Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: restricted-manager
This is fairly long description, and unfortunately the actually bug
occurred last Saturday (though I didn't realize it) so have to recall
the circumstances from memory.
Last Saturday I upgraded from Feisty to Gutsy. It when along fine. On
reboot everything seemed to be working, when I logged in for the first
time the Restricted Driver Manger popped up and informed me (IIRC) that
the driver for my nVidia was ready to use. What I specifically remember
was that the restricted driver manager showed the nvidia driver, showed
it was enabled, and status was "in use". No required action was
indicated. So I tried out Compiz for a bit to see what had changed and
then dropped back to Metacity (which I prefer).
On the following Friday, I wanted to test out Compiz again, and when I
enabled the it, all my Windows failed to have borders. I had seen this
behavior in Feisty, it was related to bug #73544. The missing 'Option
"AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"' was the cause. This was missing from my
xorg.conf again, but I did not manually re-add it this time. In feisty
I do not recall if I manually added it or used the restricted driver
manager to add it.
So the next day, I unchecked the "NVIDIA" accelerated graphics driver"
let it uninstall and then rechecked it without a reboot (I cannot allow
my computer to reboot without the proprietary nvidia driver because the
opensource nv driver just corrupts the display for me; see bug #29975).
During it's reinstalled I noticed it was installing nvidia-glx-new,
instead of nvidia-glx. The restricted driver manager now shows "NVIDIA"
accelerated graphics driver (latest cards)". My xorg.conf now has
'Option "AddARGBVisuals" "True" Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"' In
it.
I'm not sure where the missing lines from my xorg.conf when between
feisty and gutsy, but that may be a different bug. For this bug I'm
claiming that if there was a more appropriate driver for my nvidia card,
the Restricted Driver Manager should have informed me in some way. Set
status in the manager to "new driver available" or perhaps show the
other driver on a different line but unchecked.
** Affects: restricted-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Restricted Manager did not inform me of a different nVidia driver on upgrade
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/157743
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