having trouble with Driver Manager

[Nymeria]

HELLO
thanks in advance for helping.
I have not been able to connect to Driver Manager lately; The problem is whenever I start Driver Manager the download catch window starts up but few seconds later it pops up this error massage Failed to download repository information
Check your Internet connection. and in the driver manager window the only option for driver is continue using a manually installed driver .
So how to fix that and use my nvidia driver.
and i have another question what exactly "continue using a manually installed driver" mean? Can that issue be harmful??

[natch_gazziza]

Do you have Spotify installed? I had an issue which might be the same as this, and fixed it.

[Nymeria]

Do you have Spotify installed? I had an issue which might be the same as this, and fixed it.

No i am not.

[gm10]

Do you require usage of a proxy configured? That tends to cause issues.

[Nymeria]

Do you require usage of a proxy configured? That tends to cause issues.

No i'm not using any proxy.

[gm10]

Then maybe it's the old classic, disable IPv6 in your network connection settings, reconnect and see how that goes.

[natch_gazziza]

When I had this issue it was because I hadn't added the spotify repository key. When driver manager started, it would attempt to load from that repo, fail, and tell me to check the internet connection. What sources can you see when you open up "Software Sources"?

[Nymeria]

Then maybe it's the old classic, disable IPv6 in your network connection settings, reconnect and see how that goes.

did that; doesn't work.

[gm10]

No idea then, at least if an

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apt update

in terminal window works (if not post the error message).

[Nymeria]

No idea then, at least if an

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apt update

in terminal window works (if not post the error message).

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Ign:1 http://packages.linuxmint.com tessa InRelease                            
Hit:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease                        
Hit:3 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease                     
Hit:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu bionic InRelease           
Get:5 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease [88.7 kB]    
Hit:6 http://packages.linuxmint.com tessa Release                              
Get:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease [88.7 kB]      
Get:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease [74.6 kB]    
Err:10 https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org bionic InRelease              
  Could not connect to deb.torproject.org:443 (d0::11), connection timed out
Fetched 252 kB in 31s (8,253 B/s)             
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
412 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
W: Failed to fetch https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/dists/bionic/InRelease  Could not connect to deb.torproject.org:443 (d0::11), connection timed out
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

[gm10]

Alright, there you go, either an issue in your network or with the torproject.org server your network is connecting to (works fine from my end). You can either wait until that issue fixes itself or go disable the repository for now (see Software Sources > Additional Repositories).

[Nymeria]

When I had this issue it was because I hadn't added the spotify repository key. When driver manager started, it would attempt to load from that repo, fail, and tell me to check the internet connection. What sources can you see when you open up "Software Sources"?

2 sources both tor project
I've gotta say deb.torproject.org is censored in my region think thats the problem
and i checked the mirror links in software sources which are reachable

[Nymeria]

Alright, there you go, either an issue in your network or with the torproject.org server your network is connecting to (works fine from my end). You can either wait until that issue fixes itself or go disable the repository for now (see Software Sources > Additional Repositories).

Thank you i did that but torproject.org is censored in my country and the only sources in Software Sources are that only if i uncheck them i have no sources.
i unchecked them and started driver manager again no error massage this time but still i can't change the driver all options still grayed out.

[natch_gazziza]

If your have Nvidia card:

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sudo apt-get purge nvidia*
sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall

I also had the greyed out bug and this solved it for me

*edit* Sorry I don't know the commands for AMD drivers but you could probs just google how to remove them, and ubuntu-drivers autoinstall should work anyway

[gm10]

I've gotta say deb.torproject.org is censored in my region think thats the problem

That is unfortunate. The only way around state censorship is a VPN usually (unless they are only blocking the DNS requests, in which case you could just enter the address in /etc/hosts, but you'll know better than I what they are censoring).

but still i can't change the driver all options still grayed out.

Driver Manager greys out the options if you manually installed a driver, i.e. not from a repository, because you would not be able to switch back to it, at least not via Driver Manager.

[Nymeria]

If your have Nvidia card:

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sudo apt-get purge nvidia*
sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall

I also had the greyed out bug and this solved it for me

*edit* Sorry I don't know the commands for AMD drivers but you could probs just google how to remove them, and ubuntu-drivers autoinstall should work anyway

Dude i did what you said and rebooted now my linux os doesn't boot up
It's only all black on the screen

[natch_gazziza]

Do you have nvidia drivers?

[Nymeria]

Yes

[natch_gazziza]

When you ran ubuntu-drivers autoinstall, did it all go okay? No idea why it would do that, I have removed and reinstalled the nvidia drivers more than a couple of times (had some issues with it including the greyed out bug you experienced) and that has never happened to me. Try logging in (Ctrl + Alt + F1, then type your login details) and reinstalling the ubuntu-drivers. Apart from that, I feel like I'm getting out of my depth here and I don't wanna totally brick your system. I'm really sorry, that has never happened to me.

[Nymeria]

When you ran ubuntu-drivers autoinstall, did it all go okay? No idea why it would do that, I have removed and reinstalled the nvidia drivers more than a couple of times (had some issues with it including the greyed out bug you experienced) and that has never happened to me. Try logging in (Ctrl + Alt + F1, then type your login details) and reinstalling the ubuntu-drivers. Apart from that, I feel like I'm getting out of my depth here and I don't wanna totally brick your system. I'm really sorry, that has never happened to me.

Thank you it's alright no hard fellings
i'll work something out