nvidia driver is falsely reported as “not currently in use”
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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jockey (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
On latest Natty, Jockey claims “no proprietary drivers are in use on this system”, despite the fact that I have the Nvidia driver (nvidia-current) installed and in use.
The package is detected, but the status line on the bottom says “This driver is activated but not currently in use”.
I tried to deactivate and reactivate and it still displays the same message.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: jockey-gtk 0.8-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jan 17 17:03:33 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
MachineType: System manufacturer P5Q-PRO
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
SourcePackage: jockey
dmi.bios.date: 11/04/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 1501
dmi.board.
dmi.board.name: P5Q-PRO
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: Rev 1.xx
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmerican
dmi.product.name: P5Q-PRO
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer
This may be related: When I try to report a bug in compiz (with “ubuntu-bug”), I get a dialog claiming that it appears I may have installed nVidia drivers manually, and asking if I have uninstalled them.
I don’t remember for certain, it is possible I may have tried a manual driver install a long time ago, but I’m pretty sure I got rid of them. (I don’t know how to make sure, though, i.e. I’ve no idea what triggers that dialog.)