Nvidia driver Enabled but not In Use

Can you please do

  jockey-gtk --list --debug | tee /tmp/jockey.txt

in a Terminal and attach /tmp/jockey.txt here? Replace jockey-gtk with jockey-kde if you are using Kubuntu.

Also, please give me the output of "dpkg -l nvidia-glx*". Thank you!

Ok, after running the first command, jockey.txt contains a single line,

kmod:nvidia_new - NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (latest cards) (restricted, Enabled, Not in use)

The second command gives me

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-============================-=======================
ii nvidia-glx 1:96.43.05+2.6.24.12-16.34 NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x/X.Org driver
un nvidia-glx-legacy <none> (no description available)
un nvidia-glx-new <none> (no description available)
un nvidia-glx-src <none> (no description available)

Whoops, sorry. Wrong routing of the debugging output. Can you please try again:

  jockey-gtk --list --debug 2>&1 | tee /tmp/jockey.txt

Thanks!

Ok, here it is, attached.

Very weird--I am having the same problem. Jockey reports that the driver is enabled but not in use(Nvidia-glx-new)--glxgears reports a bit over !0.000fps so I know the driver is working. jockey.txt & dpkg -l nvidia-glx* included....

dean@linux:~$ dpkg -l nvidia-glx*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
pn nvidia-glx <none> (no description available)
un nvidia-glx-dev <none> (no description available)
un nvidia-glx-leg <none> (no description available)
un nvidia-glx-leg <none> (no description available)
ii nvidia-glx-new 169.12+2.6.24. NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x/X.Org 'new' driver
ii nvidia-glx-new 169.12+2.6.24. NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x/X.Org 'new' driver
un nvidia-glx-src <none> (no description available)

Opps--that was 10,000fps 8600GT card.

Ah, so the problem is that the recommended driver for your system is nvidia-glx-new, but you have nvidia-glx. So the correct way to show this would actually be "disabled" and "not in use". I'll fix this.

Fixed upstream:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~jockey-hackers/jockey/trunk/revision/281

Explanation of the patch: Currently, NvidiaHandler's enabled() method only tests if xorg.conf has "nvidia" selected as driver. However, this is not enough, since there are three different handlers for the drivers (legacy/new/standard). It additionally needs to check if the corresponding package is installed and if the module is not blacklisted, which is what the ancestor method ModulePackageHandler.enabled() does.

accepted in hardy-proposed, please test.

Here's a little test i did with Martin.

I'm running updated Hardy with nvidia-glx-new and jockey 0.3.3-0ubuntu8
http://pfragoso.org/ubuntu/jockey1.png

Then i switched to nvidia-glx and using jockey 0.3.3-0ubuntu8
http://pfragoso.org/ubuntu/jockey2.png

In the end using nvidia-glx and jockey 0.3.3-0ubuntu7
http://pfragoso.org/ubuntu/jockey3.png

Hope this helps.

Thanks, Pedro! This demonstrates the fix nicely.

This bug was fixed in the package jockey - 0.3.3-0ubuntu9

---------------
jockey (0.3.3-0ubuntu9) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Upload fixes from hardy-proposed to intrepid.

jockey (0.3.3-0ubuntu8) hardy-proposed; urgency=low

  * fglrx.py: Do not override already installed third-party fglrx driver with
    --check-composite. (LP: #221968)
  * debian/control: Updated Vcs-Bzr: to point to the hardy branch.
  * XorgDriverHandler, nvidia, fglrx: Set identifiers for newly created
    sections, they are invalid without one. Thanks to Laszlo Pandy!
    (LP: #218478)
  * nvidia.py: Fix "enabled" handling: check if the package is installed and
    module not blacklisted. (LP: #216650)
  * OSLib.open_app(): Wait until the subprocess returned, so that we can check
    the system state afterwards. (prerequisite for change below)
  * jockey/ui.py, --check-composite: Re-check the system after attempting to
    enable the driver, and only signal success (exit with 0) if the driver was
    actually enabled. Otherwise, cancelling installation would invalidly
    signal success to the caller. (LP: #208026)

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Mon, 05 May 2008 20:49:10 +0200

Copied to hardy-updates.

This bug has come back in Lucid...

jockey-gtk/lucid uptodate 0.5.7-0ubuntu1
nvidia-current/lucid uptodate 190.53-0ubuntu14

Same message - driver is shown as installed but listed as not in use, despite the fact that it IS in use.

OpenGL renderer string: Quadro FX 880M/PCI/SSE2

I can confirm it, Kubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04

@Tommy_CZ
You're experiencing bug #552653 , not the one described in this bug report