Mythbuntu

Unable to activate proprietary drivers in installer

Bug #268619 reported by ikesterhaney
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Mythbuntu
Fix Released
High
Mario Limonciello
ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

The Restricted Driver selection does not work. I have a GeForce 7600GS with DVI to a monitor and Component Video to the TV. Mythbuntu keeps defaulting to this "low graphics mode". It does not save my screen settings for my monitor. If I run the Restricted Driver manager, I can select any of 3 Nvidia drivers, however the status does not change to enabled. I have rebooted and retried installing the Nvidia driver several times. Each time it complains about beingset to low graphics mode and will not keep any of the settings I change.

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lp:ubuntu/lucid/ubiquity
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Thomas Mashos (tgm4883) wrote :

What version of Mythbuntu is this?

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ikesterhaney (ikesterhaney) wrote :

This is Mythbuntu 8.10 Alpha4 updated on September 9th.
I am having a lot of trouble setting up the screen resolution.

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Mario Limonciello (superm1) wrote :

This is fixed in alpha5.

Changed in mythbuntu:
status: New → Fix Released
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Mario Limonciello (superm1) wrote :

turns out its not a "full" fix. You'll have to manually run depmod -a once after the driver is installed for it to take effect still. Researching a better solution.

Changed in mythbuntu:
status: Fix Released → In Progress
assignee: nobody → superm1
importance: Undecided → High
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Mario Limonciello (superm1) wrote :

Fix added to ubiquity bzr # 2840. Should be available in all CDs post alpha-6.

Changed in mythbuntu:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Changed in ubiquity:
status: New → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 1.9.19

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ubiquity (1.9.19) intrepid; urgency=low

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Make "Before:" and "After:" strings (displayed next to partition bars)
    translatable.
  * Improve logging of exception tracebacks in find_in_os_prober.
  * Just log an informative message when a device isn't found in os-prober's
    output, not a traceback.
  * KDE frontend:
    - Set layout direction when changing language (LP: #272376).
  * Remove stray closing parenthesis in ubiquity-dm (thanks, Agostino
    Russo).
  * Automatic update of included source packages: partman-base 121ubuntu6,
    partman-ext3 52ubuntu2, partman-reiserfs 41ubuntu2, yaboot-installer
    1.1.12ubuntu2.

  [ Mario Limonciello ]
  * Mythbuntu Frontend:
    - Run the "real" depmod once if we're adding a driver that got
      built on the live cd using DKMS. (LP: #268619)
    - Don't allow "custom" remotes during install (LP: #231823)

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:31:35 +0100

Changed in ubiquity:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Mario Limonciello (superm1)
Changed in mythbuntu:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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