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** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: gnome-control-center
  
  The Bug is repeatable on both x86 + x86_64 Ubuntu 10.04 100% of the
  time.
  
  On a fresh 10.04 install using a Nvidia card, if you try to enable
- desktop effects (i.e compiz) via the appearance menu - i.e click
- 'normal' you get prompted to install the binary Nvidia driver.
+ desktop effects (i.e compiz) via the appearance menu before you have
+ installed the binary Nvidia driver - i.e click 'normal' on the 3d
+ desktop-effects menu you get prompted to install the binary Nvidia
+ driver.
  
  It installs a nvidia driver this, however after rebooting 3D is so slow
  it is completely un-usable - the minimise compiz effect moves about 2fps
  - games are far slower than mesa....
  
  The reason: Is due to the wrong version of the nvidia driver being
  installed - 173.14.22 - this does not work on my card - Nvidia 8500
  
  However : If I install nvidia driver using 'administration' -> 'Hardware
  drivers' - then reboot it is fine - i.e it is installs correct version :
  195.36.
  
  So it is the trigger that installs the driver - by activating compiz
  (desktop-effects)  - that is wrong.
  
  This will cause many new users who just happen to install the driver
  that way to assume that 3D doesn't work on their card.
  
  An easy fix would be for the trigger to just go to the standard menu
  option -  'administration' -> 'Hardware drivers'
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: gnome-control-center 1:2.30.1-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed May  5 21:35:40 2010
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-appearance-properties
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
  ProcEnviron:
-  LANG=en_GB.utf8
-  SHELL=/bin/bash
+  LANG=en_GB.utf8
+  SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gnome-control-center

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: gnome-control-center
  
  The Bug is repeatable on both x86 + x86_64 Ubuntu 10.04 100% of the
  time.
  
  On a fresh 10.04 install using a Nvidia card, if you try to enable
  desktop effects (i.e compiz) via the appearance menu before you have
  installed the binary Nvidia driver - i.e click 'normal' on the 3d
  desktop-effects menu you get prompted to install the binary Nvidia
  driver.
  
  It installs a nvidia driver this, however after rebooting 3D is so slow
  it is completely un-usable - the minimise compiz effect moves about 2fps
  - games are far slower than mesa....
  
  The reason: Is due to the wrong version of the nvidia driver being
  installed - 173.14.22 - this does not work on my card - Nvidia 8500
  
  However : If I install nvidia driver using 'administration' -> 'Hardware
  drivers' - then reboot it is fine - i.e it is installs correct version :
- 195.36.
+ 195.36. If I choose the 'recommended' version
  
  So it is the trigger that installs the driver - by activating compiz
  (desktop-effects)  - that is wrong.
  
+ An easy fix would be for the trigger to just go to the standard menu
+ option -  'administration' -> 'Hardware drivers'  or for it to install
+ what the  'Hardware drivers' menu thinks is the 'recommended' version
+ rather than the top one (173).
+ 
  This will cause many new users who just happen to install the driver
- that way to assume that 3D doesn't work on their card.
+ that way to assume that 3D doesn't work on their card (and possibly just
+ give up) - I imagine this will be the case on Nvidia cards  of my age
+ (8500) +
  
- An easy fix would be for the trigger to just go to the standard menu
- option -  'administration' -> 'Hardware drivers'
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: gnome-control-center 1:2.30.1-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed May  5 21:35:40 2010
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-appearance-properties
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_GB.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gnome-control-center

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Enabling desktop effects before installing Nvidia driver result in wrong version install - 3D unusable
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/576153
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