NVIDIA driver not working anymore because of upgrade from 9631 to 9755 in feisty
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20 (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: nvidia-glx
I have a NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti 200
Testing feisty, yesterday an upgrade of nvidia-glx from 1.0.9631 to 1.0.9755 break my 3D capability.
Here is the error message in Xorg.0.log :
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(II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver 1.0-9755 Mon Feb 26 23:23:13 PST 2007
(II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
(WW) NVIDIA(0): The NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti 200 GPU installed in this system is
(WW) NVIDIA(0): supported through the NVIDIA 1.0-96xx Legacy drivers.
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Please visit http://
(WW) NVIDIA(0): more information. The 1.0-9755 NVIDIA driver will ignore
(WW) NVIDIA(0): this GPU. Continuing probe...
(EE) No devices detected.
Fatal server error:
no screens found
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I then had no choice but switch to nvidia-glx-legacy (1.0.7184). Now I can load Xorg and see the desktop. Xorg.0.log shows :
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(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1280x1024"
(II) Loading extension NV-GLX
(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA 3D Acceleration Architecture Initialized
(II) NVIDIA(0): Using the NVIDIA 2D acceleration architecture
(==) NVIDIA(0): Backing store disabled
(==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled
(**) Option "dpms"
(**) NVIDIA(0): DPMS enabled
(II) Loading extension NV-CONTROL
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" is not used
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but, no 3D task can be performed. When I try glxgears for example, I can see the following error message :
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Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual
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It is a bit sad because my GPU was able to run compiz/beryl right after installing the nvidia drivers from Ubuntu feisty repository, and now I cannot do it anymore.
(Suggestion : A package for NVIDIA 1.0-96xx Legacy drivers in Ubuntu repositories.)
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Mar 26 15:25:25 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux jef-desktop 2.6.20-13-generic #2 SMP Sun Mar 25 00:21:25 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
This breaks for me too, same error, nvidia geforce 2 go. The 96xx legacy drivers are also not in the repository, and the nvidia drivers are required for this laptop to work with any amount of stability.