FGLRX + Wine 1.6/1.7

[Frank616]

Steve:

Thanks for the willingness to help.

frank@media:~$ lsmod | egrep 'nvidia|nouveau'
nouveau              1097199  1 
mxm_wmi                13021  1 nouveau
wmi                    19177  2 mxm_wmi,nouveau
ttm                    85150  1 nouveau
i2c_algo_bit           13413  2 i915,nouveau
drm_kms_helper         55071  2 i915,nouveau
drm                   303102  6 ttm,i915,drm_kms_helper,nouveau
video                  19476  2 i915,nouveau
frank@media:~$ 
frank@media:~$ egrep 'nvidia|nouveau' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[    18.590] (==) Matched nvidia as autoconfigured driver 1
[    18.590] (==) Matched nouveau as autoconfigured driver 2
[    18.615] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
[    18.615] (II) Loading /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xorg/extra-modules/nvidia_drv.so
[    18.615] (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
[    18.615] (II) LoadModule: "nouveau"
[    18.615] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nouveau_drv.so
[    18.622] (II) Module nouveau: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    18.657] (II) [drm] nouveau interface version: 1.1.2
[    18.888] (II) NOUVEAU(0): [DRI2]   DRI driver: nouveau
[    18.888] (II) NOUVEAU(0): [DRI2]   VDPAU driver: nouveau
frank@media:~$

So, do I correctly read those commands as confirming that the machine is using the Nouveau driver?

Frank

[SteveRiley]

So, do I correctly read those commands as confirming that the machine is using the Nouveau driver?

Yep.

This should get you the latest NVIDIA drivers from the Ubuntu (not Xorg-Edgers) repository along with the generic OpenCL ICD for both 32-bit and 64-bit:

sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends nvidia-331-updates libcuda1-331-updates ocl-icd-libopencl1:i386 ocl-icd-libopencl1:amd64 nvidia-opencl-icd-331-updates

It's all one line. The installer will create the proper files in /etc/modprobe.d to blacklist Nouveau.

[Frank616]

Steve:

So, with that command executed, all is well? Is there follow-up that I need to do?

I am unsure of the "-no-install-recommends" option. I looked up the flags for apt-get, and I did not see that listed. Will this command actually DO something, or is it just a 'dry run' to see what WOULD be done if the "--no-install-recommends" flag were not there?

Thanks.

Frank.

[SteveRiley]

From the man page:

      --no-install-recommends
           Do not consider recommended packages as a dependency for installing.

A recommed is occasionally called a soft dependency. In other words, the package maintainer feels that a recommend would be a good thing to include with a package, but there is no actual hard dependency. By default, apt-get will pull in all recommended packages. The reason I'm having you omit the recommends is that otherwise you'd end up with the NVIDIA Prime/Optimus stuff.

Actually, I realize just now that I left off one packge: the settings stuff. So the command should be:

sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends nvidia-331-updates libcuda1-331-updates ocl-icd-libopencl1:i386 ocl-icd-libopencl1:amd64 nvidia-opencl-icd-331-updates nvidia-settings

But first...let's make sure that no NVIDIA packages are currently installed. What's the output of dpkg -l | grep nvidia?

[Frank616]

Steve:

A recommed is occasionally called a soft dependency

Ah. I wondered about that after I posted to you, and was re-reading my post.

frank@media:~$ dpkg -l | grep nvidia
rc  nvidia-304                                  304.117-0ubuntu1                       amd64        NVIDIA legacy binary driver - version 304.117
ii  nvidia-331                                  331.38-0ubuntu7.1                      amd64        NVIDIA binary driver - version 331.38
ii  nvidia-libopencl1-331                       331.38-0ubuntu7.1                      amd64        NVIDIA OpenCL Driver and ICD Loader library
rc  nvidia-opencl-icd-304                       304.117-0ubuntu1                       amd64        NVIDIA OpenCL ICD
ii  nvidia-opencl-icd-331                       331.38-0ubuntu7.1                      amd64        NVIDIA OpenCL ICD
ii  nvidia-prime                                0.6.2                                  amd64        Tools to enable NVIDIA's Prime
ii  nvidia-settings                             331.20-0ubuntu8                        amd64        Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
frank@media:~$

Yeah, there is a lot of nVidia stuff there.

Frank.

[SteveRiley]

Please purge all of those packages, including the ones indicated by "rc" (this means that configuration information is still hanging around). After you do that, check the directory /etc/modprobe.d and ensure that no NVIDIA-related files exist; if some are there, delete them. Then reboot the computer to let a "normal" Nouveau configuration establish itself. After that, run the install command in my post #19. That should take care of everything for you.

[Frank616]

Steve:

apt-get --purge remove nvidia* ?

Or use Synaptic to remove the packages with the 'mark for complete removal option?

Don't assume that I know what I'm doing.

