Sitsofe, In my personal experience just clicking on "Enable" in Restricted Drivers Manager installs nvidia-glx from the repos and the user is unable to stop this installation. So if you have the NVidia binary driver installed Xorg fails on restart giving an API mismatch. This would suggest that RDM is not leaving things alone if the NVidia binary driver is installed. I personally haven't updated my drivers for some time but I faced this very issue in Feisty and Gutsy on 2 different machines as well as having helped solve this issue for other users on IRC who have reported the same behaviour. I don't have a spare machine to try it on at the moment as my desktop is very busy so I can't install new drivers with RDM from the repos and restart Xorg. However if you have a spare machine you should be able to verify the issue simply by installing the NVidia binary driver and then going into RDM in gnome and clicking on "Enable" for the NVidia driver. If you experience the same problem as myself and others it will automatically install the nvidia- glx drivers over the top of the Nvidia binary drivers and give an API mismatch on restarting Xorg (either /etc/init.d/gdm restart or reboot).
It could be a recent update may have already fixed this as I have not updated for sometime so I cannot confirm either way, I raised the bug after another user experienced this issue today which lead to a discussion on freenode between myself, the user and jdong. Jdong requested that I enter the bug just to make sure someone was aware of it. Iagree that users who stray from the repos are responsible for any problems which may occur, however, if RDM is still installing repo drivers over the top of the Nvidia binary driver with no exit route for the user, then this is anissue which I feel needs to be resolved. A simple check for the nvidia-installer script in /usr/bin should in most cases be enough for RDM to know the binary driver is installed. If a user has removed this install script after installer the Nvidia driver then there is little to be done and they can't expect things to work properly. Since the same scriptis required for uninstalling the driver it should not be deleted by the user in the first place. Finally (and this is not a criticism of anyone, it just the reality of the situation) even if a user has strayed from the repos, we still need to actively support them where and whenever possible and indeed this happens. It would be unpractical to turn everyone away who asks for help if they have made changes to their system via non "apt" routes, it is very common for people to ask for help in these situations both on the forums and on irc and I have yet to see anyone turn these users away for breaking "best practise" protocols. I need only mention the dreaded word "Automatix" for anyone who has provided a support role in either environments (forums or irc) to see this is true. So it is fine to say in theory that people moving outside of the repos are responsible for thir own problems, but in reality it does become a support overhead as being a community we naturally try to help each other whenever possible. This is a good thing though, as it is a swing away from the RTFM culture of the past decade and makes the community and distro much more welcoming to new users, which is what we all want at the end of the day. -- Restricted Drivers Manager and NVidia https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/131852 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
