Proprietary means software (like an application or driver) that is not open-source. It is owned by a particular company or individual who is not willing to give out its source code, or does not allow the source to be used, changed, and redistributed. A common example of proprietary software in ...
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Proprietary ATI Driver fglrx kills my Video
So, I'll explain the problem, but first I want to cry aloud PLEASE HELP!
I've used Ubuntu 12.04 for more than half an year and everything is set up just the way I want it. But I did a stupid mistake ...
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AMD A8-4500 APU with Radeon HD 7640g
I have installed many versions of Linux lately, trying to free myself from windows, I have played with Linux over that past few years, but I was into gaming, and until recently couldn't fully commit ...
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Cant uninstall ati drivers after failed install
I have been trying to hammer out the installation of the ati proprietary drivers for Ubuntu/Precise. I have been following the tutorial at ...
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13.04, 12.10, 12.04 NVIDIA drivers do not work whatsoever
I have been using (or trying to use) Ubuntu for a while now. I cannot for the life of me get any proprietary NVIDIA drivers to work in 12.04, 12.10 or 13.04. I've tried every method posted on these ...
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fglrx vs fglrx-updates and Ubuntu (Quantal) vs AMD's driver?
When trying to decide which proprietary driver I want, I was always a bit confused as to whether to choose fglrx or fglrx-updates. Both appear to contain the proprietary driver, but I don't know ...
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Proper install NVIDIA drivers
i have a problem and i want to get rid of it.
I have a EVGA 480 GTX graphic card and i can't install the proprietary drivers.
I tried lots of distro, its everytime the same problem : TTY console or ...
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NCAA March Madness Live doesn't work
NCAA March Madness Live is a Flash-based video player for the NCAA college basketball tournament that started today. In past years, it worked fine in Linux, but now I get an error that says "Technical ...
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Problem with hd video playback (AMD Radeon HD 6320)
I have Asus 1225b E-450 with AMD Radeon HD 6320 + Ubuntu 12.10. The problem consist in the video, it is so slow when playing 720p and 1080p. Proprietary drivers are installed. In what could be the ...
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Ubuntu with Kernel 3.0 and above is unstable with Nvidia GTX560Ti
Intel i7 Socket 1366
6 GB Tri-Channel RAM
GigaByte EX58-UD3R MB
nVidia GTX560Ti
Why can I not install any version of Ubuntu with kernel 3.0 and above with this video card?
11.04 and prior no ...
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AMD/ATi driver boots with no Unity/GUI display 12.10 [duplicate]
I've just installed Ubuntu 12.10 64" ready to play some steam games.
The install went fine I did all the updates etc, however I need to install the proprietary AMD drivers (ATi HD5750) for any decent ...
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Proprietary Drivers: Does Ubuntu know truly what my system has?
I was just wondering if Ubuntu actually knows the Proprietary drivers of my laptop. Using a DELL Inspiron 15r 6gb ram i5 intel core processor. If I pick the drivers that it recommends are they ...
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How to find out the name of the packages involved in the proprietary driver?
I have installed Ubuntu 10.04 on my HP Mini 110-3110BR for test purposes.
A notification about a proprietary driver popped up. It's for the Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN ...
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How can I fix an issue occurring while installing the latest AMD graphics driver?
I installed the xorg-edgers ppa (and since removed it) and am now hitting the following errors when I try to install the official amd drivers. Any help to fix this would be great:
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AMD proprietary drivers on ubuntu 12.10 only see desktop
Hi I've been stuck with this problem and I hope someone can help.
I've installed Ubuntu 12.10 64bit on my system.
Asus amd 6850
Intel celeron g530
8GB ram
Motherboard: GA-H61MA-D3V (rev. 2.0)
I ...
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Monitor out of Range 74.9kHz / 60Hz after installing ATI proprietary drivers
I tried fresh install 4 times on each Ubuntu 12.10 and Linux Mint 14 Cinnamon (both 64bits)
I tried several methods, through:
sudo apt-get install fglrx
Also
sudo apt-get install fglrx-updates
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I can't open jockey-gtk [closed]
Each time, I want to access the user interface for proprietary drivers, Ubuntu crashes (internal error) and report that the problem comes from jockey-gtk. So, I tried to run jockey-gtk from the ...
