Nvidia 8600GT vs Ubuntu 11.04

Question

linux

Usually I try to solve the emerging problems that I encounter with my own, no matter how strong.
But in this case, I give up and do not understand anything.

Given:
OS- Ubuntu 11.04
Video card: Nvidia 8600 GT
Kernel: 3.0.0-0300-generic (was 2.6, but in a rush to try everything, just to help - updated to 3 kernels)
- I don’t see much point in debugging the entire machine config, so how everything else started up and I'm happy, happy.

The problem is that I can’t screw the driver in any way, so that they would work.
For any dance with a tambourine, Ubuntu happily tells me that: "The nvidia driver is activated, but is not currently used"

My actions:
1) Tried the standard installation of proprietary firewood through - System =>Administration =>Additional Drivers

2) Of course, the console - sudo apt-get install libvdpau1 nvidia-common nvidia-96\173\current (\ - driver version)

* Compiz costs, but it's not very useful, there are no effects and obvious glitches when moving windows around the desktop.
*Open GL is either installed or not)
Additional exhausts:
************************************ ****************
glxinfo | grep OpenGL ********************************************** ****** xorg.conf Config **************************************** **************** PS Googling gave reason to assume that the solution of this case has no place. Everywhere it is written about the bug itself, but there are no ways to deal with it. PSS If you need additional data, just tell me) Thanks to everyone who read and tried to help.
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 8600 GT/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 280.13
OpenGL shading language version string: 3.30 NVIDIA via Cg compiler
OpenGL extensions:

Answer 1

Good afternoon, in fact, I never used proprietary firewood, at Ubuntu itself on four different computers. The first thing I advise you to download the latest driver from nvidia, the fact is that in ubuntu 11.04 there is a little difference in ABI versions, and this is probably not provided for in proprietary firewood. This driver works 100% on Ubuntu 11.04+Nvidia9100M(kern:2.6.38.8), Ubuntu 10.04+Nvidia9500GT(kern:2.6.38).

Answer 2

I installed the offered firewood with the handles. I reloaded the car-dark screen.
Climbed with life, sit, rubbed xorg.conf - rebooted, entered without problems.
I executed sudo nvidia-xconfig in the console I rebooted
, I go to the jockey - tadadada! =)) - "this driver installed but currently not in use"

Answer 3

nouveau deleted a long time ago =)
sudo apt-get purge xserver-xorg-video-nouveau,
glxinfo claims to run on Nvidia.
I generally heard that this is a glitch of the Jockey.
Maybe wait 4 days and put 11.10 already ...

Answer 4

Headers killed my car =/.
In general, we close the topic. I'll wait for the release of 11.10, I hope the bug will be fixed there, too many people on the network complain about it.
Thanks to everyone who tried to help. The Habr community is responsive.

Answer 5

I have an nvidia 9800M on my laptop. I myself have been struggling with drivers for a long time.
Decided by manual installation of firewood. We climb to the site, download the drivers, then stop the Xs, start up.
But every time, but with every kernel update, the epic began, because. I had to change the drivers as well.
The solution is to use the drivers from the nvidia-96\173\current package,
but before installing it, install the headers:
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`
without them, the drivers will not be installed, because. they are compiled ...
For some reason, the developers did not indicate the dependencies for this package, and without it it will not work.