[Bug 1126234] Re: Does not show nvidia driver if intel card is active

[_dan_]

Cant in mine, can only choose which to use as primary (which i did, with no
effect)
Problem is tho, this is not very user friendly. A normal desktop user does
not know what a bios is, nor how to to stuff in it.
Also he/she usually does not know how to manually install nvidia drivers.
I dont think forcing users to frickle in their bios (whats the plural of
bios? biose, biosi, bioses?) is the way to go, since how should one know to
do this?
Normal user only sees "no nvidia drivers available" or does not even know
there are any and just experiences poor performance and not working games
resulting in an unhappy user.


On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Alberto Milone <
alberto.milone at canonical.com> wrote:

> @dan: in that case you should really disable the Intel GPU from the
> BIOS. Some BIOSes do it automatically, some require manual intervention
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Title:
  Does not show nvidia driver if intel card is active

Status in Nvidia Feature Request and Bug Reporting:
  New
Status in “software-properties” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “ubuntu-drivers-common” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Since 12.10 i am unable to install the nvidia drivers via the gui, update-manager settings (Software Sources -> Additional Drivers) will not give me an option to install, just shows an empty list.
  jockey-text returns an empty list aswell
  "jockey-text 
  Additional Drivers
  Searching for available drivers...
  "
  jockey-kde on the other hand shows a list of 6 drivers with the same title.

  lspci|grep VGA shows me:

  01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G92 [GeForce
  8800 GT] (rev a2)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: update-manager 1:0.174.4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-24.37-generic 3.5.7.4
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-24-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Feb 15 14:40:06 2013
  GsettingsChanges:
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'first-run' b'false'
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'launch-time' b'1360933283'
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'show-details' b'true'
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-height' b'484'
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-width' b'937'
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: update-manager
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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