Yes, indeed it should be marked as enabled afterwards, so that's a bug. It checks the following things in order to consider a driver as enabled:
- xorg.conf must have Driver "nvidia", which seems to be the case according to comment 5
- if xorg.conf is invalid (syntax error, etc.), it is regarded as "disabled". This isn't the case here (with your xorg.conf)
- the package nvidia-glx-96 is installed; does "dpkg -s nvidia-glx-96" succeed and show you the package description?
- the module nvidia is not blacklisted (I don't think that's the case); this should give no results:
grep -r 'blacklist.*nvidia' /etc/modprobe.d
- the nvidia module is available; does "modinfo nvidia" succeed and show you the module description?
I suspect that the last item fails, and the module is not available, but I'll wait for your answer before theoretizing further. Thanks!
Yes, indeed it should be marked as enabled afterwards, so that's a bug. It checks the following things in order to consider a driver as enabled:
- xorg.conf must have Driver "nvidia", which seems to be the case according to comment 5
- if xorg.conf is invalid (syntax error, etc.), it is regarded as "disabled". This isn't the case here (with your xorg.conf)
- the package nvidia-glx-96 is installed; does "dpkg -s nvidia-glx-96" succeed and show you the package description?
- the module nvidia is not blacklisted (I don't think that's the case); this should give no results:
grep -r 'blacklist.*nvidia' /etc/modprobe.d
- the nvidia module is available; does "modinfo nvidia" succeed and show you the module description?
I suspect that the last item fails, and the module is not available, but I'll wait for your answer before theoretizing further. Thanks!