Public bug reported: I am trying to activate nvidia-driver-390 for my graphics card instead of nouveau. The graphical interface of the Driver Manager detects my GPU and the available drivers but selecting nvidia-driver-390 seems to have no effect (the packages have already been installed but nouveau is still used).
Running kcmshell5 kcm_driver_manager in the console enabled me to get the following messages. Usage was to select nvidia-driver-390 and click Apply. QDBusArgument& operator<<(QDBusArgument&, const DeviceList&) is noop kf5.kwidgetsaddons: No frame loaded kf5.kwidgetsaddons: No frame loaded kf5.kwidgetsaddons: No frame loaded const QDBusArgument& operator>>(const QDBusArgument&, DeviceList&) Dev( id: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0" modalias: "pci:v000010DEd000013BBsv000010DEsd00001098bc03sc00i00" model: "GM107GL [Quadro K620]" vendor: "NVIDIA Corporation" driver("nvidia-driver-396" recommended[true] free[true] fromDistro[false] builtin[false] manualInstall[false] fuzzyActive[false] package[0x0]) driver("nvidia-driver-390" recommended[false] free[true] fromDistro[false] builtin[false] manualInstall[false] fuzzyActive[false] package[0x0]) driver("nvidia-340" recommended[false] free[true] fromDistro[false] builtin[false] manualInstall[false] fuzzyActive[false] package[0x0]) driver("xserver-xorg-video-nouveau" recommended[false] free[true] fromDistro[true] builtin[true] manualInstall[false] fuzzyActive[false] package[0x0]) ) kf5.kwidgetsaddons: No frame loaded kf5.kwidgetsaddons: No frame loaded kf5.kwidgetsaddons: No frame loaded not reporting "xserver-xorg-video-nouveau" because it is builtin ("nvidia-driver-390") ("nvidia-340", "nvidia-driver-396") kf5.kwidgetsaddons: No frame loaded kf5.kwidgetsaddons: No frame loaded kf5.kwidgetsaddons: No frame loaded const QDBusArgument& operator>>(const QDBusArgument&, DeviceList&) Dev( id: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0" modalias: "pci:v000010DEd000013BBsv000010DEsd00001098bc03sc00i00" model: "GM107GL [Quadro K620]" vendor: "NVIDIA Corporation" driver("nvidia-driver-396" recommended[true] free[true] fromDistro[false] builtin[false] manualInstall[false] fuzzyActive[false] package[0x0]) driver("nvidia-driver-390" recommended[false] free[true] fromDistro[false] builtin[false] manualInstall[false] fuzzyActive[false] package[0x0]) driver("nvidia-340" recommended[false] free[true] fromDistro[false] builtin[false] manualInstall[false] fuzzyActive[false] package[0x0]) driver("xserver-xorg-video-nouveau" recommended[false] free[true] fromDistro[true] builtin[true] manualInstall[false] fuzzyActive[false] package[0x0]) ) kf5.kwidgetsaddons: No frame loaded kf5.kwidgetsaddons: No frame loaded kf5.kwidgetsaddons: No frame loaded ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: kubuntu-driver-manager 15.10ubuntu4 Uname: Linux 4.17.0-996-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: KDE Date: Tue Aug 7 09:32:36 2018 InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-09-07 (698 days ago) InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1) SourcePackage: kubuntu-driver-manager UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-07-01 (36 days ago) ** Affects: kubuntu-driver-manager (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bionic third-party-packages -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1785761 Title: Selecting proprietary driver seems to have no effect To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kubuntu-driver-manager/+bug/1785761/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs