

Binary package hint: xorg

Dear sirs;

Just updated the Ubuntu to 9.10 and since 9.04 version is appearing the message below:
Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0".

Please can you inform how can I fix it?

Tks in advance,

B. Regards;

Edilson

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CheckboxCommand: resolution_test
CheckboxDescription:
 Sua tela está usando a seguinte resolução:

 $output

 Isto é aceitável para sua tela?
CheckboxTest: resolution
Date: Fri Oct 30 22:37:38 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
MachineType: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. 945GCM-S2C
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu7
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=ec908a5a-5b98-4046-a4c6-a223dcd47c2a ro locale=pt_BR quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=pt_BR.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu7
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0-1ubuntu4
 libdrm2 2.4.14-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.0-1ubuntu2
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090929.7968e1fb-0ubuntu1
SourcePackage: xorg
Tags: checkbox-bug
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
Xrandr:
 Error: command ['xrandr', '--verbose'] failed with exit code 1: Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0".
 RandR extension missing
dmi.bios.date: 11/08/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
dmi.bios.version: F4
dmi.board.name: 945GCM-S2C
dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrF4:bd11/08/2007:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pn945GCM-S2C:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rn945GCM-S2C:rvr:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: 945GCM-S2C
dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
fglrx: Not loaded
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 architecture: i686kernel: 2.6.31-14-generic

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

checkbox's video test uses the xrandr command to do its testing. This command utilizes the XRANDR 1.2 feature to do its stuff.

The binary -nvidia driver does not support XRANDR 1.2. It isn't even on their priority list - see http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_qa_linux&num=5 the question on the bottom of page 5.

Because of this, checkbox should be configured to not do any testing if the nvidia kernel module is present on the system. In fact, it would be smart to have the test check for if XRANDR is present on :0.0 before running, since there are likely other video drivers out there which lack XRANDR 1.2, but excluding nvidia will at least prevent the vast bulk of mistaken bug reports.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Something needs to be done about this. We get tons of bugreports due to this, not only from nvidia owners but everyone !radeon/!intel. Disabling the screen test from 9.10 completely should be SRUable, right?

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Marc, can you please disable this for nvidia? I'm happy sponsor an update, just ping me here (I'm subscribed).

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

still nothing..

[Marc Tardif (cr3)]

I just tried on Lucid with a system containing an nVidia graphics controller and with the nvidia kernel module, both xrandr and the xrandr_cycle script (under /usr/share/checkbox/scripts) seem to run fine. Should any test using xrandr still be disabled when the nvidia kernel module is loaded?

[Vish (vish)]

Is this bug still relevant? It was milestoned to *Lucid Alpha 2*
 and there has been no progress since.

Maybe set a new milestone , or close the bug?

[Ara Pulido (ara)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Ubuntu 9.10 reached EOL on April 30th, 2011.
Please see this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version.

I will close this bug now. If you are able to reproduce it with a current supported version of Ubuntu, please, create a new one typing "ubuntu-bug checkbox" on a terminal.

Thanks!