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nvidia-common package

  1. Precise (12.04)
  2. Bug #873058
  3. Comment #25

Comment 25 for bug 873058

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D. Hugh Redelmeier (hugh-mimosa) wrote : Re: Jockey fail to install binary ati driver (post release) version

@ Martin Pitt #23

Is your proposed fix to nvidia-common supposed to fix jockey's handling of installing proprietary AMD drivers (fglrx)? That seems rather counter-intuitive.

I have a fresh AMD64 installation of Oneiric, plus all updates (but no -proposed). Jockey fails with the message "sorry installation of this driver failed" "please have a look at the log file for details: /var/log/jockey.log". I have no nVidia hardware.

The jockey log is somewhat opaque. It does include a python traceback in nVidia code:
2011-12-28 16:29:59,976 DEBUG: NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (post-release updates) availability undetermined, adding to pool
2011-12-28 16:29:59,977 DEBUG: Could not instantiate Handler subclass __builtin__.NvidiaDriverBase from name NvidiaDriverBase
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jockey/detection.py", line 962, in get_handlers
    inst = obj(backend)
TypeError: __init__() takes exactly 3 arguments (2 given)
2011-12-28 16:29:59,987 WARNING: modinfo for module nvidia_current_updates failed: ERROR: modinfo: could not find module nvidia_current_updates