Device driver or software driver program allowing higher-level computer programs to interact with a hardware device.

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Will Ubuntu run on an AMD 6 core processor and ATI graphics card? [closed]

I'm building a computer with AMD 6 core process and its respective motherboard takes ATI or Nvidia as graphic cards, Ram 32GB, HDD 2x3TB, usb2.0/3.0 ports. I want to know if I'm correct by saying ...
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Cannon MP 3150 driver

I thinks this question has been asked already, but I didn't get things working anyway. I need to find and install a scanner driver for the Canon MP3150 printer/scanner. I was told that I could fiund ...
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How to configure glidepoint driver for touchpad?

After using the hack described in : Alps Touchpad on Dell: how do I install the DKMS driver to enable multitouch?, I'm able to get somewhat functional touchpad for a laptop Dell Latititude E6430 using ...
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How can I find the correct display driver?

These is lshw print: -display UNCLAIMED description: VGA compatible controller product: NV17 [GeForce4 420 Go] vendor: NVIDIA Corporation ...
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Wireless Not Working in ubuntu 12.10

My Wireless is not running. I tried for the solutions found in the internet. Many solutions had told me to go through some steps and one of the step was to run $ sudo modprobe ath9k, But When I run ...
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Problem with TP-Link wireless Adapter

TP-Link WLAN Receiver - Model: TL-WN725N I Cant get it to work... i plug it, i use ubuntu 12.10, and it wont discover the networks When i try to connect to my home network, is always asking for the ...
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Difficulties in installing ndiswrapper-1.58

please help me in installing ndiswrapper-1.58. Currently i am on uBuntu 12.10 and trying to install TRENDnet Wireless N PCI Adapter (TEW-643PI) into my computer. Therein lies the problem as i am a ...
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MythTV “crashing unexpectedly, exit code 127” after installation of older nVidia Drivers

I'm trying to set up an old Dell Dimension 4600 as a DVR using MythUbuntu. The MythUbuntu installed fine, however after I installed the driver for the graphics card, an nVidia GeForce 4 MX (old), the ...
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cannot transfer packet via serial COMM

I have a Linux Ubuntu installed on an Intel Panel PC. My code did not run so, I checked out packet transfer using cutecom. It does OPEN THE PORT successfully, but no data is transfered. I plugged the ...
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Installing Drivers from ATI Website? [duplicate]

When I click About This Computer -> Graphics, it shows none. Also the fan of my Laptop is always on even though CPU usage is below 5%, hence it is wasting tremendous amount of electricity because the ...
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Unable to Run Nvidia Settings

I am using Dell Latitude E6510 laptop with Ubuntu 12.10 running on it. It has Nvidia GT218 NVS 3100M. I am using Gnome-Fallback mode. My problem is that my laptop was just working fine. However, it ...
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Do Nvidia drivers work better than AMD drivers? [duplicate]

I am pulling my hair out trying to get AMD's graphics drivers to work on Ubuntu. I have an AMD A4-5300 with an integrated graphics card. I am planning on getting a Nvidia driver but I am curious if I ...
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Better driver for synaptics touchpads

If any of you have a dual-partitioned machine running Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.10 (or 12.04), you probably know that the touchpad drivers in Ubuntu are pretty terrible compared to Windows. This is ...
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Does Ubuntu support GetForce Nvidia GT630 2GB video card?

I have GetForce Nvidia GT630 2GB video card. Does Ubuntu 12.04.2 support this video card? If yes, please help me find a driver for it.
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is there specific drivers for Lenovo ideapad z570

I am running Ubuntu 12.04.1 on my Lenovo ideapad z570 (without LTS enablements). Everything works good. But it has OneKey Recovery button, which is a quick and easy to way back up and recover system ...
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Bluetooth,Nvidia graphics card and Wireless connection not working in ASUS x53s

10 on ASUS X53SC. The Bluetooth and wireless are working on win 7 but not in Ubuntu. i am having NVIDIA GEFORCE GT 520MX, and BLUETOOTH 3.0. Please help me... while typing lspci.. 00:00.0 Host ...
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WiFi / WLAN not working in Ubuntu 12.10 HP Pavilion Sleekbook

