[gutsy] proprietary driver for NVIDIA accelerated graphics not working (regression from Feisty)

Bug #157265 reported by Dominique Pellé
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Bug Description

I have upgraded from Feisty to Gutsy. After upgrade, my graphic card was not properly recognised, and resolution fell back to 800x600 (yuck) instead of the expected 1440x900 (to match my LCD display).

It used to work find with Feisty so it's a regression in Gutsy.

I had to disable "NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver" in the restricted driver manager to make it work, and when restarting, resolution is then OK (1440x900).

However, without using the proprietary driver, there is no 3D acceleration, and desktop effect is not allowed.

I have a laptop HP Pavilion dv9000, with nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce Go 7600] (rev a1) graphic card.

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Dominique Pellé (dominique-pelle) wrote :

Attached output of "sudo lspci -vvnn"

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Dominique Pellé (dominique-pelle) wrote :

Attached /var/log/Xorg.0.log

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Dominique Pellé (dominique-pelle) wrote :

I have the following log files:
pel@pel-laptop:~$ ls -ltr /var/log/Xorg.*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29549 2007-07-07 11:53 /var/log/Xorg.20.log.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29489 2007-07-22 15:19 /var/log/Xorg.20.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46604 2007-10-25 23:45 /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 43971 2007-10-25 23:46 /var/log/Xorg.0.log

I upgraded to Gutsy today Oct 25, so 2 of those log files are with Gutsy (which does not work with Nvidia driver) and 2 files are with Feisty (which worked with Nvidia driver).

I will attach all 4 files.

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Dominique Pellé (dominique-pelle) wrote :

Attached /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old

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Dominique Pellé (dominique-pelle) wrote :

 Attached /var/log/Xorg.20.log

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Dominique Pellé (dominique-pelle) wrote :

Attached /var/log/Xorg.20.log.old

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Dominique Pellé (dominique-pelle) wrote :

I installed the proprietary driver for NVIDIA via the utility 'envy'.
I think it installed it properly since I see this:

  $ glxinfo | head -4
  name of display: :0.0
  display: :0 screen: 0
  direct rendering: Yes
  server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation

envy deinstalled the previous NVIDIA driver, downloaded the source of the driver, compiled and installed it properly.

However, when I try to enable 'desktop effects' via the top menu, there is a window that pops up asking to "Enable the driver". If I chose yes, it reinstall the NVIDIA driver from Ubuntu packages (which does not work). If I say "Cancel", it refuses to enable the desktop effects saying (please run "desktop effects" again after restarting the computer, when the new graphics driver is active). But as far as I know, it *is* active, it's just not the default driver from Ubuntu packages (faulty) but the driver built by 'envy'.

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Adam Niedling (krychek) wrote :

So is this problem solved already? Can this bug be closed? Would be better if bug summary included the type of your vga card.

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Dominique Pellé (dominique-pelle) wrote :

I upgraded to Ubuntu-8.04 (Hardy Heron) and everything now works fine.
I'd suggest to close the issue.

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Adam Niedling (krychek) wrote :

Thanks for reporting back.

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