Device driver or software driver program allowing higher-level computer programs to interact with a hardware device.
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How well do laptops with Nvidia Optimus work?
I am considering buying a Dell XPS 15 laptop. The laptop has a Nvidia 420m card which should work with Linux but I keep reading that the Nvidia Optimus technology isn't supported on Linux. I am not ...
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2answers
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What is the correct way to install Nvidia Video Drivers
I just ordered the Nvidia GTX 560 card, which should arrive tomorrow. I have a dilemma, though. Should I keep using the driver which is available in "additional drivers" in Ubuntu (10.10), or should I ...
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3answers
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How do I install extra drivers?
I've just installed Ubuntu and I need either video, wireless, or some sort of other manufacturer (non-opensource) driver; how can I run the tool that will fetch all of these for me? I'd like graphical ...
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3answers
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Is my ATI graphics card supported in Ubuntu?
I have an ATI graphics card and I want to know if it is supported and what kind of drivers should I be running to get the best features out of it.
Is my card supported in Ubuntu and what drivers will ...
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2answers
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How can I get my graphics card to be recognized in System Info?
I am new to Linux/Ubuntu. I installed Ubuntu 11.10 on my Lenovo IdeaPad y510.
System info says
Graphics: unknown.
Driver: unknown,
Experience: Standard.
What should I do to use all my ...
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6answers
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Wireless card Realtek RTL8723AE-BT is not recognized
I bought a new laptop with a RTL8723AE-BT wireless card, but it seems there is nothing that makes it work.
Realtek usually makes drivers available for its card, but this specific one doesn't have a ...
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1answer
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My WiFi adapter is not working at all. Where to start troubleshooting?
On this site I see hundreds if not a thousand questions being asked about issues with a Wireless LAN adapter not being detected/recognized by Ubuntu. Some mainstream adapters appear to be utterly ...
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11answers
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How do I get my Broadcom BCM4313 working correctly?
I've installed ubuntu on a Asus 1015 netbook. Everything worked out of the box except for the Wireless adapter, which i had to install with the Additional Drivers application.
It apparently installed ...
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3answers
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How do I remove the propretary ATI drivers?
I've installed 11.10 and the proprietary ATI drivers using "additional drivers" The performance of my system is absolutely awful and it shouldn't be. I tried to remove the proprietary drivers using ...
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2answers
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How to make LBP-1120 Canon printer work?
Initially this question was limited to 11.10. Now I am in (Lubuntu) 12.10. (On the changes in the question see this meta question).
Considering 11.10
I have tried different (or not so different) ...
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3answers
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How do I get an Acer Npilfy 802.11 wireless card working?
My Laptop is Acer 5742G with "Npilfy 802.11 wireless".
I have both windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.10
Earlier when I had Ubuntu 12.04, the wireless was working fine, but after installing 12.10 wireless is ...
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8answers
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Nvidia driver activated but currently not in use
I have just finished an install of ubuntu 11.04 beta 2. At the end of the installation I got a message informing that I do not have the required hardware for unity, and that I should choose "ubuntu ...
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3answers
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How to switch between hybrid Graphics Intel/nVidia?
I have a Samsung NP-QX411. It has two graphics cards, Intel and nVidia. The Intel drivers were quickly found and is fully functional. But nVidia, I have tried installing several drivers in different ...
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2answers
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How do I install drivers for an Intel HD Graphics?
In System Info in 11.10, the graphics driver wasn't detected. I use ACER Aspire 4750 with Intel Core i3-2340M and Intel HD Graphics 3000 graphic card
How to install the driver for my Ubuntu?
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6answers
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How do I fix my installation of ATI Catalyst Video Driver in 12.04 LTS?
My graphic card is a Mobility Radeon HD 4200 Series.
I tried these 2 answers from What is the correct way to install ATI Catalyst Video Drivers in 12.04 LTS?
But unfortunately, it does not work for ...
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3answers
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ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics install fails, how can I resolve the problem?
I want to activate ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver (post-release update), but there is a problem during installation. It says:
Sorry, installation of this driver failed.
Please ...
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2answers
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How do I install drivers for the Atheros AR8161 Ethernet controller?
