Driver Manager is Useless

[rbwallis]

I did a clean install of 16.04. The Device Manager in the System Settings app does nothing. It shows the collecting information notice but never shows any information.

[Snowhog]

Do you mean Driver Manager? That is a know issue and is being worked on.

[rbwallis]

Yes, my bad. Driver Manager

[vinnywright]

yes ,,,,their are a few post on that @hear

untill it gets fixed you can still use the command line version

ubuntu-drivers

you use it like so

vinny@vinny-Bonobo-Extreme:~$ [COLOR=#ff0000]ubuntu-drivers devices[/COLOR]
== /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0 ==                                                      
vendor   : NVIDIA Corporation                                                                                     
modalias : pci:v000010DEd0000119Asv00001558sd00000376bc03sc00i00                                                  
model    : GK104M [GeForce GTX 860M]                                                                                    
driver   : nvidia-361 - distro non-free recommended                                                                     
driver   : nvidia-340 - distro non-free                                                                                      
driver   : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin                                                                             
                                                                                                                                        
== cpu-microcode.py ==                                                                                                                  
driver   : intel-microcode - distro non-free

as we see the nvidia-361 is what is recommended ,,,,,,,,,,,,,and allready installed .

at this point you could run it as

ubuntu-drivers autoinstall

and should install whatever it is saying "recommended" to !!

But I would use apt-get and do

sudo apt-get install nvidia-361

this has the advantage of showing you what else will be needed to be installed and ask you if you want to proceed or back out.

VINNY

[NoWorries]

Hi VINNY,

Because I have the Software Source http://ppa.launchpad.net/graphics-drivers/ppa/ubuntu and http://ppa.launchpad.net/xorg-edgers/ppa/ubuntu added to my system I get the following;

:~$ ubuntu-drivers devices
== /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0 ==
model    : GF108M [GeForce GT 630M]
vendor   : NVIDIA Corporation
modalias : pci:v000010DEd00000DE9sv00001043sd00001477bc03sc00i00
driver   : nvidia-358 - third-party free
driver   : nvidia-364 - third-party free recommended
driver   : nvidia-340 - distro non-free
driver   : nvidia-361 - distro non-free
driver   : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin
driver   : nvidia-304 - distro non-free
driver   : nvidia-304-updates - distro non-free

== cpu-microcode.py ==
driver   : intel-microcode - distro non-free

Because of this I have nvidia-364 installed and it is recommended. I find it interesting that this driver is third-party free, whereas the nvidia-361 is distro non-free.

NoWorries

[vinnywright]

Hi VINNY,

Because I have the Software Source http://ppa.launchpad.net/graphics-drivers/ppa/ubuntu and http://ppa.launchpad.net/xorg-edgers/ppa/ubuntu added to my system I get the following;

:~$ ubuntu-drivers devices
== /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0 ==
model    : GF108M [GeForce GT 630M]
vendor   : NVIDIA Corporation
modalias : pci:v000010DEd00000DE9sv00001043sd00001477bc03sc00i00
driver   : nvidia-358 - third-party free
driver   : nvidia-364 - third-party free recommended
driver   : nvidia-340 - distro non-free
driver   : nvidia-361 - distro non-free
driver   : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin
driver   : nvidia-304 - distro non-free
driver   : nvidia-304-updates - distro non-free

== cpu-microcode.py ==
driver   : intel-microcode - distro non-free

Because of this I have nvidia-364 installed and it is recommended. I find it interesting that this driver is third-party free, whereas the nvidia-361 is distro non-free.

NoWorries

dont know for sure,,,,,,,,but I would say that it is how the PPA has packaged it .

VINNY