Hello everybody! I installed the official release from the live CD as of April 25th. The restricted driver is working properly and the special effects do work. The report can be closed, as far as I am concerned! Thanks to all Ubuntu developers, Franco Sirovich
Franco Sirovich wrote: > 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 > > -- [Hardy] the new X server with no xorg.conf does not work with nvidia restricted drivers https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/219639 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
