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nvidia-graphics-drivers-173 package

Why does nvidia-173 have a broken dependency in precise/12.04?

Asked by Jason Rennie

Both 295.40 and 295.49 nvidia binary drivers seg fault when I try to use them with my GeForce 7300 SE. I'd like to try the nvidia-173 as I believe that is what I used with Ubuntu 10.10 w/o trouble. But, it lists an unavailable package, "xorg-video-abi-10" as a dependency. Is this a known bug? Or, would nvidia-173 not work on 12.04 even if this dependency issue were fixed?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a; uname -a; dpkg -l | grep nvidia

Thanks

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Jason Rennie (jrennie) said : 		#2

Sure thing. Note that I had to remove nvidia binary drivers to get graphics working with the nouveau driver.

$ sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a; uname -a; dpkg -l | grep nvidia
[sudo] password for jason:
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: G72 [GeForce 7300 SE/7200 GS]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: a1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0
       resources: irq:18 memory:fa000000-faffffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:fb000000-fbffffff memory:fc000000-fc01ffff
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
Linux pinot 3.2.0-24-generic #37-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 25 08:43:22 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
ii nvidia-common 1:0.2.44 Find obsolete NVIDIA drivers
ii nvidia-settings 295.33-0ubuntu1 Tool of configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

sudo apt-get --purge remove nvidia-settings
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

Reboot to test

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Jason Rennie (jrennie) said : 		#4

I get a seg fault in the Xorg log (as I've gotten before). I just created a bug for the seg fault issue: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/999431

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Jason Rennie (jrennie) said : 		#5

I consider the link to bug #948053 to be the answer to my question.