[Cooker] nvidia silently switching to free driver on reboot

[Frank Griffin-4]

I'm seeing something strange in the last day or so.  Whenever I reboot
my system with an nvidia GE 6200 and the proprietary driver installed,
the DM comes up but doesn't look quite right (takes slightly less than
the normal full screen).  When I log into my desktop, icons are
abutting  (or extending under) the GNOME panel, and none of the windows
have titlebars.  This last bit is a symptom I recognize - it happens
when you have Compiz turned on, but you're using the free driver.

If I logout, I get a black-on-white popup saying that the system
couldn't find the proprietary driver and is reverting to the free driver
(which it looks like it already had).

If I switch to a VC and run XFdrake from the command line, it correctly
identifies the card and offers the prompt for the proprietary driver,
and then activates it without a problem (it's already installed).

Anyone else seeing anything along these lines ?  Any idea what could
cause this ?

[Ahmad Samir]

2009/10/28 Frank Griffin <ftg@...>:

> I'm seeing something strange in the last day or so.  Whenever I reboot
> my system with an nvidia GE 6200 and the proprietary driver installed,
> the DM comes up but doesn't look quite right (takes slightly less than
> the normal full screen).  When I log into my desktop, icons are
> abutting  (or extending under) the GNOME panel, and none of the windows
> have titlebars.  This last bit is a symptom I recognize - it happens
> when you have Compiz turned on, but you're using the free driver.
>
> If I logout, I get a black-on-white popup saying that the system
> couldn't find the proprietary driver and is reverting to the free driver
> (which it looks like it already had).
>
> If I switch to a VC and run XFdrake from the command line, it correctly
> identifies the card and offers the prompt for the proprietary driver,
> and then activates it without a problem (it's already installed).
>
> Anyone else seeing anything along these lines ?  Any idea what could
> cause this ?
>

https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=54943

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le Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:12:02 -0400
Frank Griffin <ftg@...> à écrit:

> Anyone else seeing anything along these lines ?

 yes, i have the same problem this morning.

 

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[Frank Griffin-4]

Ahmad Samir wrote:
> 2009/10/28 Frank Griffin <ftg@...>:
>  
>> Anyone else seeing anything along these lines ?  Any idea what could
>> cause this ?
>>    
> https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=54943
>  
Thanks.

[guillomovitch]

Frank Griffin a écrit :
> Anyone else seeing anything along these lines ?  Any idea what could
> cause this ?
BTW, how can I prevent harddrake to run at boot at all ?

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On Thursday 29 of October 2009 12:37:10 Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> Frank Griffin a écrit :
> > Anyone else seeing anything along these lines ?  Any idea what
> > could cause this ?
>
> BTW, how can I prevent harddrake to run at boot at all ?
>
{pts/0}% grep HARD /etc/sysconfig/system
HARDDRAKE_ONBOOT=no