My PC is not detecting WiFi. ifconfig specifies eth0 and lo but not wlan. Following recent posts I installed following drivers firmware-b43-installer and b43-fwcutter and rebooted the system. WLAN ...
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Ubuntu WPA connection issues with Linksys WUSB54GC

I am currently experiencing issues with my Ubuntu 12.10 when using my USB wifi adapter (WUSB54GC) and WPA-Personal on my Router. The connection would run stable for many hours and then it would start ...
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Can not get rid of too new NVIDIA driver from initrd

I run kernel 3.5.0-27-generic on Ubuntu 12.10 (Pretzlyquantumbear!?) Somehow, I have installed Nvidia driver 310.32, and X11 will not start unless I at each boot go and run make install in ...
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asus pce-ac66 wireless card

Are there any driver packages for the ASUS PCE-AC66 wireless card for Linux or Ubuntu Linux? If there aren't any drivers then I say to the developers that it's time. The reason for this little ...
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Installing fglrx 13.3 with powerxpress on Ubuntu 13.04

When trying to install fgrlx 13.3 from the AMD website, the installation goes smoothly, but when I to aticonfig --initial -f, I get the following error: Uninitialised file found, configuring. ...
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Unity/GNOME/GTK3 & Other Desktop Issues

Well, it's been about a week, and i'm quite frustrated. I just recently installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my desktop, and i've run into more than a few problems along the way. First, it began with having ...
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Can't Install UVC drivers: “implicit declaration of function 'x' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]”

I am working on a project for my final year project which involves the use of a web-cam. I bought an external one and tried to install new drivers for it. Now my integrated web-cam won't work. My ...
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Is there any standard tool for checking hardware and drivers?

I have installed Ubuntu 12.1- on my Dell Inspiron 15r 3rd gen Laptop. It has ATI Radeon 7670m graphics card. How do I install drivers for all my hardware safely? Currently gesture of trackpad, fan ...
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Monitor flickering ATI

I'm using ubuntu 12.10 on laptop samsung with randeon hd 6620g (APU A8), when I run amdcccle -version it says 2.18, not sure if that's the correct version. My problem is that I have and external ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 Daily won't boot at all in upstream VirtualBox [duplicate]

I managed to use Unity (slowly) and then installed Lubuntu. I restarted the machine and now I CAN'T GET X TO LOAD ON TTY7. I can switch to login terminals though. jockey-text tells me that I am using ...
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How to install Perrix gaming mouse on Ubuntu?

When I put my gaming mouse into the USB slot the light comes on but my cursor won't move and the buttons won't work. I stupidly threw away the CD that came with the mouse but they have the program ...
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Problem installing ATI driver 13.3 beta on Ubuntu Precise 12.04

OS: Ubuntu Precise 12.04 LTS 64 bit Kernel : 3.5.0-27-generic Header files: dpkg -s linux-headers-$(uname -r) Package: linux-headers-3.5.0-27-generic Status: install ok installed deb ...
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Very slow wireless connection speed (RT3072)

on my computer is very slow wireless. OS: Ubuntu desktop 12.04 i386 lsusb: Bus 003 Device 002: ID 07d1:3c0a D-Link System DWA-140 RangeBooster N Adapter(rev.B2) [Ralink RT3072] iwconfig: ...
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Lenovo ideapad Y500 Problem drivers (Ubuntu 12.04)

The screen resolution can not be assigned indicates that is 1920 x 1080 but everything looks very small I think it's nvidia driver problem Webcam does not work hdmi output video only Someone could fix ...
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Ubuntu 11.10 on Dell Optiplex 9010.

My computer - desktop (three in one) Dell Optiplex 9010 - came pre-installed with Ubuntu 11.10 64 bit. How can I update its drivers? e.g. video, audio, network drivers
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What is the VESA:WRESTLER driver and why am I using it?

