"Driver management software" in System Settings can't see any hardware

[mrcannibal]

There is not much to tell about this issue other than it gets perpetually stuck at "collecting information about your system" and never shows any nvidia drivers for graphic's card or microcodes for the processor. The "refresh driver list" option remains greyed out as well. The card is an NVIDIA GeForce 920M.

So far, I've only bumped into this problem only on Kubuntu 16.04. Xubuntu Xenial and Ubuntu Gnome Xenial had no issues finding the drivers and installing them.

[claydoh]

Known issue mentioned here a few times, as well as reported on launchpad.

No fix yet though, unfortunately. Drivers can still be installed using a package manager or the command-line, though.

[acheron]

ubuntu-drivers list

in terminal should tell you what is insallable.

then you can manually install your choice with apt/apt-get/muon/other package manager

[mrwaistcoat]

I have the same issue, not sure if I need to take any action?

ubuntu-drivers list shows intel-microcode. Synaptic shows that's already installed

But when I open additional drivers (I know it's broken) it shows no propriety drivers in use

So is my driver in use or not?

#confused!

[acheron]

Try running in terminal

sudo apt-get install apt-xapian-index
sudo update-apt-xapian-index

and then try the driver manager again?

[mrwaistcoat]

Try running in terminal

sudo apt-get install apt-xapian-index
sudo update-apt-xapian-index

and then try the driver manager again?

Nice one, that sorted it!
Cheers

[acheron]

Nice one, that sorted it!
Cheers

Great.

There is a fix in the libqapt3 for Yakkety, so that problem is fixed there for anyone installing anew.

Hopefully with the appropriate QA that will be an update for Xenial as well.

[Shaikailash]

I just installed a fresh kubuntu 16.04 and the driver manager is not working...the xapian solution does not work either.

[Snowhog]

The 'xapian solution' doesn't fix the issue with the Driver Manager, which is (was) 'broken'. See posts #2 and #3 below for identifying and installing 'manually'.

[acheron]

I just installed a fresh kubuntu 16.04 and the driver manager is not working...the xapian solution does not work either.

Odd. It should. After running update-apt-xapian-index on a fresh Xenial re-install I did last week, the driver manager comes to life and works nicely here.

(excuse the dark theme)

[ThGeo]

Nope it DOES NOT work at all.
Shall I give up and try other distribution?

[claydoh]

Only if you want to. Not all distros have this sort of tool as even without it it is still pretty easy to install them via a package manager

If the command line does not bother you,

sudo ubuntu-drivers devices

will show you what devices have non-free drivers available, if any, and which versions you can install, and point out the recommended one

sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall

will install any recommended non-free drivers, if available

You can also use the information given to install the packages via a package manager.

[ThGeo]

Huge thanks.
I will give the ultimate try and then inform you about the results. Hope strongly....

PS
I do not want to. I rally do appreciate Kubuntu and I have been stil truly impressed by its beauty.
If I only could make the Driver Manager work properly...

[ThGeo]

Done. With no results apparently. I have proceeded with those two commends in Konsole and the system has been hang on for several minutes with the screen full of magic charms beginning with (first or second line) BUG information about Kernel...

Just has rebooted suddenly...
Wow, the wifi network is available. This should be a sign that some drivers have been successfully installed.
The Driver Manager has been stil empty though.

Thank you very much for your precious piece of advice.
Do you think the unfortunate bug (as if there could be some fortunate ones will be fixed soon?

[jglen490]

Hmmm. Just did a fresh install of 16.04.1 and initially the Driver Manager showed nothing. However, after doing the update-apt-xapian-index routine in sudo, it took a moment or two, but Driver Manager shows the correct info - now that I've installed nvidia-340.