driver manager

[vinnywright]

the system settings>driver manager ,,,,,,,still dose not work .

just sits their "collecting information about the system" ,,,,,,,,,, and never dose .

VINNY

[claydoh]

the command ubuntu-drivers will work from the cli as a workaround

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ake@jake-Latitude-E6420:~$ ubuntu-drivers --help
usage: ubuntu-drivers [-h] [--package-list PATH] <command>

List/install driver packages for Ubuntu.

positional arguments:
<command> See below

optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--package-list PATH Create file with list of installed packages (in
autoinstall mode)

Available commands:
autoinstall: Install drivers that are appropriate for automatic installation.
list: Show all driver packages which apply to the current system.
debug: Print all available information and debug data about drivers.
devices: Show all devices which need drivers, and which packages apply to them.

[vinnywright]

yes it will ,,,,,,

root@vinny-Bonobo-Extreme:/home/vinny#  ubuntu-drivers devices
== cpu-microcode.py ==
driver   : intel-microcode - distro non-free

== /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0 ==
model    : GK104M [GeForce GTX 860M]
modalias : pci:v000010DEd0000119Asv00001558sd00000376bc03sc00i00
vendor   : NVIDIA Corporation
driver   : nvidia-340-updates - distro non-free
driver   : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin
driver   : nvidia-361 - distro non-free recommended
driver   : nvidia-340 - distro non-free
driver   : nvidia-361-updates - distro non-free

root@vinny-Bonobo-Extreme:/home/vinny# ubuntu-drivers list
nvidia-340-updates
nvidia-361-updates
nvidia-361
nvidia-340
intel-microcode

I was just posting as a FYI ,,,,,don't expect this thing to find drivers for you as of yet ,,,,,,,,,

but is good that this workaround is posted hear as well

VINNY

[claydoh]

Didja file a big report??

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Kubuntu XX Beta2 announcement: https://wiki.kubuntu.org/XenialXerus/Beta2/Kubuntu
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Known Problems
Bugs tagged Kubuntu 16.04

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(1530523) kcm_driver_manager: Infinitely shows Collecting information
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---> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...r/+bug/1530523

[Rufus]

This kind of annoying little thingies makes me hold on to 15.10, which does not give me trouble except for the little tray-icons going invisible on rare ocasions and the updates icon never going away after updates.

[vinnywright]

added my to the bug report

VINNY

[prosoor]

I also have this bug.
I have nvidia card. I wanted to install drivers.
It is stuck at Collecting information about your system.,
Now I used ubuntu-drivers autoinstall.
I hoped it would install nvidia driver.
It installed something, I don't know what.
Then I tried to use Steam, Steam doesn't work properly, cannot find graphic card.
Most probably drivers are not installed right.
I am so lucky I didn't install this on my game computer, because I wouldn't play any games, its obvious.

[Cecil]

I also have this bug.
I have nvidia card. I wanted to install drivers.
It is stuck at Collecting information about your system.,
Now I used ubuntu-drivers autoinstall.
I hoped it would install nvidia driver.
It installed something, I don't know what.
Then I tried to use Steam, Steam doesn't work properly, cannot find graphic card.
Most probably drivers are not installed right.
I am so lucky I didn't install this on my game computer, because I wouldn't play any games, its obvious.

I use apt or apt-get to install drivers. If you're not using the proprietary gpu drivers ppa, then the latest nvidia driver package available on 16.04 is nvidia-361, so use

sudo apt install nvidia-361

. If you want nvidia-364, then add the ppa

ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa

[Teunis]

Yeah it has been broken since it arrived, not so long ago it was missing altogether..
I've simply installed the most recent driver from the package manager and that works.

Sure it's annoying but no big deal, the disappearance of Muon is IMNSHO a bigger breakage.