nvidia driver no longer works
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: xorg
I have the Beta Lucid installed and all was working well with Nvidia and Metacity and the 'normal' Visual Effects setting up until an update late last week. (This of coincided with my installation and attempt to use gnome-do). After the update and or install of gnome-do, I can no longer use the normal or extra Visual Effects options. When I bring up gnome-do and attempt to turn on Docky, I am informed that "Your display is not properly configured for theme and animation support. To use these features you must enable compositing." When I check the System-
version 173 and version current.
The 'version current' is marked green and active.
So it seems that during X Startup the compositing portion of the Window manager is abbending of otherwise not allowing for composite functionality. Something is broken.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: xorg 1:7.5+5ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-20-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Apr 14 19:44:30 2010
DkmsStatus:
nvidia-173, 173.14.22, 2.6.32-20-generic, x86_64: installed
nvidia-current, 195.36.15, 2.6.32-20-generic, x86_64: installed
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100318)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Precision M6300
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
dmi.bios.date: 05/16/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A10
dmi.board.name: 0WY897
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.
dmi.product.name: Precision M6300
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system:
distro: Ubuntu
codename: lucid
architecture: x86_64
kernel: 2.6.32-20-generic
affects: | xorg (Ubuntu) → nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu) |
I booted the laptop, then CTRL-ALT-F1 to get to a vconsole. Then I executed 'stop gdm'. Then I executed:
lsmod | fgrep nvidia
The result was: nvidia 10799466 30
However, executing
modprobe -r nvidia
results in:
FATAL: Module nvidia not found.
There seems to be some kind of an incompatibility between the nvidia module and the module maintenance system?