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1. INSTALL PROPRIETARY DRIVERS UBUNTU COMMAND LINE INSTALL
2. INSTALL PROPRIETARY DRIVERS UBUNTU COMMAND LINE FULL

INSTALL PROPRIETARY DRIVERS UBUNTU COMMAND LINE FULL

Now, you should be able to take full advantage of your hardware, including fancy desktop effects with hardware acceleration. After installation you may be prompted to reboot your system.

INSTALL PROPRIETARY DRIVERS UBUNTU COMMAND LINE INSTALL

Select the driver you wish to install, and click Activate.Įnter your password, and then Ubuntu will download and install the driver without any more input. This will open a dialog showing all the proprietary drivers available for your system, which may include drivers for your video card and other hardware depending on your computer. Or, you can select the tray icon from the first popup, and click Install drivers.Īlternately, if the tray icon has disappeared, click System, then Administration, and select Hardware Drivers. Click Enable to directly install the drivers right there. You may see a notification asking you if you’d like to install optional drivers from your graphics card manufacturer when you try to enable advanced desktop effects. When you first install and boot into Ubuntu, you may see a popup informing you that “restricted” drivers are available. However, most video cards still need proprietary drivers from their manufacturer to get full hardware video acceleration.Įven though Ubuntu doesn’t include any non-open source components, it still makes it easy to install proprietary drivers if you wish.

This is in contrast to the past, when it was often difficult to get hardware to work in Linux. Ubuntu 10.04 finally automatically recognizes and installs drivers for most hardware today, it even recognized and configured Wi-Fi drivers correctly every time in our tests. Does the hardware on your Ubuntu system need proprietary drivers work at peak performance? Today we take a look how easy version 10.04 makes it to install them.