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nvidia-graphics-drivers-367 package

  1. Bug #1665581
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 1665581

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a. Mennucc (mennucc1) wrote :

I analyzed the problem and found the culprit

Each time a window manager is (re)started, due to the conf file /etc/init/gpu-manager.conf , the program 'gpu-manager' is called. This program does not like my NVIDIA card, so it calls "update-alternatives" to force X11 to use mesa drivers and libs, even though NVIDIA drivers and libs are installed

TO "solve" the problem I moved away the culprit
# mv /usr/bin/gpu-manager /usr/bin/gpu-manager~~
and used
# update-alternatives --config i386-linux-gnu_egl_conf
# update-alternatives --config i386-linux-gnu_gl_conf
and then restarted .the system

Now it works as a charm, getting superb framerates in games etc etc.

Some more info

I have a card NVIDIA Corporation GK208 [GeForce GT 730]
I installed Ubuntu xenial
I am running kernel 4.8.0-41-generic
gpu-manager is part of ubuntu-drivers-common 1:0.4.17.2

I attach the log of gpu-manager