I have installed Ubuntu 12.04-64 bit on my Lenovo IdeaPad laptop, and the wired Ethernet (LAN) connection doesn't work.
Running the lspci -vv | grep Atheros command from the terminal shows me I have ...
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1answer
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Unity does not start in Ubuntu 13.04
I have upgraded to Ubuntu 13.04 and I cannot use Unity. I have tried the proprietary driver, both from the official sources and from AMD's website. I have also tried using the open source x.org ...
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6answers
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How do I install BCM4312 wireless drivers? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to Install Broadcom / STA Wireless card (BCM43XX)
completely new to Ubuntu. How do I add Wireless driver for my laptop? I am running a Dell XPS M1330. Right now its ...
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1answer
901 views
Super slow and laggy?
I'm a native Windows user, running 7 Home Premium atm. In the past I installed Ubuntu 10 on my netbook I believe, but was a bit 'scared' by it.
Anyways, I made a partition on my desktop pc, 100gb and ...
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Blank screen after installing nvidia restricted driver
I've installed the current nvidia restricted driver and rebooted my machine and now I get a black or blank screen.
How can I fix this?
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2answers
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How do I install latest NVIDIA drivers by hand?
This is what I am trying to do. I downloaded the latest driver for my VGA from http://www.nvidia.com. The installation needs the X11 to be shut down, so I log out of my account, then press ...
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2answers
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Why is my internet so slow with an Atheros wireless card?
Since I upgraded from Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04, my internet connection is as slow as hell. I have tested my other 10.10 machine and it is just as quick as the first one was.
What has happened? Why is ...
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4answers
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Drivers for Realtek wireless module for Toshiba C850-A965?
I just bought a new Toshiba system, and before installing Ubuntu, I tried it out on a live CD. Unfortunately, Ubuntu doesn't recognize any wireless adapter.
$ sudo lshw -c network
*-network ...
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How-to remove “amd unsupported hardware” without reinstalling the driver? [duplicate]
I installed driver from Additional drivers.... AMD Radeon HD 6450
My resolution is at maximum and Catalist Control Center is working but I have AMD Unsupported hardware image on the right bottom of ...
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1answer
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Wacom Bamboo Capture CTH-470 Pen and Touch not working
I am trying to get my new Bamboo Pen&Touch tablet to work on ubuntu.
I tried following the guide on this page; I installed and updated the wacom-dkms package, and nothing.
I followed the guide ...
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How to remove the “AMD Testing use only” watermark?
I've installed the latest catalyst driver (beta) following the step in this guide for Ubuntu Quantal Quetzal.
My system is 64 bit and my graphic card is an ATI RadeonHD 6670, this g.c. is Officially ...
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6answers
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Alps Touchpad on Dell: how do I install the DKMS driver to enable multitouch?
Now I know that this has been asked several times here but I couldn't find any decent solution to it.
I am running Ubuntu 12.04 on my DELL N5110 and my touchpad is detected as a mouse, So I don't ...
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3answers
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How do I install .run files?
My PC has both Ubuntu and Windows 7 installed. I have installed all my drivers in Windows like NVidia graphics, motherboard etc. Shall I install them in Ubuntu too?
I looked on the web for my Nvidia ...
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1answer
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How do I install the Intel Graphics driver in my system?
Can someone help me out and explain or point me in the right direction on how to check video drivers and see if my video card running okay?
I had 10.04 installed on my Thinkpad r61 with Compiz ...
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3answers
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How to Install AMD ATI Radeon Graphics HD 6770M on Ubuntu 13.04 64bit
It has been many days now and I tried almost all the methods provided on the internet but I have had no success.
Please help me install my AMD ATI Radeon Graphics HD 6770M on Ubuntu 13.04 64bit.
...
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1answer
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Ubuntu 13.04 - installation Nvidia driver
I've installed Ubuntu 13.04 on my laptop HP 6720s with video card Intel 965 chipset Intel gma x3100. After the boot the classic purple screen appear and before the login page the screen become black ...
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2answers
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ATI 6470m & intel HD graphics 3000 drivers?
