11.10 not working properly with NVIDIA drivers

[blitzd]

There seems to be an issue with 11.10 with regards to the NVIDIA drivers. I don't think this is an NVIDIA issue, as I ran these same drivers with 11.04 and 10.10 and did not have these problems.

1) The 173 driver does not appear to allow any configuration of the display settings. It results in an error message:

Unable to load X Server Display Configuration page:

Failed to query NoScanout for screen 0.

(Bug filed here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nvidia-drivers-ubuntu/+bug/882134)

2) Updating the driver to 'current' will allow configuration of display settings, but the Separate X Screens option does not appear to work for dual monitors, you just get a blank X screen on the 2nd (non-main) monitor. Enabling Xinerama results in a frozen X.

(Bug filed here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-settings/+bug/882143)

Is there anyone NOT experiencing these problems with 11.10/v173 NVIDIA/v-current NVIDIA?

[atwskris]

I am having a similar issue with NVIDA drivers and 11.10

I have tried the latest stable version and also have tried the 285 version.
To even boot in to my system in KDE I have to first delete my xorg.conf file.

I was able to get both monitors working, be it mirrored, by removing all nvidia packages.

Very frustrating as this worked awesome on 11.04 with the 285 driver and dual screens using twinview.

searching the Google resulted in a few attempts how all unsuccessful.

Any ideas, or a fix for that matter, on this would be great! :)

K

[buffalobillion]

I am having this same issue. Dual-screen worked fine for me in 10.10 and 11.04.

[raja.genupula]

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/common-problems-and-solutions-for-nvidia-restricted-drivers-after-ubuntu-810-intrepid-ibex-upgrade.html

[blitzd]

No offense, but, none of that appears to relate to 11.10 or the 173/280 versions of the NVIDIA drivers, or the problems that are posted here.

Edit: I gave up in the end, went back to Windows. Despite filing bug reports there's been no dev comments, and it's just bug after bug after bug - in fact, when trying to unsubscribe from the bug reports, I hit a bug signing into Launchpad...

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Oops!

Sorry, something just went wrong in Launchpad Login Service.

We’ve recorded what happened, and we’ll fix it as soon as possible. Apologies for the inconvenience.
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And then another:

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Timeout error
Sorry, something just went wrong in Launchpad.

We’ve recorded what happened, and we’ll fix it as soon as possible. Apologies for the inconvenience.

Trying again in a couple of minutes might work.
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...That's after a full day of trying to get Ubuntu/Fedora/openSUSE to work with my multiple monitors in some shape or form, all failing...I just can't take any more bugs.

[gwfair]

Same here. Works in 10.10 and 11.04.

[ntlam]

I got the same issue. Either not select xinerama to have the second screen blank or not select xinerama to have the first screen blank and the second one does what ever I do on the first.

Lam

[ntlam]

Problem solved: discard ubuntu and switch to debian squeeze. Then follow this link to install nvidia driver:
http://unixmen.com/linux-tutorials/1904-script-to-install-nividia-driver-in-debian-squeeze-with-one-click

Happy switching.

[hexxamillion]

Any updates on this. I am experiencing the same for dual display on 11.10.

[sandiego69]

What worked for me as I had real problems getting the native resolution etc. with my Geforce card was as follows.

Go into Terminal, give password if required and type :- sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

This will check and download correct driver, reboot and away you go.

[eel]

Uninstalling nvidia-settings and replacing it with older nvida-settings worked for me (Lubuntu 11.10) !

http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/i386/nvidia-settings/download

[zmrubin]

fixed this on my machine by:
-uninstalling the bundled nvidia (173.somethingorother)
-grabbing the newest version from http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-290.10-driver.html . version is 290.10 as of writing
-rebooting into recovery mode
-selecting remount option
-selecting root console
-cd to the directory where the nvidia .run file is stored and run it

it reported a few problems during the install, but now my nvidia-settings manager reports the proper version and allows me to adjust resolution and enable dual monitors

[odror]

What worked for me as I had real problems getting the native resolution etc. with my Geforce card was as follows.

Go into Terminal, give password if required and type :- sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

This will check and download correct driver, reboot and away you go.

Does Xinerama works for you? Because I installed the latest version of the ppa driver with no success. (version 295.20)

[munzerelli]

log out,
log in gnome classic,
install latest nvidia (current-178),
reboot, log back in gnome classic,
set your displays
log into gnome3 or unity
rejoice :)

[odror]

log out,
log in gnome classic,
install latest nvidia (current-178),
reboot, log back in gnome classic,
set your displays
log into gnome3 or unity
rejoice :)


I do not think that this version supports VPDAU.