Public bug reported:

tested by Dell Inspiron 3542 (CID 201402-14684) on 14.04 and 14.10 daily
build

Steps to reproduce the bugs:
1. install the system
2. click 'Software center'-->Preference-->Additional drivers,
or, use the command 'ubuntu-driver list'

Expected result:
the system should suggest nvidia-graphics-drivers-331 driver package because
there is a nvidia graphic card
NVIDIA Corporation GF117M [GeForce 610M/710M/820M / GT 620M/625M/630M/720M] 
[10de:1140]

Actual result:
It didn't suggest any graphic driver to be used.


------ lspci -nnvv -d 10de:1140 ------

08:00.0 3D controller [0302]: NVIDIA Corporation GF117M [GeForce 610M/710M/820M 
/ GT 620M/625M/630M/720M] [10de:1140] (rev a1)
        Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0652]
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- 
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- 
<MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 63
        Region 0: Memory at f6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Region 1: Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        Region 3: Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
        Region 5: I/O ports at d000 [size=128]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at f7000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: nvidia


------ more information ------

* apt-cache show nvidia-331 | grep 0625
doesn't give you the expected modalias of the graphic card under sysfs

* manual installation of nvidia-331 could enable the graphic card and
works fine.

$ dpkg -l | grep nvidia
ii  nvidia-331                                            331.79-0ubuntu1       
                                                                                
                   amd64        NVIDIA binary driver - version 331.79
ii  nvidia-libopencl1-331                                 331.79-0ubuntu1       
                                                                                
                   amd64        NVIDIA OpenCL Driver and ICD Loader library
ii  nvidia-opencl-icd-331                                 331.79-0ubuntu1       
                                                                                
                   amd64        NVIDIA OpenCL ICD
ii  nvidia-prime                                          0.6.5                 
                                                                                
                   amd64        Tools to enable NVIDIA's Prime
ii  nvidia-settings                                       331.20-0ubuntu8       
                                                                                
                   amd64        Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver

** Affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers-331 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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  [Dell Inspiron 3542] 'ubuntu-driver list' does not suggest to use
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