[10de:08a0] nvidia isn't loading

[Alex Launi]

nvidia isn't loading on current oneiric and nouveau is getting used instead. This started happening in the past few days, it worked fine in the alpha 2 time frame.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: nvidia-current 275.09.07-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-5.6-generic 3.0.0-rc7
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-5-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,gtkloader,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,move,imgpng,unitymtgrabhandles,compiztoolbox,grid,resize,gnomecompat,place,regex,animation,vpswitch,mousepoll,snap,session,expo,workarounds,wall,ezoom,staticswitcher,fade,scale,unityshell]
CompositorRunning: None
Date: Thu Jul 14 13:55:47 2011
DistUpgraded: Log time: 2011-06-27 11:24:51.470669
DistroCodename: oneiric
DistroVariant: ubuntu
GraphicsCard:
 nVidia Corporation Device [10de:08a0] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Apple Computer Inc. Device [106b:00c2]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
MachineType: Apple Inc. MacBookPro7,1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-5-generic root=UUID=c1f1bd83-c7aa-402f-9a4c-6c1ebc2f681c ro quiet splash reboot=pci vt.handoff=7
Renderer: Unknown
SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers
UnitySupportTest:
 Error: command ['/usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test', '-p'] failed with exit code -11: Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
 Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
 Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-06-27 (17 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 03/25/10
dmi.bios.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.bios.version: MBP71.88Z.0039.B05.1003251322
dmi.board.name: Mac-F222BEC8
dmi.board.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: Mac-F222BEC8
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAppleInc.:bvrMBP71.88Z.0039.B05.1003251322:bd03/25/10:svnAppleInc.:pnMacBookPro7,1:pvr1.0:rvnAppleInc.:rnMac-F222BEC8:rvr:cvnAppleInc.:ct10:cvrMac-F222BEC8:
dmi.product.name: MacBookPro7,1
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: Apple Inc.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.4+bzr20110606-0ubuntu4
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu13
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.26-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.11~1-0ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental 7.11~1-0ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.11~1-0ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.2-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.15.0-3ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110411+8378443-1

[Vidar Braut Haarr (vhaarr+launchpad)]

Please take a look at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11049764, I think we're all having the same issue.

[Removed by request (removed3425744)]

The solution for me was to blacklist nouveau in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf. But because this entry was already in /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-graphics-drivers.conf I think this file don't get loaded.

[PhantmKllr (phantmkllr)]

I'm still having this problem, and I'm positive that I have the latest updates. I'm not sure what's wrong anymore...

[Kaj Munsterhjelm - BluesKaj (kaj)]

I received the advice about blacklisting the xserver-xorg-video-nouveau driver in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf , from yofel at ubuntu+1 # on irc.freenode.org . I did this at the tty as root in the recovery kernel , and this workaround works for my setup. Previous to the workaround I reinstalled the nvidia-current driver , sudo apt-get install --reinstall nvidia-current . Then I did, sudo nvidia-xconfig to set xorg.conf . Not sure if the nvidia reinstall is absolutely necessary, but nvidia-xconfig is advisable.

[3vi1 (launchpad-net-eternaldusk)]

I updated my sons computer to oneiric from natty yesterday so that he could do some alpha testing and ran into the same problem (i.e. it was using nouveau after the upgrade, but was working fine with nvidia-current before the upgrade). His system has a GTX465 in it.

I --reinstalled nvidia-current, but it didn't have any effect (still boots to unity2d and nouveau shows in lsmod). I also tried adding nouveau and lbm-nouveau to the blacklist.conf, but it had no effect either. As sworddragon mentioned, these were already blacklisted in the nvidia-graphics-drivers.conf. So, that workaround doesn't appear to be working for me. Maybe I need to try the reinstall again now that it's in the other blacklist (will try tonight)...

Is the duplicate status of this report correct? I probably just don't know enough about plymouth and the boot process to understand why the right drivers don't load when the DM starts.

[Marcelo (marcelo-dacruz)]

This issue is still valid IMHO. I was only able to fix it by doing the following hack:

* renaming /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so to /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so.backup
* creating a link /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so --> /usr/lib/nvidia-current/xorg/libglx.so

Apparently, Xorg is not honoring nvidia drivers. i tried several fixes proposed in forums, such as blacklisting nouveau (I even removed it completely), but Xorg loads the incorrect GLX module at startup, no matter how hard I tried to point it to the nvidia driver in xorg.conf