Comment 103 for bug 771788

My jockey.log

2011-06-12 11:27:27,136 DEBUG: reading modalias file /usr/share/jockey/modaliases/disable-upstream-nvidia
2011-06-12 11:27:27,179 DEBUG: loading custom handler /usr/share/jockey/handlers/nouveau3d.py
2011-06-12 11:27:27,199 DEBUG: Instantiated Handler subclass __builtin__.Nouveau3DHandler from name Nouveau3DHandler
2011-06-12 11:27:27,200 DEBUG: Experimental 3D support for NVIDIA cards not available
...
2011-06-12 11:27:27,359 DEBUG: loading custom handler /usr/share/jockey/handlers/nvidia.py
2011-06-12 11:27:27,363 WARNING: modinfo for module nvidia_96 failed: ERROR: modinfo: could not find module nvidia_96

2011-06-12 11:27:27,366 DEBUG: Instantiated Handler subclass __builtin__.NvidiaDriver96 from name NvidiaDriver96
2011-06-12 11:27:27,367 DEBUG: nvidia.available: falling back to default
2011-06-12 11:27:27,382 DEBUG: XorgDriverHandler(nvidia_96, nvidia-96, None): Disabling as package video ABI xorg-video-abi-8 does not match X.org video ABI xorg-video-abi-10
2011-06-12 11:27:27,383 DEBUG: NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver not available
2011-06-12 11:27:27,388 DEBUG: Instantiated Handler subclass __builtin__.NvidiaDriverCurrent from name NvidiaDriverCurrent
2011-06-12 11:27:27,389 DEBUG: nvidia.available: falling back to default
2011-06-12 11:27:27,425 DEBUG: NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver availability undetermined, adding to pool
2011-06-12 11:27:27,425 DEBUG: Could not instantiate Handler subclass __builtin__.NvidiaDriverBase from name NvidiaDriverBase
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jockey/detection.py", line 947, in get_handlers
    inst = obj(backend)
TypeError: __init__() takes exactly 3 arguments (2 given)
2011-06-12 11:27:27,428 WARNING: modinfo for module nvidia_173 failed: ERROR: modinfo: could not find module nvidia_173

2011-06-12 11:27:27,431 DEBUG: Instantiated Handler subclass __builtin__.NvidiaDriver173 from name NvidiaDriver173
2011-06-12 11:27:27,432 DEBUG: nvidia.available: falling back to default
2011-06-12 11:27:27,460 DEBUG: NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver availability undetermined, adding to pool
...
2011-06-12 11:27:28,198 DEBUG: ignoring unavailable handler xorg:nouveau([Nouveau3DHandler, free, enabled] Experimental 3D support for NVIDIA cards)
2011-06-12 11:27:28,270 DEBUG: nvidia.available: falling back to default
2011-06-12 11:27:28,286 DEBUG: got handler xorg:nvidia_current([NvidiaDriverCurrent, nonfree, enabled] NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver)
2011-06-12 11:27:28,299 WARNING: modinfo for module nvidia_173 failed: ERROR: modinfo: could not find module nvidia_173

2011-06-12 11:27:28,302 DEBUG: nvidia.available: falling back to default
2011-06-12 11:27:28,329 DEBUG: nvidia_173 is not the alternative in use
2011-06-12 11:27:28,319 DEBUG: got handler xorg:nvidia_173([NvidiaDriver173, nonfree, disabled] NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver)
2011-06-12 11:27:28,332 DEBUG: nvidia.available: falling back to default
2011-06-12 11:27:28,347 DEBUG: got handler xorg:nvidia_current([NvidiaDriverCurrent, nonfree, enabled] NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver)

syslog.1
Jun 11 14:22:49 mikah-M70Vm kernel: [ 14.449112] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
Jun 11 14:22:49 mikah-M70Vm kernel: [ 14.449115] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
Jun 11 14:22:49 mikah-M70Vm kernel: [ 14.971914] input: HDA Intel Mic as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input10
Jun 11 14:22:50 mikah-M70Vm kernel: [ 15.417496] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
Jun 11 14:22:50 mikah-M70Vm kernel: [ 15.417506] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
Jun 11 14:22:50 mikah-M70Vm kernel: [ 15.417511] vgaarb: device changed decodes: PCI:0000:01:00.0,olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=io+mem
Jun 11 14:22:50 mikah-M70Vm kernel: [ 15.417646] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 270.41.19 Mon May 16 23:31:36 PDT 2011

and Xorg.0.log
    22.662] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
[ 22.662] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules/nvidia_drv.so
[ 22.662] (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
[ 22.662] compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
[ 22.662] Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[ 22.663] (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver 270.41.19 Mon May 16 23:33:05 PDT 2011
[ 22.663] (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs
...
[clipped out a lot of (II) NVIDIA as it is apparent that the module is indeed loaded.]

however:
 jockey-gtk -l
xorg:nvidia_173 - NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)
xorg:nvidia_current - NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (Proprietary, Enabled, Not in use)