nvidia binary driver not used even though enabled in "Additional Drivers"

Bug #1330587 reported by JG
10
This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
NVIDIA Drivers Ubuntu
New
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

In "Software & Updates" the recommended NVIDIA binary driver - version 331.38 (proprietary, tested) is selected. Furthermore the dialog displays "1 proprietary driver in use" (see screenshot).
Nevertheless, running `lshw -c video` shows that (after several reboots) nouveau is still used:
 *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: GT218M [NVS 3100M]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: a2
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0
       resources: irq:42 memory:cc000000-ccffffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:ce000000-cfffffff ioport:2000(size=128) memory:cd000000-cd07ffff

As another symptom running "nvidia-settings" does not display any devices.

Everything worked fine when enabeling the proprietary driver the first time. I then reverted back to nouveau and then tried to enable the NVIDIA driver again. Since then the problems started. Purging and re-installing the NVIDIA packages did not help.

Revision history for this message
JG (jgriss8) wrote :
Revision history for this message
Sylvain Rabot (sylr) wrote :

I have the exact same problem :

rabosy@isis:~$ sudo lspci -s 03:00.0 -v
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK104 [GeForce GTX 760] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
 Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 2847
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 82
 Memory at ee000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
 Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
 Memory at f8000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
 I/O ports at d000 [size=128]
 Expansion ROM at ef000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
 Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 3
 Capabilities: [68] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
 Capabilities: [78] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
 Capabilities: [b4] Vendor Specific Information: Len=14 <?>
 Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
 Capabilities: [128] Power Budgeting <?>
 Capabilities: [600] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=024 <?>
 Capabilities: [900] #19
 Kernel driver in use: nouveau

rabosy@isis:~$ dpkg -l | grep nvidia
ii nvidia-340 340.29-0ubuntu1 amd64 NVIDIA binary driver - version 340.29
ii nvidia-libopencl1-340 340.29-0ubuntu1 amd64 NVIDIA OpenCL Driver and ICD Loader library
ii nvidia-opencl-icd-340 340.29-0ubuntu1 amd64 NVIDIA OpenCL ICD
ii nvidia-prime 0.6.2 amd64 Tools to enable NVIDIA's Prime
ii nvidia-settings 340.29-0ubuntu1 amd64 Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver

rabosy@isis:~$ sudo modprobe nvidia_340
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia_340': No such device

To post a comment you must log in.
This report contains Public information  
Everyone can see this information.

Other bug subscribers

Remote bug watches

Bug watches keep track of this bug in other bug trackers.