[Bug 1044725] Re: Additional Drivers is empty for nvidia [Quantal]

2012-09-03 Thread Martin Pitt
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1033222 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1033222 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1033222 NVidia driver in Quantal not compatible with X.org/kernel -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1044725] Re: Additional Drivers is empty for nvidia [Quantal]

2012-09-03 Thread Doug McMahon
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1033222 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1033222 Don't see what the connection is, nvidia-current 304.43-0ubuntu2 is quite compatible, just installed it At least here the issue is ubuntu-drivers-common which seems to 'think' nvidia-current is only

[Bug 1044725] Re: Additional Drivers is empty for nvidia [Quantal]

2012-09-02 Thread LostinSpacetime
What is exactly the problem if one manually installs nvidia-current? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1044725 Title: Additional Drivers is empty for nvidia [Quantal] To manage

[Bug 1044725] Re: Additional Drivers is empty for nvidia [Quantal]

2012-09-02 Thread Dave Lentz
@lostinspacetime: the problem is that one has to know that s/he should do that (and how to do that). New(er) users and Ubuntu users that have always used jockey/Additional Drivers may not know to do that and then they would not be aware of the possibility of using the proprietary Nvidia driver.

[Bug 1044725] Re: Additional Drivers is empty for nvidia [Quantal]

2012-09-02 Thread Doug McMahon
At least here, as mentioned, the issue seemed to begin when nvidia-current* was set for multiple api's So to give a little test went edited /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_quantal_restricted_binary-amd64_Packages in the nvidia-current section removed the multiple, leaving