NVS 5200M not supported by 435, but is recommended by ubuntu-drivers

[Andreas Nadobnik]

I have a Dell Laptop with a NVS 5200M (0DFC) and wondered why ubuntu-drivers recommend the nvidia-driver-435 (and also the wrong driver 430). It won't work with these drivers.

$ ubuntu-drivers devices
== /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0 ==
modalias : pci:v000010DEd00000DFCsv00001028sd00000535bc03sc00i00
vendor : NVIDIA Corporation
model : GF108GLM [NVS 5200M]
driver : nvidia-340 - distro non-free
driver : nvidia-driver-435 - distro non-free recommended
driver : nvidia-driver-430 - distro non-free
driver : nvidia-driver-390 - distro non-free
driver : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
Release: 18.04

I found the modalias in the packages nvidia-driver-435 and also in the package of the nvidia-driver-430. In the Nvidia READMEs you can find that the NVS 5200M (0DFC) is only supported up to 390.

I opened an issue on https://github.com/tseliot/nvidia-graphics-drivers/issues/36 and tseliot told me it could be a parsing problem of the Nvidia READMEs.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package nvidia-graphics-drivers-435 - 435.21-0ubuntu6

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nvidia-graphics-drivers-435 (435.21-0ubuntu6) focal; urgency=medium

  * debian/rules,
    debian/nvidia_supported:
    - Fix code to add device IDs, and make it more obvious when we are
      adding them, so that we can see it in the build log.
    - Fix device ID extraction from the README file (LP: #1856166).

 -- Alberto Milone <email address hidden> Fri, 24 Jan 2020 10:32:14 +0100