Ubuntu nvidia driver
Jockey is telling me that I'm not using the recommended nvidia driver, even though I'm pretty sure that I am. This was a particularly annoying bug because I discovered it while trying to recover from what was probably a heat-induced slow-down of video.
Apparently, the problem is visible here in the update-alternatives:
root@potato:/var/log# update-alternatives --get-selections | grep nvidia gl_conf manual /usr/lib/nvidia-current/ld.so.conf root@potato:/var/log# update-alternatives --config gl_conf There are 3 choices for the alternative gl_conf (providing /etc/ld.so.conf.d/GL.conf). Selection Path Priority Status ------------------------------------------------------------ 0 /usr/lib/nvidia-current/ld.so.conf 9700 auto mode 1 /usr/lib/mesa/ld.so.conf 500 manual mode 2 /usr/lib/nvidia-173/ld.so.conf 9620 manual mode * 3 /usr/lib/nvidia-current/ld.so.conf 9700 manual mode Press enter to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number: root@potato:/var/log#
nvidia-current is listed twice. So jockey says this:
root@potato:/var/log# jockey-text -l xorg:nvidia_173 - NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use) xorg:nvidia_current - NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (Proprietary, Enabled, Not in use)
I'm expecting output that looks more like this:
root@weasel:~# jockey-text -l /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:57: GtkWarning: could not open display warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning) xorg:nvidia_173 - NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use) xorg:nvidia_96 - NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use) xorg:nvidia_current - NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (Proprietary, Enabled, In use)
Maybe I just need to make sure that the "auto mode" is selected. Here are the alternatives from a working system:
root@weasel:~# update-alternatives --config gl_conf There are 2 choices for the alternative gl_conf (providing /etc/ld.so.conf.d/GL.conf). Selection Path Priority Status ------------------------------------------------------------ * 0 /usr/lib/nvidia-current/ld.so.conf 9700 auto mode 1 /usr/lib/mesa/ld.so.conf 500 manual mode 2 /usr/lib/nvidia-current/ld.so.conf 9700 manual mode Press enter to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number:
It is still listed twice, but auto mode is selected instead of manual.
Darn, that didn't help any:
root@potato:/var/log# jockey-text -l xorg:nvidia_173 - NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use) xorg:nvidia_current - NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (Proprietary, Enabled, Not in use)
A solution from the forums is to use synaptic to perform re-install of the nvidia drivers. That seems to avoid the bug with jockey.
