jockey-gtk shows nvidia-current as disabled although it's installed and active

Bug #727117 reported by Daniel Knittl-Frank
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Bug Description

jockey-gtk shows nvidia-current as disabled although it's installed and active. i've attached a screenshot (jockey-gtk and nvidia-settings side by side) to show the problem. this happens on a 32 bit system of ubuntu natty (but happened on maverick too)

http://paste2.org/p/1275564 shows output of update-alternatives

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ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: jockey-gtk 0.9.1-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-5.32-generic-pae 2.6.38-rc6
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-5-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Mar 1 12:44:47 2011
MachineType: Dell Inc. Precision M4300
PackageArchitecture: all
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-5-generic-pae root=UUID=f957135d-b762-45ac-9e0d-6979595882aa ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: jockey
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-01-13 (46 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 05/23/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A11
dmi.board.name: 0UY141
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA11:bd05/23/2008:svnDellInc.:pnPrecisionM4300:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0UY141:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Precision M4300
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

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Daniel Knittl-Frank (knittl) wrote :
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Daniel Knittl-Frank (knittl) wrote :
description: updated
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Daniel Knittl-Frank (knittl) wrote :

jockey-text shows similar symptoms:

    $ jockey-text -l
    xorg:nvidia_current - NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (Proprietary, Disabled, In use)

    $ lsmod|grep nv
    nvidia 9732498 34

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Daniel Knittl-Frank (knittl) wrote :

attaching a logfile taken directly after trying to install the driver and closing jockey (logfile was emptied before starting jockey)

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