wine users - May 2011 - Kernel modules: nvidia, nvidia-173, nvidia-current, nouveau

Since upgrading from Ubuntu 10.10 I have had problems with graphics. The
problems started after I initially upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04 but then installed
xubuntu-desktop over it, but I have had the same problem all my fresh installs
of Xubuntu 11.04 too.

FPS previously averaging about 30 or 35 FPS while playing an OpenGL game with
WINE now starts at 20 FPS for 2 or 3 minutes and then slows down to 2-5 FPS.

Unfortunately Applications Menu >> System >> Additional Drivers or
jockey shows:

> The driver is activated but not currently in use.

Restart and/or switching to the other driver, and/or back, and/or restarting
does nothing.


Code:
dusf at banshee:~$ lspci -k
...
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G72 [GeForce 7300 LE] (rev
a1)
   Subsystem: Dell Device 0405
   Kernel driver in use: nvidia
   Kernel modules: nvidia-current, nvidia-173, nouveau, nvidiafb

Although now Kernel modules also includes 'nvidia' after my attempts to
fix the problem which I shall get on to.

I was advised on the WINE HQ forums:

> You are using both the proprietary and FOSS drivers. Remove the FOSS
> drivers (nouveau) and use only the nVidia supplied drivers. 
I used *synaptic to uninstall xserver-xorg-video-nouveau as there is no package
which is just 'nouveau'.

Edited a line in /etc/default/grub to:


Code:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset
rdblacklist=nouveau"

Then:


Code:
sudo update-grub

On rebooting none of these measures made any difference to FPS performance, or
the kernel modules listed in lspci -k.

Further following advice from the WINE HQ forums I executed:


Code:
sudo modprobe -r nouveau

but the above also made no difference to FPS performance, or the kernel modules
listed in lspci -k.

I tried another fresh install of Xubuntu 11.04, formatting /home and /boot
partition (if relevant), and as advised from #Xubuntu on freenode I installed
all updates before going near jockey or Applications Menu >> System
>> Additional Drivers but nothing had changed from there or the output of
lspci -k.

On further advice last night from #Xubuntu I *executed:


Code:
sudo apt-get --purge remove xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

And then added the following lines to the bottom of
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf:


Code:
blacklist vga16fb
blacklist nouveau
blacklist rivafb
blacklist nvidiafb
blacklist rivatv

I saved the file, and then rebooted into recovery mode to bring up a tty without
x running where I had to chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86-270.41.06.run before
installing which warned me there was a problem with the preconfigured
distribution script but installed anyway.

On logging in lspci -k now outputs


Code:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G72 [GeForce 7300 LE] (rev
a1)
    Subsystem: Dell Device 0405
    Kernel driver in use: nvidia
Kernel modules: nvidia, nvidia-173, nvidia-current, nouveau, nvidiafb

...which includes the additional nvidia module but jockey still is the same and
I just confirmed my FPS will still start at 20 FPS and drop to 2-5 FPS shortly
after starting an OpenGL game with WINE.

dusf at banshee:~$ jockey-text -l
xorg:nvidia_173 - NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (Proprietary, Disabled, Not
in use)
xorg:nvidia_current - NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (Proprietary, Enabled,
Not in use)

etc/X11/xorg.conf:


Code:
Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection

My post is #21 on
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/726496
although I'm not sure it's the exact same bug, as I seem to have two of
the different problems mentioned, and then some.

Where do I go from here? I want to keep trying to fix this problem, but I will
downgrade to Xubuntu 10.10 if absolutely necessary.

Tried:


Code:
dusf at banshee:~$ echo options nouveau modeset=0 | sudo tee -a
/etc/modprobe.d/nouveau-kms.conf
[sudo] password for dusf:
options nouveau modeset=0
dusf at banshee:~$ sudo update-initramfs -u
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic
cryptsetup: WARNING: failed to detect canonical device of /dev/sda9
cryptsetup: WARNING: could not determine root device from /etc/fstab



But unfortunately after a reboot lspci -k still outputs:


Code:

Kernel driver in use: nvidia
Kernel modules: nvidia, nvidia-173, nvidia-current, nouveau, nvidiafb

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 15:41, dusf <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> Tried:
>
>
> Code:
> dusf at banshee:~$ echo options nouveau modeset=0 | sudo tee -a
/etc/modprobe.d/nouveau-kms.conf
> [sudo] password for dusf:
> options nouveau modeset=0
> dusf at banshee:~$ sudo update-initramfs -u
> update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic
> cryptsetup: WARNING: failed to detect canonical device of /dev/sda9
> cryptsetup: WARNING: could not determine root device from /etc/fstab
>
>
>
> But unfortunately after a reboot lspci -k still outputs:
>
>
> Code:
>
> Kernel driver in use: nvidia
> Kernel modules: nvidia, nvidia-173, nvidia-current, nouveau, nvidiafb
Use ubuntu-x-swat PPA to get latest nVidia blob. Activate it via
hardware/additional drivers (aka jockey IIRC)
Then restart X (or Ubuntu if you prefer)

[/quote]
Use ubuntu-x-swat PPA to get latest nVidia blob. Activate it via
hardware/additional drivers (aka jockey IIRC)
Then restart X (or Ubuntu if you prefer)[/quote]

I have the latest from NVIDIA's own site already, but as it happens it's
the same as nvidia-current provided by Ubuntu.

Fr??d??ric Delanoy wrote:
> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 12:42, dusf <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> 
> Use ubuntu-x-swat PPA to get latest nVidia blob. Activate it via
> hardware/additional drivers (aka jockey IIRC)
> Then restart X (or Ubuntu if you prefer)

I have the latest from NVIDIA's own site already, but as it happens it's
the same as nvidia-current provided by Ubuntu.
[/quote]
The point is custom Ubuntu packages are generally less likely to cause
problem than generic Unix NVIDIA installer[/quote]

Okay, I had thought on reading that that just means I would have the driver
installed which I did before going to NVIDIA's site, but on searching
synaptic for nvidia I see there's nvidia-glx-173, which I'm assuming is
what I had before because it's shown in jockey, but also a nvidia-glx-185
(270.41.06-0ubuntu1).

Neither of these are shown as installed because I ran the NVIDIA script from a
TTY.

So will I just sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-185?