I can confirm this with my GT 520 card, but when I deactivate the driver, reboot, activate again, and reboot again, everything seems to work fine again, even though Additional Drivers reports that driver is activated but currently not in use. Hopefully this will last.
-- 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/772207 Title: version 173.14.30 driver is buggy for NVidia GeForce FX series Status in Unity: Confirmed Status in “jockey” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-173” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Video card: 01:00.0 0300: 10de:0322 (rev a1) "nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)" Installed ubuntu Natty 11.04 and installed proposed "NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version 173)" nvidia-173 (version 173.14.30-0ubuntu1) After reboot the screen became 640x480 and unity login got stuck. Had to do "apt-get remove nvidia-173". In jockey show this "This driver is activated but not currently in use". nvidia-173 is the recommended driver. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/772207/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