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Update manager updates the kernel mod but not the nvidia client, how to get them to match?
12.04 update on 2012-12-22 updated the kernel to 3.2.0-35-generic and attempted to update nvidia driver to nvidia-experimental-310 310.14-0ubuntu0.1 but did not.
Update on 2013-01-06 update manager ...
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Is there a repository (ppa) that collects closed-source, non-free software?
If I am not mistaken, programs like Spotify or Steam are not included in any of the Ubuntu repositories (main, restricted, ...). And I guess they will never be?
Correct me if I am wrong.
If I am ...
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Installing Ati Radeon Proprietary drivers 9.3 [closed]
ok. I'm sorry for all of the edits, but upon further research I have decided to completely overhaul how I am asking my question and what I am asking. Thank @StephenMyall for making me see some sense, ...
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How to deal with bugs in proprietary legacy driver?
I'm facing serious bugs in my proprietary AMD/ATI display drivers. Where do I report bugs regarding such drivers? Do proprietary drivers get modified by community to provide latest fixes at the ...
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What is the program “Additional Drivers” (jockey-gtk) talking me about?
The program says:
"No proprietary drivers are in use on this system"
But it doesn't say if it is talking about graphical drivers only or what.
Then, it lists two drivers:
NVIDIA accelerated ...
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Fuzzy static noise on screen
My Compaq 8710p laptop with a 256MB NVIDIA Quadro 320m was working fine. I switched to the proprietary driver and tried World of Warcraft under WINE until I got unbearable amounts of static. I ...
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ATI Proprietary Driver Over/Underscan setting ignored after reboot
I installed the proprietary driver (fglrx-updates) on Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit for my graphics card (ATI Radeon HD 7570). I am using two displays, one connected with DVI, one with HDMI. I set the desktop ...
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Installing the AMD Proprietary Drivers broke my 12.10 desktop [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Unity does not start after installing the fglrx drivers on 12.10
I decided to download and install the AMD Legacy Catalyst driver 12.6 from AMD's website. I ran the .run ...
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Unity Not loading after installing Nvidia proprietary drivers
I just got a new Nvidia GTX 650. The huge downside at this point is that whenever I use the open source driver, the computer is ridiculously slow. Whenever I use the proprietary drivers and restart, ...
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Problem with ATI graphics
I have a Radeon HD5850 graphic card and when trying to install the proprietary drivers I get Unity to start so I had to remove the fglrx driver and restore to the open driver.
I tried again today to ...
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Need to switch the proprietary wifi drivers to get the wifi working
when i restart my Dell inspiron 5010 it do not detects the wifi drivers and the hotkey for turning the wifi card on is not working either. I am using proprietary drivers "Broadcom 802.11 Linux STA ...
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Disable GPUScaling with Nividia binary driver 304
In former drivers there was an option in the nvidia-settings GUI for that.
I also tried it manually:
nvidia-settings --assign=GPUScaling=131074
Which gives me:
ERROR: The attribute 'GPUScaling' ...
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Is 12.10 in Sync with Nvidia packages in PPA X-Swat
I was checking https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/x-updates and noticed that there are no 12.10 packages. Apart from this I heard that 12.10 will be focusing more on up to date video ...
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NVIDIA Proprietary drivers not working in Ubuntu 12.10
I tried all proprietary drivers for my NVIDIA GTS450 graphics card, and after rebooting my PC, i get a very low resolution, and no desktop environment. I've tried the experimental 304 version and both ...
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How do I get drivers working for an Nvidia GT560i on 10.04?
My beloved and hard working 10.04 LTS x86_64 workstation can no long run in anything but command-line no, xorg won't run.
When my nvidia GT260 adapter failed, I replaced with a GT560i. The ...
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Why there are no proprietary drivers for Ubuntu 12.10 beta 2? [closed]
When I was using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS I could install the proprietary driver from the specific menu from the settings but since I've installed Ubuntu 12.10 Beta 2 it can't find any proprietary drivers. I ...
