Offer nvidia driver version 96 again

Bug #293107 reported by Fabián Rodríguez
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
jockey (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Martin Pitt
Intrepid
Fix Released
High
Martin Pitt
Jaunty
Fix Released
Undecided
Martin Pitt

Bug Description

When going to System > Administration > Hardware Drivers, Jockey reports "No proprietary drivers are in use on this machine". As a result, nvidia-settings can't be used, thus preventing dual monitor setup. Desktop effects most probably not working either.

More details to come.

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Barry Warsaw (barry) wrote :

This is affecting my machine. Details:

]% lspci | grep -i vidia
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18GL [Quadro NVS 280 SD] (rev a2)
% uname -a
Linux mission 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Thu Oct 30 04:18:38 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

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Barry Warsaw (barry) wrote :

Here's the root problem:

After resetting X (thanks Fabian!) I now have a single monitor working at 1900x1200. Dual monitor does not work and nvidia-settings complains with the following message:

You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X driver. Please edit your X configuration file (just run `nvidia-xconfig` as root), and restart the X server.

Running nvidia-xconfig does nothing noticeable. It definitely does not allow nvidia-settings to be run.

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Alberto Milone (albertomilone) wrote :

can you attach the output of this command?
lspci -n | grep 300

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Barry Warsaw (barry) wrote :

% lspci -n | grep 300
01:00.0 0300: 10de:018a (rev a2)

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Alberto Milone (albertomilone) wrote :

Barry, your card seems to be supported only by nvidia-glx-71 and nvidia-glx-96. I have provided updated drivers in intrepid-proposed which are still blacklisted in Jockey, therefore you'll have to install them manually.

See this bug report:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-96/+bug/251107

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Barry Warsaw (barry) wrote :

I grabbed -96 from proposed and installed it through synaptic, but nvidia-settings still isn't happy.

Is there something else I need to do? Should I try -71? Or should I just wait until they show up in not-proposed and Jockey is unblacklisted?

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Alberto Milone (albertomilone) wrote :

what's the output of this command?
ls -lR /var/lib/dkms/nvidia

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Barry Warsaw (barry) wrote :

Alberto, sorry I actually just got it working! Now twinview is enabled and I have my dual screens back. Thanks for your help.

(Aside: how to stop the deskbar from extending into the second screen? I'd like it if it just showed up on the left screen)

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Actually, it is a duplicate, but let's use this bug for tracking the removal of the -71 and -96 blacklisting in jockey. This will happen once bug 251107 is confirmed working.

Changed in jockey:
assignee: nobody → pitti
status: New → In Progress
description: updated
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Bug 251107 seems to confirm that the version 96 in intrepid-proposed now works, but 71 doesn't yet. So I unblacklisted version 96 in the ubuntu bzr branch.

I'll merge this to the intrepid branch and upload to -proposed.

Changed in jockey:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
assignee: nobody → pitti
importance: Undecided → High
milestone: none → intrepid-updates
status: New → In Progress
milestone: intrepid-updates → none
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Accepted into intrepid-proposed, please test and give feedback here. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

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Elfy (elfy) wrote :

This is working fine for me, reports that the 96 driver is enabled.

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Endolith (endolith) wrote :

I installed the proposed update and restarted, but I'm still getting the "No proprietary drivers are in use on this system" with an nVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200 64 MB. Should I file a separate bug?

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/49574

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: [Bug 293107] Re: Offer nvidia driver version 96 again

Endolith [2008-11-05 0:37 -0000]:
> I installed the proposed update and restarted, but I'm still getting the
> "No proprietary drivers are in use on this system" with an nVIDIA
> GeForce FX Go5200 64 MB. Should I file a separate bug?

Do you have the nvidia-common package installed? It seems a lot of
people don't, mainly they used apt-get dist-upgrade for the upgrade
from 8.04. If not, does installing it help?

