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nvidia-graphics-drivers package

Compiz and glx* fail on glXCreateContext

Bug #560506 reported by astronouth7303 on 2010-04-11

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #570394: nvidia "glXCreateContext failed". Edit Remove

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu)	Incomplete	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Just updated to Lucid Lynx beta 2

Compiz prints out this:
  compiz (core) - Fatal: glXCreateContext failed
  compiz (core) - Error: Failed to manage screen: 0
  compiz (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display :0.0

Launching fallback window manager

glx* (glxinfo, glxgears, etc) print out:
Error: glXCreateContext failed

I am using the nvidia driver on a GeForce 8600 GT.

Possibly related, nothing using OpenGL works. lightsoff, World of Goo, neverball, armagetron advanced. They all fail to create a GL context.
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Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
DkmsStatus:
virtualbox-ose, 3.1.6, 2.6.31-21-generic, i686: built
virtualbox-ose, 3.1.6, 2.6.32-19-generic, i686: installed
nvidia-current, 195.36.15, 2.6.31-21-generic, i686: built
nvidia-current, 195.36.15, 2.6.32-19-generic, i686: installed
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers (not installed)
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=8c44f88b-cbf9-4d31-b053-11039414a5ee ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-19.28-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Tags: lucid lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-19-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy git-data lpadmin netdev plugdev powerdev pulse pulse-access sambashare scanner video
dmi.bios.date: 12/27/2006
dmi.bios.vendor: Intel Corp.
dmi.bios.version: MQ96510J.86A.1612.2006.1227.1513
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: DG965RY
dmi.board.vendor: Intel Corporation
dmi.board.version: AAD41691-207
dmi.chassis.type: 2
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnIntelCorp.:bvrMQ96510J.86A.1612.2006.1227.1513:bd12/27/2006:svn:pn:pvr:rvnIntelCorporation:rnDG965RY:rvrAAD41691-207:cvn:ct2:cvr:
system:
distro: Ubuntu
codename: lucid
architecture: i686
kernel: 2.6.32-19-generic

See original description

Tags:

Søren Bredlund Caspersen (soeren-b-c) on 2010-04-11

affects:

ubuntu → compiz (Ubuntu)

Travis Watkins (amaranth) on 2010-04-11

affects:

compiz (Ubuntu) → nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu)

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Robert Hooker (sarvatt) wrote on 2010-04-11:

Please run apport-collect 560506 to attach your logs to this bug. Off the top of my head I'm guessing you are using nouveau and did not activate the nvidia restricted drivers though, and I'd recommend disabling the nvidia-current drivers in jockey and then reenabling them and then rebooting just to be sure they are activated.

Changed in nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

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astronouth7303 (astronouth7303) wrote on 2010-04-12:

#24

The bits about the SC4 touchscreen is from a userspace driver I've been developing. It's for another system.

I didn't think I was using the nouveau driver. I wasn't before, it's not in my xorg.conf, and jockey says that nvidia_current is "activated but not currently in use."

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Robert Hooker (sarvatt) wrote on 2010-04-12:

#25

Please disable your onboard graphics in bios and remove your /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and after rebooting you should be able to activate nvidia-current. that looks to be the issue here.

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astronouth7303 (astronouth7303) wrote on 2010-04-12:

#26

I can try that. Disabling my onboard graphics before has caused problems booting up in the kernel.

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astronouth7303 (astronouth7303) wrote on 2010-04-12:

#27

And now my system is broken in strange and horrible ways.

I moved off my xorg.conf, rebooted, and adjusted my BIOS.

After attempting to boot, the kernel printed out traces. At least, I'm reasonably certain it's the kernel.

I restored the BIOS to the previous setting, and attempted to boot again.

I'm not sure what's wrong, but I don't get a splash screen on either output, I can change virtual terminals but none of them display anything. The nvidia card isn't outputing anything. The onboard is just a blank screen. And sshd isn't running.

(I'm using a 9.04 UNR flash drive I have to restore xorg.conf and hopefully get a working system again.)

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astronouth7303 (astronouth7303) wrote on 2010-04-12:

#28

So none of the boot media I have is working.

* Ubuntu 10.04 off hard drive
* UNR 9.04 off flash drive
* Chromium OS off flash drive

The exact failure mode varies mostly by what video mode I set in my BIOS (Auto, Internal, PCIe, or PCI). My video card is PCIe.

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astronouth7303 (astronouth7303) wrote on 2010-04-12:

#29

So through some finangling, I finally got it bootable again. But it now refuses to use video card, always using onboard video even when I have the old xorg.conf.

Bryce Harrington (bryce) on 2010-04-12

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H.-Dirk Schmitt (dirk-computer42) wrote on 2010-04-26: apport information

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Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=de_DE:de:en_US:en
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64
UserGroups: fuse
system:
distro: Ubuntu
codename: lucid
architecture: x86_64
kernel: 2.6.32-21-generic

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Jef (ofthelit) wrote on 2010-09-01:

#35

Everything worked fine for me, but when my laptop completely lost power due to a battery issue, I had no window borders after boot. I get the same error messages when trying those commands. I'm running openSUSE.