System Info not recognizing graphics

[Lars Noodén]

System Settings->System Info->Overview
 shows "unknown" for Graphics. It should show the brand and model

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10

From lshw:

         *-display
                description: VGA compatible controller
                product: C79 [GeForce 9400]
                vendor: nVidia Corporation
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
                version: b1
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
                configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0
                resources: irq:22 memory:d2000000-d2ffffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff memory:d0000000-d1ffffff ioport:1000(size=128) memory:d3000000-d301ffff

[Lars Noodén (larsnooden)]

Still present in Precise:

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu precise (development branch)
Release: 12.04

[Marco Biscaro (marcobiscaro2112)]

It looks like a bug in gnome-control-center, not in unity.

[Sam_ (and-sam)]

Marking as dupe of but 865957.
As a workaround please install mesa-utils.