NVidia proprietary drivers were not installed

Asked by Carlos Nihelton

Not sure if that's a bug or a feature, but per test case http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/437/builds/255601/testcases/1718 the Nvidia proprietary drivers should be unconditionally installed, so that's either a bug on the installer or on the test case itself.

My device (Acer Aspire A515-52G-57NL) is equipped with an Intel i5-8265U processor (UHD Graphics 620) with a Nvidia GeForce MX130 GPU. I expected that by checking the box "Install third-party software..." as instructed in step 6, I'd get the Nvidia driver installed, but that didn't happen in any of the two installation attempts I made. The system booted, enrolling MOK was successful, but there was only Mesa Intel graphics driver, thus the commands `nvidia-smi` and `nvidia-settings` could not run, suggesting a failure on steps 25 and 26 of the test case.

By manually installing `nvidia-utils-515` and `nvidia-settings` I could achieve the results expected in steps 25 and 26, but that required me (the user) enabling network and explicitly installing the required packages.

I wonder if the fact that the intel device is capable of displaying full graphics lead to the choice of skipping the Nvidia driver.

ISO used for the tests (the current one at the moment of this writing): https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/jammy/daily-live/20220809/jammy-desktop-amd64.iso

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Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100) said :
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Could you also try it on the 22.04 release installer by any chance? http://releases.ubuntu.com/22.04/ubuntu-22.04-desktop-amd64.iso

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Carlos Nihelton (cnihelton) said :
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Testing the 22.04 release ISO, the installer did install the NVidia driver (but not the nvidia-settings app).

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) said :
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I'm setting this to "Solved" as a fix is currently in progress and we are tracking that in the related bug report.