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ubuntu-drivers-common package

no way to list drivers "ubuntu-drivers list --gpgpu" will install

Bug #1952147 reported by Michael Hudson-Doyle
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ubuntu-drivers-common (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Alberto Milone

Bug Description

I'm pretty sure that "ubuntu-drivers install --gpgpu" will install something if and only if "ubuntu-drivers list --gpgpu" has non-empty output, but the logic of which of the things list returns gets installed seems a bit non-trivial

The context for this is in the server installer, I want to say "we think you should install nvidia-headless-no-dkms-470-server and linux-modules-nvidia-470-server-generic", shall we go ahead and install them?

My current spike just says "there are some drivers you might want to install, shall we install them?" which just seems a bit opaque

Alberto suggested a flag so that I could run "ubuntu-drivers list --gpgpu --recommended" in the installer. I should just make very clear that I'd want "ubuntu-drivers list --recommended" (i.e. without --gpgpu) to work the same way :)

Alberto Milone (albertomilone)
Changed in ubuntu-drivers-common (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Alberto Milone (albertomilone)
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
Alberto Milone (albertomilone)
Changed in ubuntu-drivers-common (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-drivers-common - 1:0.9.3

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ubuntu-drivers-common (1:0.9.3) jammy; urgency=medium

  * UbuntuDrivers/detect.py,
    ubuntu-drivers:
    - Provide helper functions for NVIDIA on the desktop:
      o get_desktop_package_list()
      o nvidia_desktop_pre_installation_hook()
      o nvidia_desktop_post_installation_hook()
      The new functions, which are now used by ubuntu-drivers
      (only for the desktop i.e. "ubuntu-drivers install"),
      allow reusing the hardware detection and the customisations
      from ubuntu-drivers in other applications such as the
      Software Properties UIsi (LP: #1942208).
    - Add the "--recommended" option to the "list" command
      (LP: #1952147).
      This allows to show only the packages that will be
      installed using auto-detection i.e. one specific
      driver and its kernel module, instead of all the
      compatible drivers.
      This works with and without --gpgpu, yielding different
      results.

 -- Alberto Milone <email address hidden> Thu, 18 Nov 2021 18:05:53 +0100

Changed in ubuntu-drivers-common (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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