Bugzilla – Bug 577045
Sysinfo Display Info Driver field shows "Unknown" after installing Nvidia proprietary driver
Last modified: 2010-02-05 18:48:40 UTC
Created attachment 340759 [details] Display Info PNG file User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.0) Gecko/20100115 SUSE/3.6.0-1.1 Firefox/3.6 After installing the Nvidia proprietary driver followed by running the command: sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia init 5; exit I started sysinfo --> Display Info --> Driver --> Unknown It should show the Nvidia driver version number. The identical information can be found by running the following: glxinfo | grep -i OpenGL OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 8600 GTS/PCI/SSE2 OpenGL version string: 3.2.0 NVIDIA 190.53 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Nvidia proprietary drivers 2. Run: sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia 3. Run: sysinfo / Actual Results: Display Info Vendor: nVidia Corporation Model: GeForce 8600 GTS Driver: Unknown Expected Results: Display Info Vendor: nVidia Corporation Model: GeForce 8600 GTS/PCI/SSE2 Driver: 190.53
Is there a reason, why you report the same bug twice? *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 570200 ***
My understanding was that if you are reviewing a new version of openSUSE, it was okay to submit a separate bug entry. The first one applied to openSUSE 11.2. Since it had not been addressed in openSUSE 11.2. I noticed it again in openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 1 and the problem still persists. So, what you are saying is that a tester can only create a single bug entry for more that one version of openSUSE? Please clarify as I'm still new to Bugzilla. Roman
(In reply to comment #2) > My understanding was that if you are reviewing a new version of openSUSE, it > was okay to submit a separate bug entry. > > The first one applied to openSUSE 11.2. Since it had not been addressed in > openSUSE 11.2. I noticed it again in openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 1 and the problem > still persists. > > So, what you are saying is that a tester can only create a single bug entry for > more that one version of openSUSE? Yes, it would be better to change the product of the bug to the newer version with a comment like "Still reproducible with openSUSE XYZ."
Okay. Thank you for pointing this out. Can we see this issue resolved when openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 2 is released?
(In reply to comment #4) > Okay. Thank you for pointing this out. Can we see this issue resolved when > openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 2 is released? I do only bug screening for KDE bugs on openSUSE so I cannot tell you for sure, but I doubt it, as there are much more critical bugs to be taken care of.
I understand. And, I agree, we have more critical bugs to be addressed. However, this bug was not fixed for the entire version of openSUSE 11.2 including all milestones. Now, I'm seeing this happen again with a very new version. I thought we could "nip it in the bud" early. The thing is that information missing from "sysinfo" is important for all users - new and old users. We also have people reviewing the distro for possible purchase not to mention magazine reviews.