This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-drivers-common - 1:0.5.2.4
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ubuntu-drivers-common (1:0.5.2.4) bionic; urgency=medium
[ Alberto Milone ]
* UbuntuDrivers/detect.py,
UbuntuDrivers/kerneldetection.py,
tests/ubuntu_drivers.py,
ubuntu-drivers:
- Provide DKMS fallback for the "install --gpgpu" case
when no linux-modules-nvidia are available for the driver
and for a specific kernel (LP: #1843796).
We have new tests to cover this scenario now.
- Show provider of kernel modules in list --gpgpu
- Fix linux metapackage detection.
This was meant to be driven by the latest kernel version
But it was only partially implemented.
Complete the implementation and update the relevant tests.
- Make sure to install the linux-modules-nvidia package for the
kernel flavour in use, when passing the --gpgpu argument, so
that we can deliver a working NVIDIA installation, provided
that the EULA was accepted.
[ Jean-Baptiste Lallement ]
* ubuntu-drivers,
UbuntuDrivers/detect.py,
tests/ubuntu_drivers.py:
- Add a --free-only parameter, so as to allow installing only the
available free drivers. This is a backport of only the
ubuntu-drivers-common specific part of LP: #1819207, since
it is tied to the rest of the changes to the test suite.
- Add support for testing against a fake archive with free and
non-free components.
- Add static code checker.
* debian/control:
- Add pycodestyle and pyflake8 to build depends.
-- Alberto Milone <[email protected]> Tue, 17 Sep 2019
16:34:56 +0200
** Changed in: ubuntu-drivers-common (Ubuntu Bionic)
Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1843796
Title:
ubuntu-drivers install --gpgpu should use a DKMS fallback when no
linux-modules-nvidia package is available
Status in ubuntu-drivers-common package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in ubuntu-drivers-common source package in Bionic:
Fix Released
Bug description:
SRU Request:
[Impact]
* Calling "ubuntu-drivers install" does not install the kernel
modules when passed the "--gpgpu" argument.
While matching linux-modules-nvidia packages for the running kernel
should be the default choice, we should fall back to the DKMS package
when they are not available.
The cha
[Test Case]
* Remove any currently installed nvidia drivers:
sudo apt-get --purge remove '*nvidia*'
* Call the ubuntu drivers tool:
sudo ubuntu-drivers install --gpgpu
* Restart your computer, and run the nvidia-smi package:
sudo nvidia-smi
* Check that the output shows the NVIDIA GPU (this is a sign that the
kernel module was loaded, and is running properly).
[Regression Potential]
* Low. Currently, users relying on the --gpgpu parameter have no NVIDIA
kernel modules, which prevents them from actually using the NVIDIA GPU.
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ubuntu-drivers install --gpgpu should use a DKMS fallback when no
linux-modules-nvidia package is available.
Currently, we do not deal with this kind of failure i.e. when no
linux-modules-nvidia package is available for the kernel in use. If no
such package can be found, we need to at least attempt installing the
relevant DKMS package, so that users get the required kernel modules.
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