Applying proprietary nVidia drivers hangs but manual install works... mostly
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| software-properties (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
When changing a fresh install of Ubuntu 13.04 on an Nvidia MCP-51 based system with geForce 6150 graphics, the Software & Updates hangs at Applying Changes after I try to switch to any of the Proprietary drivers. Once it hung and I just closed and tried again. The second time it greyed out all options, so I assumed it applied successfully and restarted. The third time it just hung again but I was able to cancel and close. The fourth time, running from a terminal, it still hangs on Applying changes... but has no additional output from which to debug.
As a workaround, I am trying to find the NVidia driver package in apt to install manually...
Installing nvidia-173 (as recommended in some forum for this older graphics,) has successfully updated the in-use driver.
Running nvidia-settings says the proprietary driver is not in use and should be configured with nvidia-xconfig
Restarted X and am now in "low-graphics" mode. The "reconfigure graphics" option sticks in an endless loop asking if I want New Default configuration or Backed up configuration.
Continuing in low-graphics mode asks to restart the X server, but then goes to a blank screen and stays.
Switching to TTY1 shows the system noticed a crash and started the crash-reporter, a GUI application that has nowhere to go as X is off.
Manually running nvidia-xconfig and restarting the system... Nvidia proprietary driver is now in use, though Compiz still draws 20-40%CPU for new application loads and slows this significantly.
Repeating the process of: manual apt-get install nvidia-310, nvidia-xconfig, restart.
| Aaron Bouzek (nakarti) wrote | #1 |
installing nvidia-310 has broken all Ubiquity launchers, and the base desktop does not allow direct execution of an application or creation of any links.
I can backdoor into Settings from the "Change desktop background" option but this is no help getting launchers back. nvidia-settings initiated from TTY1 cannot identify the graphical desktop to run on, so I am trying the other driver versions...
304: Same result, though it did not downgrade nvidia-settings-310 to nvidia-settings-304
313-updates: Did replace nvidia-settings-310 with nvidia-
By creating a folder I navigated to xterm and executed nvidia-settings, which says the Nvidia driver is not in use. Software>Additional drivers shows Nouveau is in use
Rolling back to 173, but the graphics performance with Minecraft (my target application) was so low I could not even navigate to quit.