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Additional Drivers error installing in Ubuntu 12.04 (wireless internet and software modem)
I've already search for similar problems but they are so different from mine.
these are the drivers http://db.tt/qFZlD5JD
I'm having problem with this Additional Drivers once I click the Activate ...
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Open source vs Proprietary drivers for Video and Image Editing
Which drivers would be better to use if someone is using applications for Image and Video Editing (like GIMP, Inkscape, OpenShot, Cinelerra, PiTiVi, KdenLive, Avidemux, Kino, Lives and others) in ...
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I cannot install a proporietary fglrx driver
OK my install failed while installing the amd proprietary driver. I keep seeing references to a Nvidia driver, but I do not have or even want anything pertaining to Nvidia. Here are my latest ...
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NVIDIA proprietary driver logging me to console instead of GUI
Firstly i want to apologise for any mistakes, English is not my native language.
My problem is I can't get NVIDIA proprietary drivers to work. I tried to install it on Ubuntu 12.04.1 32 and 64 bits, ...
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How to publish free closed source application on Ubuntu Softvare Center [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to get my software into Ubuntu?
How can a free, proprietary application be submitted to the Software Center?
I want to publish application, I don't want to sell my ...
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Can I create a proprietary application using Qt?
I am using Qt4 to build an application and for some reason I want to keep it proprietary. Qt4 is released under LGPL, does that force me to release the code to my application. I ask this question ...
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Error while installing nVidia driver
I'm trying to install the latest (as of 27/09/2012) nVidia drivers for my GTX 660 through the Additional Drivers tab in System Settings. It ends up aborting, producing a log that says something about ...
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How can i forward video/audio through hdmi without proprietary drivers?
The Nvidia proprietary drivers are too buggy and slow for me. I didn't need them at all except for hdmi forwarding. I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 x64.
Could i forward video/audio through hdmi without ...
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How to setup dual-screen monitors in xorg.conf using Nvidia TwinView?
I have the following xorg.conf file, but TwinView is not working for me when using 2 monitors. Please help me get things sorted out.
# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by ...
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Dual monitor display 12.04?
I have 2 beautiful 27" ASUS monitors. I started trying out Ubuntu 12.04 and now only one works and thats VGA.
Any help here cause I'm stumped. I have a BFG Tech Nivida Geforce 8800 GT 512MB and I'm ...
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How to start making a non-free application?
I am wondering how is it possible somebody to make a non-free application under Ubuntu.
Being an open-source programmer, I've found that in order to make even the simplest program I use libraries ...
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How to package closed-source softwares
How to package close source application (proprietary). I know how to package open-source apps using dh_make and pbuilder but using this method others can see my source code. Is there any way for doing ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ati / amd driver not able to install
I'm a beginner who just set up a dual boot with Win7 home and
Ubuntu 12.04LTS. As seen in many tutorial videos and as Ubuntu suggested I tried to install the proprietary drivers.
my specs: dell ...
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Screen scrambles when logon screen shows [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Strange Glitched Screen on Startup
I run dual boot win7/Ubuntu 12.04 and my annoying problem is that every time the logon screen shows, my screen gets scrambled. This is ...
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Can I install the drivers offered by HP on my Laptop using Wine?
I am asking this question because the drivers provided on the HP website will cost me around 1.2 GB of bandwidth download.
Before downloading them I wanted to confirm if it's possible to install the ...
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How to review the current state of open source vs. closed source graphics drivers?
How to know whether it's worth it to replace open source drivers installed by default with proprietary ones. Are there any benchmarks? Major known issues summaries. I don't mean 'at the time of ...
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Error while trying to install ATI/AMD proprietary drivers (post-release update)
I tried to install the proprietary driver which is available for my graphics card. There are 2 available drivers;
"ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver (post-release updates)"
and
"ATI/AMD ...
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Which driver should I use with a 9600 GT Mobile?
I checked the Additional Drivers offered for my card and I saw four options:
NVIDIA accelerated graphics drivers (version 173)
NVIDIA accelerated graphics drivers (post-release updates) (version ...
