Installing experimental 304 drivers then experimental 310 drivers leaves them in a conflicting state

steamclosed NVIDIA driversreviewedNot a bug

ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#640 · opened 2013-01-10 by ghost · updated 2013-01-10 · 2 comments · github

?ghost 2013-01-10 github

I originally installed the 304 drivers. I was prompted to update to the 310 drivers and then needed to reboot. Upon reboot drivers did not load properly, and I was brought to a shell. Entered

jockey-text --list

echoed:

nvidia_experimental_310 - nvidia_experimental_310 (Proprietary, Enabled, Not in use)
xorg:nvidia_current - NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)
xorg:nvidia_current_updates - NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (post-release updates) (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)
xorg:nvidia_experimental_304 - NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (experimental beta) (Proprietary, Enabled, Not in use)

notice both 310 and 304 drivers enabled. Temporary solution by uninstalling 304 drivers

sudo apt-get remove nvidia-experimental-304

sudo reboot

Installation of experimental 310 drivers should remove 304 drivers

edit: hardware information

Processor Information:
    Vendor:  AuthenticAMD
    Speed: 3200 Mhz
    5 logical processors
    5 physical processors
    HyperThreading:  Unsupported
    FCMOV:  Supported
    SSE2:  Supported
    SSE3:  Supported
    SSSE3:  Supported
    SSE4a:  Supported
    SSE41:  Unsupported
    SSE42:  Unsupported

Network Information:
    Network Speed:  

Operating System Version:
    Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS (64 bit)
    Kernel Name:  Linux
    Kernel Version:  3.2.0-32-generic
    X Server vendor:  The X.Org Foundation
    X Server release:  11103000

Video Card:
    Driver:  NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GT 440/PCIe/SSE2

    Driver Version:  4.3.0 NVIDIA 310.14
    Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
    Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
    VendorID:  0x10de
    DeviceID:  0xde0
    Number of Monitors:  1
    Number of Logical Video Cards:  1
    Primary Display Resolution:  1920 x 1080
    Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1080
    Primary Display Size: 40.91" x 22.99"  (46.89" diag)
                                            103.9cm x 58.4cm  (119.1cm diag)
    Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
    Primary VRAM: 1023 MB
    Supported MSAA Modes:  2x 4x 8x 16x 

Sound card:
    Audio device: Realtek ALC892

Memory:
    RAM:  16050 Mb

Miscellaneous:
    UI Language:  English
    LANG:  en_US.UTF-8
    Microphone:  Not set
    Total Hard Disk Space Available:  92105 Mb
    Largest Free Hard Disk Block:  9183 Mb

Installed software:

Recent Failure Reports:

MMrSchism 2013-01-10 github

Please include the information requested at https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux to aid in troubleshooting.

This bug is not a Steam bug, but rather a bug with your OS. It does give a nice heads up to some people, though.

However, I'm unable to reproduce this on Mint 14, 32-bit.

Bbdeen-valve maintainer 2013-01-10 github

Your best bet is to follow up with nVidia. I've done exactly what it sounds like you tried and not had this issue.

Nothing extracted yet.