additional drivers fails to properly install nvidia driver

Bug #1513229 reported by keepitsimpleengr
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Bug Description

After experiencing display errors with 352 (default at install), I used additional drivers to test the 340 driver.

After reboot, the screen resolution was maximum 800 x 600. After reverting back to 352, remained at 800 x 600.

Normal/expected screen resolution is 2560 x 1600.

Running sudo nvidia-xconfig made no difference.

Running gksudo nvidia-settings presented and unrecognizable nivida-settngs screen.

Copying a working xorg.conf file from another dist on this computer changed the resolution to 1280 × 960

ljohnson@KISE-005:~/Desktop$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 15.10
Release: 15.10

ljohnson@KISE-005:~/Desktop$ apt-cache policy software-properties-gtk
software-properties-gtk:
  Installed: 0.96.13
  Candidate: 0.96.13
  Version table:
 *** 0.96.13 0
        500 http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/ubuntu/ wily/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: software-properties-gtk 0.96.13
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-25.26-generic 3.19.8-ckt2
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-25-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Wed Nov 4 13:13:58 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-06-15 (141 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: software-properties
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to wily on 2015-10-22 (13 days ago)

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History: This was a standard basic installation of Xubuntu 15.04 upgraded to 15.10. It uses two nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti in SLI driving a HP LP3065 2560x1600 monitor. The xorg.conf used from working distribution is attached. The xorg.conf generated by "nvidia-xconf -sli=Auto" is attached as xorg.conf.backup.

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# ls -lt var/log/ | grep Xorg.0.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 74353 Nov 4 13:58 Xorg.0.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 74942 Nov 4 12:47 Xorg.0.log.old

from var/log/Xorg.0.log [ 22.562] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
[ 22.562] (II) Loading /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xorg/extra-modules/nvidia_drv.so
[ 22.562] (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
[ 22.562] compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
[ 22.562] Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[ 22.562] (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
[ 22.562] (II) Failed to load module "nvidia" (already loaded, 32688)
[ 22.562] (II) LoadModule: "nouveau"

[root@KISE-005 xorg]# ls -lt /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xorg/
total 4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 Nov 4 12:45 extra-modules -> /etc/alternatives/x86_64-linux-gnu_xorg_extra_modules

# ls -lt etc/alternatives/ | grep x86_64-linux-gnu_xorg_extra_modules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Nov 4 12:45 x86_64-linux-gnu_xorg_extra_modules -> /usr/lib/nvidia-340/xorg

# ls -lt usr/lib/nvidia-340/xorg/
total 20140
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Sep 16 08:45 libglx.so -> libglx.so.340.93
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12295432 Aug 19 16:27 libglx.so.340.93
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8325856 Aug 19 16:06 nvidia_drv.so

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keepitsimpleengr (keepitsimpleengineer) wrote :

Work around...

Reinstalled 4.2 linux kernel from Synaptic.

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Do you happen to have a copy of your /var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log file with information about your upgrade from Vivid to Wily? This is likely a duplicate of bug 1509305.

Changed in software-properties (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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keepitsimpleengr (keepitsimpleengineer) wrote :

Fortunately this is a little used and only slightly customized system, hope this helps...

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for software-properties (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in software-properties (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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