Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: nvidia-glx
The "nv" driver works fine, but after installing - via the Restricted
Drivers Manager in Feisty - the binary NVidia driver, progressive
breakage occurs, as follows. Note: this is on a fresh install of Feisty,
on a formatted partition.
1. After the intial restart, things are fine. glx-gears and a 3D FPS game work
great.
2. After another restart, the resolution is no longer detected correctly (even
though it was before!). It is now 800x600 (it should be 1024x768), and cannot
be set higher in the system->Preferences->screen resolution
3. After yet another restart, the resolution is now set to 640x480 (and again,
cannot be modified in the preferences), and what is much worse, metacity is not
loaded. By chance I recognized the symptoms of this, and knew that I should run
'metacity' in a terminal. This fixes it - but it needs to be done on every time
the system is booted! NOTE: I did *not* do anything with
compiz/beryl/desktop-effects, nothing like that. I can see no reason that
suddenly metacity would not be loaded by default.
Dis-enabling the NVidia binary driver in the Restricted Drivers Manager
and restarting gets a working system - correct resolution, working
metacity (but of course the 3D FPS game is unplayable).
My hardware is an FX5200. Note: This computer has worked with 5.10,
6.06, 6.10 with the NVidia binary driver with no problems.
** Affects: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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Nvidia binary driver causes progressive breakage
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/107947
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