Ubuntu 12.04 Nvidia issue

[vegarend]

Ok, so I've upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 recently and my graphics card is not working. Same old story if you ask me, but I'm not able to fix this one.

Here's my NVIDIA info:

:~$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 18)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 310M] (rev a2)

No available drivers in the 'Additional drivers' app.

I've got the impression that glxinfo should say something different than this, given that opengl is working:

:~$ glxinfo 
name of display: :1.0
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":1.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":1.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":1.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":1.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":1.0".
Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual or fbconfig

Tried manually installing drivers from nVidia, but no luck. If i update the xorg.conf i get a desktop with 640x480 max resolution, above diagnostics stays the same :/

Any thoughts, comments or ideas are appreceated

[kc1di]

There is a bug with compiz and Nvidia. see here:http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1971463

solution for now is use the open source driver for your nvidia card.

[vegarend]

Thx for the quick reply.

The post you refer to says that there are problems with proprietary drivers. I've seen this before, and have stuck with an open source alternative as it has had better performance in my case. My problem now is that I seem to have no hw acceleration either way

Since I am not up to speed in this topic:
- Are there alternative open source drivers for graphics?
- If so, is it worth testing our should I stick with what I've been dealt from 12.04?

[vegarend]

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[Axxon95]

Vegarend, I PMed you something that might help.

[vegarend]

Tried booting with nomodeset for disabling KMS, but it just resulted in lower screen resolution.

[mörgæs]

Vegarend, I PMed you something that might help.

Please post suggestions in the open as this will help other Nvidia users.

[vegarend]

Please post suggestions in the open as this will help other Nvidia users.

Suggestions were:

1) Install NVIDIA driver via repository: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMi3-2MyBtQ

2) Install driver from NVIDIA webpage

Two good suggestions that has worked for me in the past, but not this time.

I've had both proprietary and open source drivers working in previous Ubuntu's on this machine.

[vegarend]

Ok, looking into the glxinfo issue I found this debian thread:

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=73028

Installed bubmlebee using this guide:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bumblebee

Problem solved

Summary:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bumblebee/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install bumblebee bumblebee-nvidia

Don't know if it had any impact, but before installing bumblebee I removed NVIDIA stuff as well:

sudo apt-get purge nvidia*
sudo nvidia-uninstall

[Sepero]

Ok, looking into the glxinfo issue I found this debian thread:

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=73028

Installed bubmlebee using this guide:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bumblebee

Problem solved

Summary:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bumblebee/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install bumblebee bumblebee-nvidia

Don't know if it had any impact, but before installing bumblebee I removed NVIDIA stuff as well:

sudo apt-get purge nvidia*
sudo nvidia-uninstall

I have an Nvidia Geforce GT 630M, on an Asus laptop. Thanks, This worked great for me.