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[Linuxexperte <andea.koeth@xxxxxxxx>]

hi people,

can confirm this here in LinuxMint 11.

A few days ago, a new kernel arrived: 2.6.38-11. Since this kernel, the
proprietary nvidia-driver has come back to work. But jockey-output still
is a fals-output, since it reports, that this driver "is activated but
not in use". But this is - as I just stated - a wrong output! This
driver works.

This can be checked through several ways:

first way: open your Nvdia-settings and check the version there.

second way: open your terminal and type in this:

/usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p

The Output of this should look something similar to the one here:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/37084/nvidia-driver-activated-but-
currently-not-in-use

The third trick is this: again open your Terminal and type in this:

sudo lshw -C display

The Output of this again should also look something similar to the
output shown on the link above. So you see, the driver works, but jockey
still reports a wrong output. So it comes clearer now, that this is a
wrong stating of jockey-gtk and that we are faced with a bug in jockey-
gtk which needs to be fixed as it can lead to confusion.

Greetings
Linuxexperte

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/771788

Title:
  nVidia driver activated and apparently being used but reported as not
  being used by jockey-gtk

Status in Jockey driver manager:
  Confirmed
Status in NVIDIA Drivers Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “jockey” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-173” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  I'm running Unity without major issues and apparently using the nvidia
  proprietary current driver, but in System Settings -> Hardware ->
  Additional driver the nvidia driver shows as activated but not being
  used.

  I'm attaching xorg.conf, I also use a dual monitor setup but I think
  this is not relevant.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: jockey-gtk 0.9.2-0ubuntu5
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Apr 27 14:43:31 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
  MachineType: Dell Inc. Precision WorkStation T3400
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/tcsh
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=UUID=dadc68cb-c217-4aef-a751-ba0b61137c4a ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: jockey
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-01 (26 days ago)
  dmi.bios.date: 06/04/2009
  dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: A09
  dmi.board.name: 0TP412
  dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.chassis.type: 7
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA09:bd06/04/2009:svnDellInc.:pnPrecisionWorkStationT3400:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0TP412:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct7:cvr:
  dmi.product.name: Precision WorkStation T3400
  dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

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