Nvidia restricted driver disappeared from restricted-manager

[Shadows_Friend]

Yesterday I installed the Feisty Beta on my Acer Travelmate C200 Notebook. The new manager for restricted drivers was instantly able to tell me that my NVIDIA Geforce Go 6200 needs the nvidia-glx restricted driver. But after I updated my Distribution via the update-manager my NVIDIA card disappeared from the restricted-manager dialogue and the manager tells me there aren't any restricted drivers to manage.

Edit: This is maybe the same bug which was already posted here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/restricted-manager/+bug/99291

[tafkar (j-o-st)]

Can u verify that the "linux-restricted-modules" package for you kernel-version ( type uname -r ) is installed. I.E. with
dpkg -l | grep restricted
If not: Try to switch back to an older kernel in grub, until the package is available via synaptics.

[Shadows_Friend (shadows-friend)]

The restricted-modules package is installed for both kernels I have (2.6.20-12 and 2.6.20-13, both generic). I was able to install the nvidia-glx driver manually without any problems but it doesn't want to show up in the restricted-manager. When I booted the old kernel my X server crashed with a version mismatch (Because my nvidia-glx driver is newer than the kernel module the restricted-modules from the old driver provide). I then switched to the nv driver again and now was able to start the X-Server. But the driver still doesn't appear in the restricted-manger.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Please send me the output of these commands:

  lspci | grep VGA
  lspci -n | grep 300

[Shadows_Friend (shadows-friend)]

Here are the requested outputs:

lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce Go 6200 TurboCache (rev a1)

lspci -n | grep 300
01:00.0 0300: 10de:0167 (rev a1)

[Tyrano Jones (tyrano)]

I have the same problem, but with a 7800 GTX Go. Here are the similar command outputs.

dpkg -l | grep restricted
ii linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-12-generic 2.6.20.3-12.11 Non-free Linux 2.6.20 modules on x86/x86_64
ii linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-13-generic 2.6.20.4-13.14 Non-free Linux 2.6.20 modules on x86/x86_64
ii linux-restricted-modules-common 2.6.20.4-13.14 Non-free Linux 2.6.20 modules helper script
ii linux-restricted-modules-generic 2.6.20.13.10 Restricted Linux modules for generic kernels
ii restricted-manager 0.17 manage non-free hardware drivers

lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GE Force Go 7800 GTX (rev a1)

lspci -n | grep 300
01:00.0 0300: 10de:0099 (rev a1)

I am also running Feisty, updated latest as of this message.

[zeddock (zeddock)]

I believe this might be same problem only with a 4200.

zeddock

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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