Public bug reported:
I installed the ppa and updated to the lastes nvidia driver, but
strangly the system is still using the old 295 driver, as can be seen
from attachment.
What is missing or wrong ?
nvidia settings shows that
giuliano@saturn:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
Release: 12.04
giuliano@saturn:~$ uname -a
Linux saturn 3.2.0-29-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 27 17:03:23 UTC 2012
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updatese
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current nvidia-settings
sudo shutdown -r now
.....
.... reboot.......
....
giuliano@saturn:~$ apt-cache policy nvidia-current
nvidia-current:
Installato: 304.43-0ubuntu1~precise~xup1
Candidato: 304.43-0ubuntu1~precise~xup1
Tabella versione:
*** 304.43-0ubuntu1~precise~xup1 0
500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates/ubuntu/
precise/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
295.40-0ubuntu1.1 0
500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/restricted
amd64 Packages
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-security/restricted
amd64 Packages
295.40-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/restricted amd64
Packages
giuliano@saturn:~$ nvidia-settings -v
nvidia-settings: version 295.33 (buildd@allspice) Fri Mar 30 15:25:24 UTC
2012
The NVIDIA X Server Settings tool.
giuliano@saturn:~$ nvidia-settings -q GPUs
1 GPU on saturn:0
[0] saturn:0[gpu:0] (GeForce GT 440)
** Affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers-173 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Driver 304.43 insalled but not used by ubuntu 12.04
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