It affects my system at work as well. Both with regular Xorg stack as well as
with the edgers' repo.
I am running with the 173.x drivers which have the common "active... but not in
use" problem as others have mentioned here before. Also, the standard Xorg
configuration nVIDIA generates does not correctly recognizes the PCI address of
the card so I had to comment that line out just to boot Ubuntu with the nVIDIA
drivers (either that or deleting the xorg.conf file did the trick). GL feels
very slow too although glxgears reports FPS to be above 1,000. lsmod does show
"nvidia 8107272 36" BTW.
Ubuntu Classic *(with effects) does work, while Unity does not. I do not see
menus and I see desktop icons appearing and disappearing very quickly. Not
usable at all running Unity.
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Unity support test:
/usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: Quadro PCI-E Series/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 2.1.2 NVIDIA 173.14.30
Not software rendered: yes
Not blacklisted: yes
GLX fbconfig: yes
GLX texture from pixmap: yes
GL npot or rect textures: yes
GL vertex program: yes
GL fragment program: yes
GL vertex buffer object: yes
GL framebuffer object: yes
GL version is 1.4+: yes
Unity supported: yes
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dpkg -l | grep -i nvidia
ii nvidia-173 173.14.30-0ubuntu1
NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and
VDPAU library
ii nvidia-common 0.2.30
Find obsolete NVIDIA drivers
ii nvidia-settings 275.09.07-0ubuntu1~edgers~natty
Tool of configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
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lspci |grep -i nvid
40:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV37GL [Quadro PCI-E
Series] (rev a2)
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# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 275.09.07 (buildd@charichuelo) Wed Jun 15
20:08:12 UTC 2011
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder58) Sat Apr 16 22:49:04
PDT 2011
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
# HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Samsung SyncMaster"
HorizSync 30.0 - 81.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
# HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
Identifier "Monitor1"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Samsung SyncMaster"
HorizSync 30.0 - 81.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
#BusID "PCI:40:0:0"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "Quadro PCI-E Series"
EndSection
Section "Device"
#BusID "PCI:40:0:0"
Identifier "Device1"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "Quadro PCI-E Series"
Screen 1
EndSection
Section "Screen"
# Removed Option "TwinView" "0"
# Removed Option "metamodes" "CRT-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "1"
Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0"
Option "metamodes" "CRT-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, CRT-1:
nvidia-auto-select +0+900"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Device1"
Monitor "Monitor1"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "0"
Option "metamodes" "CRT-1: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
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