Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: xorg
I cannot run the nvidia restricted driver.
This appeared when I upgraded Hardy few days ago (April 16th?) and there was a
new xorg system. The problems were:
1. The upgrade did not renamed the existing xorg.conf, but it does not
like the old xorg's, so it starts in low definition mode. The only way
to get back to the standard resolution (1280x800) is to completely
remove the xorg.conf (discovered after a few attempts sicne I read some
comments on bugs related to xorg that were talking about "no xorg
file").
2. I previously was using the nvidia-gls-new restricted driver, but when
I open the "Hardware Drivers" administration tool, no driver is listed.
And in effect the Special Effects cannot be enabled if I try. If you try
to install the restricted driver (again) apparently everything is ok,
but no driver is loaded. If you try to run the NVIDIA X Srver Settings
tool, it complains that yiu apparently do not have an X server running
(since it cannot find the xorg.conf file!) and if you run 'sudo nvidia-
xconfig' of course it creates an xorg.conf that X does not like and you
are back in low resolution mode again! Consequently, you cannot enable
the special effects that require the restricted drivers.
I have a SONY VAIO VGN-SZ3XP/C, Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T7200 2.00 GHz,
2x1024MB SDRAM (533MHz), with NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400 with TurboCache and 128MB.
lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04
Release: 8.04
apt-cache policy xorg
xorg:
Installed: 1:7.3+10ubuntu10
Candidate: 1:7.3+10ubuntu10
Version table:
*** 1:7.3+10ubuntu10 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
I understand that the restricted driver are from nvidia and not from
Ubuntu developers, but I would prefer, if possible, that the X server
does not read the xorg.conf at all, since it does not like them!, or it
builds an xorg.conf for the old fashioned tools that require to know
what is the graphics settings. I have read that the new X discovers the
caracteristics of the graphics envirnment by itself, ad therefore does
not need an xorg.conf: it would be great if it generates an xorg.conf
with the discovered things so that the other tools do work!
Thanks,
Franco Sirovich
** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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[Hardy] the new X server with no xorg.conf does not work with nvidia restricted
drivers
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/219639
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