I have a Dell 15R 2nd Gen with an ATI 6470m GPU and Intel HD graphics 3000 (form the i5 processor). I just installed Ubuntu 11.10 and can't get the graphics card to install. In system information it ...
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3answers
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Dell Inspiron N5110 Keyboard & Touchpad
I have Dell Laptop " N 5110 "
How do make 2 finger scrolling work + 2 fingers zoom in & zoom out work
How to Fn + f3 To ...
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2answers
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How do I install the latest Nvidia drivers via the Additional Drivers tool?
Well obviously I can do it manually, I was just wondering why aren't these drivers available through "Additional Drivers", and why are the versions available there outdated.
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What's the difference between the nvidia-current, and nvidia-current-updates packages?
What's the difference between the nvidia-current, and nvidia-current-updates packages?
The former has a higher version number, and the description of the packages are the same.
Which do I use?
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5answers
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Can I install extra drivers via the command prompt?
Since I can't seem to open the Additional Drivers program? And how do I know what driver I need to install?
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4answers
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How to install NVIDIA.run?
I have a Nvidia Ge force Ge6150 SE graphics card. I am running ubuntu 12.04. When I try to install the .run file it fails. It shows the message like this:
I Itried to install it after ...
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2answers
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Broadcom 4365 wireless driver with 3.4 / 3.5 kernel [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to Install Broadcom / STA Wireless card (BCM43XX)
I used this package to install the driver on 3.2 Kernel and it was working perfectly.
Unfortunately the system ...
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1answer
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How to try Ubuntu on a hp pavilion g7-1246ef computer that has no Linux suport for video card?
I want to try Ubuntu on a hp pavilion g7-1246ef computer. I got it as a 64 bit system with a win7 64 bit but now it runs a 32 bit win 7 (due to canon printer driver issue).
The Windows device manager ...
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1answer
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Ubuntu 12.10 driver for Epson XP-202
Can anyone advise me if there is a printer driver for an Epson XP-202 printer to work with Ubuntu 12.10?
If not, is there a workaround?
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2answers
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Which nvidia driver from additional drivers option should I choose?
I have NVIDIA Geforece 7025 / nForce 630a integrated gfx card on my UBUNTU 12.04.And I have 4 options in Additional drivers:
NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version 173)
NVIDIA accelerated ...
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4answers
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How to fix “ndiswrapper not found”?
I've been using ndiswrapper to make work some wireless cards using its Windows drivers, because they are not yet supported by free Linux drivers. Until Ubuntu 12.04.
Now, I can install Windows ...
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3answers
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Enabling or Installing D-Link DWM 156 broadband modem?
No support for this USB broadband modem. Does anyone have a clue on how to enable or install it in Ubuntu 12.04?
The device is listed by lsusb as 2001:a80b but in network manager, there is nothing ...
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2answers
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Alternative printing method(s) for an unsupported printer
I have in my office, a Konica Minolta bizhub 211 multifunction printer, it works well with windows workstations... It has a lot of good features, like duplex...
I haven't found any drivers for ...
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3answers
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Installing Realtek 8188 wireless driver fails
When I try and install the RTL8188CUS drivers downloaded from Realtek (using their install.sh shell script) I installed the drivers in 11.04 using individual commands to make, etc., and that worked ...
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2answers
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Support on HP Pavillion g4-1004tx with Intel-AMD Hybrid Graphics
I've got a laptop with Sandy Bridge + Hybrid Graphics and I want to use linux in it. I've tried fedora 15 with no luck (the Radeon not detected but always on and runs with max performance, introducing ...
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3answers
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How do I get a Broadcom BCM4312 wireless card to work? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to Install Broadcom Wireless card (BCM43XX)
I am currently using Ubuntu 10.10 on my laptop , the model of my wireless chip is broadcom BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY .
I ...
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1answer
3k views
How do I install drivers for graphics and sound?
I recently shifted to Ubuntu 12.04 from windows 7. I completely removed Windows and then installed Ubuntu.
However, I can't find a way to download and install drivers for my video and audio hardware ...
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3answers
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Can not install Nvidia driver
I recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my desktop. I have three monitors, and after installing, ubuntu only detected one at 1080p. I downloaded the driver from the nvidia website, but when I stop ...
