[Bug 2138861] Re: Additional Drivers mentions Xorg with the Nouveau driver option

[Charles]

The text isn't wrong regarding the package description itself, but it is
outdated as a label for the driver stack. Since software-properties-gtk
builds this list from the output of the ubuntu-drivers Python API, the
fix belongs in ubuntu-drivers-common rather than the UI.

ubuntu-drivers assumes the legacy X.org DDX driver (xserver-xorg-video-
nouveau) is the representative for the open-source driver. On modern
stacks, this package is often irrelevant.

However, we can't simply point the tool to a "modern" package because
the actual components (like libdrm-nouveau2 or libgl1-mesa-dri) have
highly technical descriptions that are not user-friendly.

So I suggest we modify ubuntu-drivers to special-case the Nouveau/Mesa
driver. Instead of scraping metadata from a proxy package, it should
return a user-friendly string (maybe "Nouveau Open Source Driver")

** Changed in: software-properties (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  Additional Drivers mentions Xorg with the Nouveau driver option

Status in software-properties package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in ubuntu-drivers-common package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Additional Drivers lists this as the only way to select the Nouveau
  driver:

    "Using X.Org X server -- Nouveau display driver from xserver-xorg-
  video-nouveau"

  So the text is wrong. Choosing this option DOES give you Nouveau,
  which is a Mesa and kernel driver, but it has nothing to do with Xorg
  anymore. Just call it Nouveau or "Nouveau from Mesa" if you want to be
  clear where it comes from.

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