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jockey package

jockey does not show nvidia drivers

Bug #438791 reported by wensveen
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
jockey (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
Unassigned
Karmic
Won't Fix
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Jockey does not show any driver proprietary or no, even though nvidia-glx-185 is installed and in use.

I use Karmic and every package is freshly updated just now.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Sep 29 17:56:07 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
MachineType: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. P35-S3
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: jockey-gtk 0.5.4-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=46e49f64-da65-46fb-a8ca-cceeca69f967 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
SourcePackage: jockey
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64
dmi.bios.date: 11/29/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
dmi.bios.version: F6
dmi.board.name: P35-S3
dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.board.version: x.x
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrF6:bd11/29/2007:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnP35-S3:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnP35-S3:rvrx.x:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: P35-S3
dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.

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lp:~brian-murray/jockey/brian
Martin Pitt: Needs Information
Diff: 30 lines
2 files modified
debian/changelog (+7/-0)
debian/control (+3/-2)
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wensveen (wensveen) wrote :
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

From the log file:

2009-09-29 17:28:48,545 WARNING: Invalid custom handler module /usr/share/jockey/handlers/nvidia.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/jockey/detection.py", line 897, in get_handlers
    execfile(mod, symb)
  File "/usr/share/jockey/handlers/nvidia.py", line 11, in <module>
    from NvidiaDetector.nvidiadetector import NvidiaDetection
ImportError: No module named NvidiaDetector.nvidiadetector

NvidiaDetector is provided by nvidia-common which you likely do no have installed.

summary: - jockey does not show any drivers
+ jockey does not show nvidia drivers
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

I have 2 systems, one running Karmic and one running Jaunty, that have jockey-common installed and ubuntu-desktop but do not have nvidia-common installed. Since the import of NvidiaDetector fails the nvidia proprietary drivers are never recommended by jockey. I think the Recommends of nvidia-common should be moved to a Depends.

Changed in jockey (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Triaged
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

nvidia-common isn't necessary for jockey to run, so a recommends is just fine. I got complaints in the past that nvidia-common couldn't be uninstalled even though the machine didn't even have nvidia hardware.

Changed in jockey (Ubuntu Karmic):
importance: High → Medium
status: Triaged → Won't Fix
Changed in jockey (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Incomplete
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Since nivdia-common is installed by default, and also recommended (which are also installed by default), did you uninstall it?

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wensveen (wensveen) wrote :

nvidia-common is indeed not installed. I don't recall uninstalling it, but I won't claim I didn't. I have been upgrading since Edgy or Feisty (don't remember). Also, I sometimes turn off the option to install recommended packages by default when I think there are huge amounts of packages I don't need.

I'll install nvidia-common and see if that works, when I get home tonight.

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wensveen (wensveen) wrote :

After installing nvidia-common, jockey works as expected. Since nvidia-common is recommended by jockey-common, I guess this bug report is invalid? Thanks for all the help.

Changed in jockey (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

As I had multiple systems missing recommended packages, and after speaking with Michael Vogt, I submitted a bug regarding update-manager and the missing recommended packages. That is bug 459443.

Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)
tags: added: iso-testing
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