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Endolith (endolith) wrote :

> Do you have the nvidia-common package installed? It seems a lot of
> people don't, mainly they used apt-get dist-upgrade for the upgrade
> from 8.04. If not, does installing it help?

After the update and re-installing nvidia-common, I see both 96 and 173 in the Hardware Drivers box, but I can't Activate either.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Endolith [2008-11-06 3:58 -0000]:
> After the update and re-installing nvidia-common, I see both 96 and 173
> in the Hardware Drivers box, but I can't Activate either.

What happens exactly?

Can you please open a Terminal window and so

  sudo killall jockey-backend
  sudo /usr/share/jockey/jockey-backend --debug -l /tmp/jockey.log

then open Hardware Drivers, try to enable a driver, close it again, go
back to the Terminal, press Control-C, and attach /tmp/jockey.log
here?

Thanks!

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

More positive reports in bug 251107, considering verified.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

intrepid-proposed package copied to jaunty.

Changed in jockey:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Endolith (endolith) wrote :

> What happens exactly?

1. Open Hardware Drivers window
2. It lists "NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version 173) [Recommended]" and "NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version 96)" with gray lights next to them, and an "Activate" button with a green light. Clicking on either driver shows "This driver is not activated" at the bottom with another gray light.
3. I select either of the drivers and click the Activate button.
4. Asks for password
5. An "Untitled window" dialog pops up that says "Downloading and installing driver", with an indeterminate-progress indicator.
6. After a long wait, the progress bar starts to fills up, and it acts as though it is installing, though it provides no feedback after it's done; it just disappears
7. The "Activate" button is still lit green, and the lights next to the drivers are still grey.

After a reboot it ends up in low-graphics mode because it's not configured correctly.

> then open Hardware Drivers, try to enable a driver, close it again, go
> back to the Terminal, press Control-C, and attach /tmp/jockey.log
> here?

Attached. I tried installing both a few times during this log

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Copied to intrepid-updates.

Changed in jockey:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Endolith (endolith) wrote :

Created a new Bug #298584 for my problem

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Sam Liddicott (sam-liddicott) wrote :

I have the same problem:

jockey's debug says:

2009-01-16 19:42:14,825 WARNING: DriverID for module nvidia does not refer to a
locally available module and does not specify free/description/package; ignoring
2009-01-16 19:42:14,826 DEBUG: no corresponding handler available for {'driver_t
ype': 'kernel_module', 'kernel_module': 'nvidia', 'jockey_handler': 'KernelModul
eHandler', 'package': 'nvidia-glx-96'}

and "Hardware Drivers" doesn't offer me any nvidia drivers.

If I type:
sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-96

it tries to uninstall most of xorg

If I type:
sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-96 xorg

it says:
The following packages have unmet dependencies.
  xserver-xorg-core: Conflicts: xserver-xorg-video-4

My graphics card is a go5600,
$ lspci -n
01:00.0 0300: 10de:031a (rev a1)

lspci
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV31M [GeForce FX Go5600] (rev a1)

I'm using jaunty with proposed and backports

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Sam Liddicott (sam-liddicott) wrote :

I managed to build nvidia-glx-96 (although it didn't work) but it seemed enough to coax jockey in to fetching nvidia-glx-173 (which I could build, but dkms couldn't build)

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Sam Liddicott (sam-liddicott) wrote :

I lied, it did download and install nvidia-glx-173, but it also un-installed ubuntu-desktop, xorg and all the other goodies - and then also failed to load nvidia.ko !

So no joy :-(

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Alberto Milone (albertomilone) wrote :

Sam: this is not the right bug report for your problem. Keep an eye on this bug report for updates:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/308410

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abiticus (robert-sylvanenergysolutions) wrote :

it was working fine then it would not recall desktop settings then, nothing I can't initiate it

Changed in jockey (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Released → Fix Committed
Changed in jockey (Ubuntu Intrepid):
status: Fix Released → Confirmed
Martin Pitt (pitti)
Changed in jockey (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in jockey (Ubuntu Intrepid):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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