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[Aldo Maggi <626918@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

I've installed maverick a few days ago and have noticed that no third party driver was being used for my graphic card:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5500] (rev a1)

So, I've looked for nvidia-173 package because that is the driver which is being used for my card by Debian Squeeze which is installed on another partition and in fact looking into /usr/share/doc/nvidia-173/README.txt.gz you can read, among the supported cards, the following line:
GeForce FX 5500 0x0326

So I've installed nvidia-173 but the "additional drivers" window says
that nvidia-173 is "active but at the moment is not being used".

lspci -vvvv says that the kernel driver is nvidia, but Xorg.0.log shows
that Xorg ends up using the vesa driver.

So I've forced Xorg to use the nvidia driver creating xorg.conf by means of nvidia-xconfig, but if I run startx I get the following error:
.....
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules/nvidia_drv.so: undefined symbol: miEmptyData
(EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules/nvidia_drv.so
(EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (loader failed, 7)
(EE) No drivers available.

Thanks for your work and commitment.

aldo

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: nvidia-173 173.14.27-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-19.28-generic 2.6.35.3
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-19-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
.proc.driver.nvidia.agp.card:
 Fast Writes: 	 Supported
 SBA: 		 Supported
 AGP Rates: 	 4x 2x 1x 
 Registers: 	 0x1f000217:0x00000000
.proc.driver.nvidia.agp.host.bridge:
 Host Bridge: 	 PCI device 1106:3148
 Fast Writes: 	 Not Supported
 SBA: 		 Supported
 AGP Rates: 	 4x 2x 1x 
 Registers: 	 0x1f000207:0x00000000
.proc.driver.nvidia.agp.status: Status: 	 Disabled
.proc.driver.nvidia.version:
 NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module  173.14.27  Tue Jul 13 20:39:52 PDT 2010
 GCC version:  gcc version 4.4.5 20100824 (prerelease) (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.4.4-9ubuntu2)
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Aug 30 17:18:15 2010
DkmsStatus:
 nvidia-173, 173.14.27, 2.6.35-19-generic, i686: installed 
 nvidia-173, 173.14.27, 2.6.35-17-generic, i686: built
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100803.1)
Lsusb:
 Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 13fd:2040 Initio Corporation 
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: Olidata S.p.A. To Be Filled By O.E.M.
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-19-generic root=UUID=95a2cfa0-3d7e-4a8c-ae2d-ff4be25f8d8b ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=it_IT.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-173
dmi.bios.date: 05/04/2004
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 1007.002
dmi.board.name: P4VP-MX
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: Rev 1.xx
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr1007.002:bd05/04/2004:svnOlidataS.p.A.:pnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rnP4VP-MX:rvrRev1.xx:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.name: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.product.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.sys.vendor: Olidata S.p.A.
nvidia-settings:
 
system:
 distro:             Ubuntu
 codename:           maverick
 architecture:       i686
 kernel:             2.6.35-19-generic

** Affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers-173 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386 maverick

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