'Additional drivers' doesn't identify active nvidia driver

[Chad A Davis]

'Additional drivers' (jockey-gtk) appears to base it's identification of the currently active driver on the contents of xorg.conf.

Try this:
* Start additional drivers; install nvidia driver; reboot; verify 3D works
* Start additional drivers; note that nvidia is marked 'activated and currently in use'
* Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and comment out the driver line (proposed fix to Bug 522061)
* Start additional drivers (logging out not necessary). It now reports regarding nvidia: "A different version of this driver is in use"

The option to 'Activate' is enabled. Activating then causes xorg.conf to be updated with a 'Driver' line, reintroducing Bug 522061. I.e. jockey determines what video driver is loaded by reading xorg.conf, rather than e.g. looking at what kernel modules are loaded.

jockey-gtk:
  Installed: 0.9.2-0ubuntu3
  Candidate: 0.9.2-0ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 0.9.2-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

nvidia-current:
  Installed: 270.30-0ubuntu3
  Candidate: 270.30-0ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 270.30-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/restricted amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

xorg:
  Installed: 1:7.6~3ubuntu11
  Candidate: 1:7.6~3ubuntu11
  Version table:
 *** 1:7.6~3ubuntu11 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: jockey-gtk 0.9.2-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.39-generic 2.6.38
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Mar 26 15:23:34 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64+mac (20110323)
MachineType: Apple Inc. MacBookPro6,2
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-7-generic root=UUID=a4b0a481-4097-471f-9aa0-717f93b9425c ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: jockey
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-03-26 (0 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 07/26/10
dmi.bios.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.bios.version: MBP61.88Z.0057.B0C.1007261552
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag#
dmi.board.name: Mac-F22586C8
dmi.board.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.board.version: MacBookPro6,2
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: Mac-F22586C8
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAppleInc.:bvrMBP61.88Z.0057.B0C.1007261552:bd07/26/10:svnAppleInc.:pnMacBookPro6,2:pvr1.0:rvnAppleInc.:rnMac-F22586C8:rvrMacBookPro6,2:cvnAppleInc.:ct10:cvrMac-F22586C8:
dmi.product.name: MacBookPro6,2
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: Apple Inc.

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #771788 , so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.