No prompt for restart after driver install

[plun]

Intrepid clean install, Alpha 6

nVidia driver install without any trouble, 177.70

To avoid confused users it must be better to prompt for a restart.

Also, if possible, make the Window larger... rather messy now.

Thanks ! :)

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

1) Do you use Ubuntu or Kubuntu? (Jockey has a GTK and a KDE ui.)
2) I'll work on the notification
3) Can you explain (in detail, maybe with a screenshot) what you by "making the window larger"?

[nullack (nullack)]

Moving status to confirmed as the developer has kindly agreed to work on notifying the user in making the user experience more intuitive.

[plun (plun)]

1. Ubuntu-GTK

2. Thanks Alberto !

3. http://ubuntu-pics.de/bild/3446/jockey_WlYyT4.png

This is a challenge out of MMI design (man-machine interface)

Double text boxes with scrollbars.

Maybe just to reduce the amount of text above the first text box ?

A lot of PCs can run without proprietary drivers, maybe the text is somehow misleading.

I also think that its room for some discussion about this ;)

[Markus Korn (thekorn)]

This is also an issue in a live session, installing a restricted driver via jockey works like a charm, but it requires restarting of X. So there should be a hint like "please log out and log in again" instead of rebooting which does not make any sense in a live session ;)

Markus

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

Confirmed that this is still present in 0.5~alpha1-0ubuntu2 .

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

This is fixed in revision 420-421 of my branch:
https://code.launchpad.net/~albertomilone/jockey/jockey-generic

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Thanks Alberto, merged to trunk, will upload to Intrepid soon.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package jockey - 0.5~alpha1-0ubuntu5

---------------
jockey (0.5~alpha1-0ubuntu5) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Merge bug fixes from trunk:
    - Fix XorgDriverHandler to not be "used" right after enabling.
    - Make sure that dri2 is not disabled for fglrx, it crashes amdcccle. (LP:
      #273320) [Alberto]
    - Use a "refresh" icon for drivers where a reboot needs to happen.
      (LP: #272238) [Alberto]
    - Fix KDE notification and the related test. Work around segfault when
      exiting the KDE UI. (LP: #270522) [Alberto]
    - search_driver(): Return list of installed files in addition to status
      code. Document the return value in README.txt. (LP: #269311)
    - Converts search_driver() printer device ID to friendly string (only
      supports printers for now). (part of LP #269454)
    - Do not make a backup of xorg.conf if the proprietary driver is already
      set there, so that we don't automatically revert to a configuration with
      the proprietary driver after uninstalling exactly that. [Alberto]

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:40:22 +0200

[plun (plun)]

Well, I change status for this one because I didn't get any prompt, just
a little notification within the GUI.

Preferred is the same as with kernel installs.

After a little adventure with Nouveau I also wonder how Jockey triggers DKMS reset ?

The only way I found out is a kernel reinstall

[plun (plun)]

Also got this after my little adventure with Nouveau

[ 60.085644] NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 177.80, but
[ 60.085648] NVRM: this kernel module has the version 177.76. Please
[ 60.085650] NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver
[ 60.085651] NVRM: components have the same version.
[ 63.205642] NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 177.80, but
[ 63.205646] NVRM: this kernel module has the version 177.76. Please

[ 278.936478] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 177.80 Wed Oct 1 14:38:10 PDT 2008
[ 358.173432] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 177.80 Wed Oct 1 14:38:10 PDT 2008

So something is probably broken somewhere....

[plun (plun)]

plun@plun:~$ locate nvidia.ko

/lib/modules/2.6.27-3-generic/updates/dkms/nvidia.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.27-4-generic/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia/nvidia.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.27-4-generic/updates/dkms/nvidia.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.27-6-generic/updates/dkms/nvidia.ko
/lib/modules/last-good-boot/updates/dkms/nvidia.ko
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/177.80/2.6.27-6-generic/i686/module/nvidia.ko
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/177.80/build/.nvidia.ko.cmd
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/177.80/build/nvidia.ko
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/original_module/2.6.27-6-generic/i686/nvidia.ko

I must install the driver from nVidia for solving this....

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

Please post the output of the following commands:
apt-cache policy nvidia-glx-177 nvidia-177-kernel-source
dkms status

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Right, it's not supposed to do the tray icon any more, just display the need to reboot in the jockey UI.

[plun (plun)]

It must be much better with a tray-icon reboot signal...

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

plun@plun:~$ apt-cache policy nvidia-glx-177 nvidia-177-kernel-source
nvidia-glx-177:
  Installed: 177.80-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 177.80-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 177.80-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/restricted Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
nvidia-177-kernel-source:
  Installed: 177.80-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 177.80-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 177.80-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/restricted Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

plun@plun:~$ dkms status
nvidia, 177.80, 2.6.27-5-generic, i686: installed
nvidia, 177.80, 2.6.27-6-generic, i686: installed (original_module exists) (WARNING! Diff between built and installed module!)

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

ABI bump for kernel ?

DKMS trigg for Jockey.... ?

sudo apt-get install --reinstall linux-image-2.6.27-5-generic

Trigg OK....

[plun (plun)]

For avoiding work maybe this is important.

I enabled Nouveau with this wiki

http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/UbuntuPackages

Going back was a adventure.... ;)

Nevertheless its several threads within the forum with the same challenge and I dont think
all of the enabled Nouveau...

Something breaks Jockey and Jockey should be "master" over this...