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[AdrianChallinor <771788@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Phillipe,

This is disingenuous. Do you really think that users care whether it is 
the driver, Jockey, Unity, or anything else that is the fault? The 
simple fact is that it is not working.

I have a GeForce GTX 285, not a cheap card. It works under 10.10. Under 
11.04 I get no 3d graphics, no compiz. Its a VGA card for all practical 
purposes.

There is (or was) a bug report to that effect. Marking that bug as 
invalid with so many people tracking it serves no practical purpose, but 
does infuriate people. As a developer of over 35 years experience, it 
sure infuriated me, so I guess I won't be alone.

This is a very serious issue: Canonical have release an upgrade that 
cripples a lot of peoples PCs. It should have been found in testing and 
I believe is serious enough to have stopped the release. It concerns the 
major supplier of graphics cards, ergo a lot of people will have this 
bug. In my mind, if this happened in my company, we would pull the 
release and stoped further people getting in to problems until it was 
fixed. Otherwise there is a very real danger of alienating users.

My regret is that due to personal circumstances I was not able to do a 
full test on Beta1 or Beta2. Had I been able to do this I would have 
found this earlier.

I still think that marking the bug as "invalid" was the wrong message to 
send out. YMMV


Adrian Challinor
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On 25/05/11 22:25, Philippe Gauthier wrote:
> I have marked the task about the nvidia-graphics-drivers-173 package as
> invalid because this bug is caused by a problem in Jockey. In the
> present report, the graphic drivers are enabled and probably work, but
> the Additional Drivers window still says that the drivers are not being
> used. If you -- or someone else -- have any other problem with the
> proprietary Nvidia drivers, please report it as a different bug. I'm
> sorry that I did not add this comment before because I wanted to limit
> the number of comments that did not directly serve to fix the current
> issue.
>

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