Nvidia driver Enabled but not In Use
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Jockey |
Fix Released
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Undecided
|
Martin Pitt | ||
jockey (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
|
Martin Pitt | ||
Hardy |
Fix Released
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Undecided
|
Martin Pitt | ||
Intrepid |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Martin Pitt |
Bug Description
I am using the binary Nvidia driver, and it works ok. However, the display in Hardware Drivers is odd to me: it says the driver is "Enabled" (with a checkmark) but in the other column says it is "Not in Use" (with a red dot).
Since the driver works fine, I think it should say both Enabled and In Use.
(Also, I'm not even sure what the difference between the columns is. Perhaps it could be explained somewhere? Currently pressing 'help' gives an error message in the help viewer.)
TEST CASE:
- On a system with an nvidia graphics card, check which driver jockey recommends (old, newest, or standard driver, corresponding to nvidia-glx-legacy, nvidia-glx-new, and nvidia-glx).
- Install the one which is *not* recommended (usually n-glx-new or n-glx)
- Jockey in hardy final: driver appears as enabled
- Fixed Jockey: driver appears as disabled
Changed in jockey: | |
assignee: | nobody → pitti |
milestone: | none → ubuntu-8.04.1 |
status: | New → In Progress |
Can you please do
jockey-gtk --list --debug | tee /tmp/jockey.txt
in a Terminal and attach /tmp/jockey.txt here? Replace jockey-gtk with jockey-kde if you are using Kubuntu.
Also, please give me the output of "dpkg -l nvidia-glx*". Thank you!