I just installed the proprietary fglrx-updates driver: However, when I check the Graphics, it's shown to be VESA:WRESTLER: What is this VESA:WRESTLER driver and why am I using it? Is it just ...
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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5400 Series drivers for Ubuntu 12.10

I tried to install ATI binary X.Org driver for my graphic card(ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5400 Series) in Ubuntu 12.10 but it didn't work. After some googling I found that the latest drivers are not ...
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How to understand nvidia-settings save configuration options?

After installing a proprietary driver for my nvidia graphics card gksu nvidia-settings was run from terminal Through which have checked the configuration of my graphics card but am unsure where ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 Cannot get Epson L210 to work with Scanner (Xsane) [closed]

I have Ubuntu 12.04 installed. I just bought an Epson L210 print/copy/scanner. I can use it to print, but cannot get it to work with Xsane or Simple Scan. I downloaded the Linux driver for this ...
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Issues with Unity after installing and uninstalling FGLRX again

I tried to install FGLRX drivers on Ubuntu 13.04, but that didn't work out. I then went back to the open source drivers (via update-manager) but I couldn't boot into a graphical OS. I got a black ...
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I don't have sound

I have checked to see if my onboard analog audio is what is being recognized by ubuntu and it isn't. I recently installed a new nvidia graphics card and the audio is being recognized as that instead ...
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Nvidia card installation error - ubuntu 10.04

Im trying to setup my Nvidia card GT555M on my Ubuntu 10.04 (x64) No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS Release: 10.04 Codename: lucid ...
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I can't install video driver for ATI RadeonHD 2400

I have Ubuntu 12.04 and can't install driver for ATI RadeonHD 2400. I tried different ways: Additional driver can't find nothing I downloaded the driver from here. After run in terminal sudo sh ./. ...
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Screen brightness not working (Sony T Series) [duplicate]

I have a Sony T-Series notebook with an Intel HD 4000 graphics card. I use Ubuntu 12.04. The brightness control of the screen does not work (doesn't matter if I do it with the keyboard or in the ...
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Update to latest version of OpenGL

I recently installed TF2 and CS:S on my Ubuntu and it was showing nothing but a black screen (I could still hear the sounds) and after searching a bit I found out it may be my OpenGL version. After ...
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Install Brother MFC 7360N for beginners

IIm running Ubuntu and want to install my Brother MFC 7360N printer scanner fax. I've tried to just plug in the USB cable, but the only two drivers Ubuntu shows don't work. One of them doesn't react ...
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how to solve “/lib/modules/3.5.0-17-generic/build: no such file or directory” error

I installed ubuntu 12.10 64 bit on my desktop HP Elite 7500, but I have no ethernet connection. I have an Atheros ethernet card is. I have downloaded drivers to install. I extracted files. When I try ...
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Panel, launcher, etc disappear? Upgrading is also difficult. [duplicate]

This is sort of a two-part question. I started off in 12.04 and decided to upgrade to 13.04 beta last week. There were some errors during that process that seemed to do with it thinking there was no ...
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Wireless not working - HP Pavilion 15 slim

I have just completed the install of Ubuntu 12.10 64bit on my HP Pavilion 15 Slim, and there is no wifi in the corner to allow me to connect. Any advice? Thanks
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Grapich Card Problem after update

semary@SemarY-PC:~$ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Unable to lock the administration directory ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Bluetooth issues

I have a HP Envy h8-1534 (http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport...riesId=5330773) which according to lspci is 06:00.1 Bluetooth: Ralink corp. Device 3298 | lspci -n 06:00.1 0d11: 1814:3298. I've been ...
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How to remove serial port dirver support

I want to remove my serial port support from my Ubuntu 10.04. So somebody can guide me? Please tell me the steps so that I can remove that support from my PC parmenantly or temporary.
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New installation 12.10 on HP d530 gets stuck on red screen

I installed ubuntu 12.10 on a HP d530 machine and after a successful install the reboot gets stuck on a reddish screen witch i thinks is pre gnome. I think it has to do something with the graphics ...
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Does the ScanSnap IX500 work with Ubuntu?

Fujitsu just released their latest scanner, the ScanSnap IX500. Does this scanner work with Ubuntu, or Linux in general?

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