Stuck with (experimental) nouveau after "activation" of proprietary driver

Bug #773247 reported by Forlong
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jockey (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

This is on a clean install on natty.

nVidia Corporation G84M [Quadro NVS 140M] (rev a1)

By default is was running the nouveau driver without 3D acceleration.
Running jockey-gtk showed three options then:
- Proprietary nVidia driver (version 173)
- Current version of that driver (recommended)
- experimental 3D support

When installing and activating the recommended driver I was running Compiz and Unity but noticed a certain lag, so I checked via Compiz-Check what driver I was using and it told me still nouveau. Obviously with 3D acceleration now.
Jaunty told me, that the proprietary driver was "activated but not currently in use". There was no option to use it, only remove.
The third option was gone.

Same happens when starting from scratch and activating the 173 one (see screenshot).
At no stage I told jockey to install the experimental driver but since I am running Unity it obviously installed that one (instead?)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: jockey-common 0.9.2-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Apr 29 15:07:18 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
MachineType: LENOVO 889278G
PackageArchitecture: all
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=UUID=c5bb6eef-8bc8-4b32-a5e0-a09722ef6792 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: jockey
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 05/11/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 7LETC6WW (2.26 )
dmi.board.name: 889278G
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr7LETC6WW(2.26):bd05/11/2009:svnLENOVO:pn889278G:pvrThinkPadT61:rvnLENOVO:rn889278G:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 889278G
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T61
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO

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Forlong (forlong) wrote :
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Forlong (forlong) wrote :

Sorry, I obviously meant »Jockey told me, that the proprietary driver was "activated but not currently in use". «
Not Jaunty. -_-

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Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia) wrote :

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.

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