hi people, can confirm this here in LinuxMint 11.
A few days ago, a new kernel arrived: 2.6.38-11. Since this kernel, the proprietary nvidia-driver has come back to work. But jockey-output still is a fals-output, since it reports, that this driver "is activated but not in use". But this is - as I just stated - a wrong output! This driver works. This can be checked through several ways: first way: open your Nvdia-settings and check the version there. second way: open your terminal and type in this: /usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p The Output of this should look something similar to the one here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/37084/nvidia-driver-activated-but- currently-not-in-use The third trick is this: again open your Terminal and type in this: sudo lshw -C display The Output of this again should also look something similar to the output shown on the link above. So you see, the driver works, but jockey still reports a wrong output. So it comes clearer now, that this is a wrong stating of jockey-gtk and that we are faced with a bug in jockey- gtk which needs to be fixed as it can lead to confusion. Greetings Linuxexperte -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to jockey in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/771788 Title: nVidia driver activated and apparently being used but reported as not being used by jockey-gtk Status in Jockey driver manager: Confirmed Status in NVIDIA Drivers Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “jockey” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-173” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: I'm running Unity without major issues and apparently using the nvidia proprietary current driver, but in System Settings -> Hardware -> Additional driver the nvidia driver shows as activated but not being used. I'm attaching xorg.conf, I also use a dual monitor setup but I think this is not relevant. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: jockey-gtk 0.9.2-0ubuntu5 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Apr 27 14:43:31 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007) MachineType: Dell Inc. Precision WorkStation T3400 PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US:en LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/tcsh ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=UUID=dadc68cb-c217-4aef-a751-ba0b61137c4a ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: jockey UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-01 (26 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 06/04/2009 dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.bios.version: A09 dmi.board.name: 0TP412 dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.chassis.type: 7 dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA09:bd06/04/2009:svnDellInc.:pnPrecisionWorkStationT3400:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0TP412:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct7:cvr: dmi.product.name: Precision WorkStation T3400 dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/jockey/+bug/771788/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