Frank

[SteveRiley]

apt-get --purge remove nvidia*

Using wildcards with apt-get can sometimes have unintended side-effects. And --purge remove can be shortened to purge. So the command would be:

sudo apt-get purge nvidia-304 nvidia-opencl-icd-304 nvidia-331 nvidia-opencl-icd-331 nvidia-libopencl1-331 nvidia-prime nvidia-settings

Then run:

sudo rm /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia*

to remove any left-over NVIDIA-related files. If you receive a "No such file or directory" error, that's fine -- it simply means that tthe files were properly removed before. Now reboot, and the system will configure itself for Nouveau. Then run the command in my post #19.

Or use Synaptic to remove the packages with the 'mark for complete removal option?

Don't use Muon for stuff like this. Start to get comfortable with the command line tools for package management. They provide much more feedback and allow you to have greater manipulation over how to manage specific files.

[Frank616]

Steve:

Don't use Muon for stuff like this

I try not to use Muon at all. I much prefer Synaptic.

However, yes, I agree about the command line. I am trying to use it more, and especially for things like this. Playing with video drivers is like playing with dynamite.

I'll run those commands, and see what happens. Hopefully Nouveau will display on my HDMI monitor. If not, I'll have to drag the old Dell VGA monitor upstairs again to be able to see what I am doing.

Frank.

[Frank616]

Steve:

Yeah, the HDMI monitor came up black again, so I had to haul out the Dell monitor and plug it in. Such a pain, as I have to haul the whole cabinet away from the wall to get at the connectors on the computer....

Anyway, this time I got brave, opened the BIOS, and disabled the IGD. I assumed that this was the Internal Graphics Device. The BIOS showed two video devices, with the IGD as primary. I saw no obvious way to make the nVidia card primary (could not promote it in the list), so just disabled the blasted thing. This time it booted to the HDMI display right away, with the Dell monitor unplugged altogether. All was well. I still don't get any boot messages or BIOS display during the boot on the HDMI monitor, but that has always been the case.

I then ran your command to reinstall the nVidia 331 drivers, with the following output:

frank@media:~$ sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends nvidia-331-updates libcuda1-331-updates ocl-icd-libopencl1:i386 ocl-icd-libopencl1:amd64 nvidia-opencl-icd-331-updates nvidia-settings
[sudo] password for frank: 
Reading package lists... Done
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frank@media:~$

So, it looks like it was successful. Now to reboot and see if it does work. I'll post a follow up message once the reboot completes.

Frank.

[Frank616]

Steve:

Works! All effects are back.

The nVidia driver even correctly picked up the model number of my home theatre, which is between the computer and the HDMI flat panel TV!

Happiness!

Thank you for walking me through this. I have learned a lot, and have taken a lot of notes on this.

Now to do yet another security update.... Hope nothing breaks THIS time.

Frank.

[SteveRiley]

I'm glad everything worked well for you.

I remain suspicious of the state of software support for any kind of dual Intel+NVIDIA hardware configuration. Disabling the Intel graphics, if possible, is the best option; that's what I've done on my ThinkPad T520. Once that's done, then the NVIDIA binary driver will install without a hitch.

Next, run the suggested clean-up command to get rid of all those i386 architecture packages: sudo apt-get --purge autoremove. I'm having you do this in advance of installing Wine, because I don't know whether you may have over time added other packages that aren't necessary.

Finally, install Wine. The version of Wine in the Ubuntu repositories is 1.6, which is kind of old. A PPA has the newer 1.7, currently release 1.7.28. First add the PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa

Then update your package list:

sudo apt-get update

And finally install the necessary Wine packages:

sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends wine1.7 winetricks ttf-mscorefonts-installer

Again, there are too many recommends here, like some printer stuff you won't need and a handful of foreign language fonts. The above command will bring in just what you need: the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Wine, the necessary i386 and amd64 library files, and the correct font for system dialogs.

[Frank616]

Steve:

Disabling the Intel graphics, if possible, is the best option; that's what I've done on my ThinkPad T520. Once that's done, then the NVIDIA binary driver will install without a hitch.

The dual graphics seem to confuse both Nouveau and nVidia. Disabling the onboard video simplified many things. I would have tried that earlier, but I was afraid of locking out any graphics, and winding up with a headless machine with no way I knew of to get back to the BIOS and correct any of my meddling. In any case, disabling the onboard video was indeed a good move. I've had trouble setting up video on this media machine since I bought it about 3 years ago.

WINE is already installed on the media PC. It is that installation that unloaded the nVidia driver, and caused all this mess to begin with. However, with that said, WINE no longer works on that machine, now that the video has been fixed.

I find this strange, as I have two other machines with nVidia graphics, a Dell M6600 Laptop, and my old Core-2 duo desktop. By using the dpkg command you gave me earlier, I have determined that both of them are using the 331 driver. They both also have WINE installations, and they work just fine. The Dell is running WINE 1.7.28, and the Core2 Duo is running 1.6.2 (I should add the PPA to the Core-2 Duo and update it).

Anyway, I will follow through with your suggestions later today, and post back what happens.

Frank.