current-updates is not up to date

[Peter Würtz]

I'm having trouble with a combination of NVIDIA + Python + Qt + Opengl.

I tried using a QGraphicsView on a QGLWidget. I'm getting a white window and errors like this these:
QGLShader: could not create shader
Vertex shader for simpleShaderProg (MainVertexShader &PositionOnlyVertexShader) failed to compile

This is an example application triggering the problem:
http://pastebin.com/R0aa8ejs

The 'same' program works flawlessly when using C++/Qt. I'm seeing the exact behavior when using PySide instead of PyQt4. I'm also seeing this error when trying the official demo from python-qt4-doc. This only happens on systems with the old nvidia driver 280.

After manually updating the driver to version 290 provided by nvidia, everything works normally as expected.

Why is this driver not available in ubuntu? According to the description, nvidia-current-updates should contain a post-release updated version of this driver. Apparently it is the same version as nvidia-current.

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

The driver will be updated soon

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Boaz Dodin (bdcomp)]

On 13/2/2012 Nvidia releases 295.20 certified drivers for Linux:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-295.20-driver.html

Why even no 285 series drivers released to the updates channel, althought bug 887630 marked as "Fix Relesed" for almost a month?!?

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

SRU request:
Please accept nvidia-current-updates and nvidia-settings-updates 295.20-0ubuntu0.1 in oneiric-proposed.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Hello Peter, or anyone else affected,

Accepted nvidia-graphics-drivers-updates into oneiric-proposed. The package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Peter Würtz (pwuertz)]

I was not able to simply revert back to the ubuntu maintained version of the nvidia driver and reinstalled my system using a 12.04 daily-live. My problem seems to be present there as well, although 12.04 provides the latest nvidia driver. This bug seems to be caused by the ubuntu packaged version, as the driver installation from nvidia fixed the problem I described...

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Hello Peter, or anyone else affected,

Accepted nvidia-settings-updates into oneiric-proposed. The package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Boaz Dodin (bdcomp)]

I don't wanna be rude (and I hope you will understand that I feel), but I just don't get it - month after month, bug after bug marked as "fix released" or "fix comitted", version after version and still no new "updates" package...

May I ask why it's happen?

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Nobody came forward and tested the packages in oneiric-proposed (and then told us about it), see comment 7.

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

The package currently in oneiric-proposed needs to be updated with the security fix that has just been uploaded to oneiric-security.

[jhfhlkjlj (fdsuufijjejejejej-deactivatedaccount)]

The new driver is just dandy. Played a game, suspend/resume works, attaching monitors is better than with 280. This gets an okay.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package nvidia-graphics-drivers-updates - 295.20-0ubuntu0.1

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nvidia-graphics-drivers-updates (295.20-0ubuntu0.1) oneiric-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (LP: #919992):
    - added support for the following gpu:
      o nvs 5200m
    - fixed a bug that caused black areas to appear on the
      back faces of some models in maya.
    - fixed a bug that resulted in the printing of spurious
      loader error messages.
    - fixed a bug that could cause x to crash after
      hotplugging displays.
    - fixed a bug which caused face selections to be
      misrendered in maya when using the paint selection
      tool.
    - improved performance for interactive tools in mudbox.
    - added support for deleting sdi audio ancillary data
      packets when a video frame is dropped on a quadro sdi
      output device. see the nv_ctrl_gvo_audio_blanking
      attribute in nvctrl.h for details. this option can be
      set via the gvoaudioblanking attribute in
      nvidia-settings.
 -- alberto milone <email address hidden> mon, 20 feb 2012 19:04:17 +0100