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Thread: Installing Drivers

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    Installing Drivers

    I'm trying to get some games work, so I booted up Envy to see my drivers.

    It says none of my drivers are supported nor installed. I have ATI and NVIDIA cards.

    How can I install them?

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    Re: Installing Drivers

    Anything?

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    Re: Installing Drivers

    Standard rule of thumb in this forum is to bump no more often that once every 24 hours, so first off, quit bumping.

    Second, need to know which specific model ATI and Nvidia cards you're planning on using because the drivers, especially for ATI, depend critically on the model of the card. There is no single generic answer.

    Finally, open source drivers are installed automatically; restricted drivers depend on the card models and the version of Ubuntu you're running.
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    Re: Installing Drivers

    I'm totally new to Ubuntu and don't know where to view my drivers. I looked in system>administration>hardware drivers but it didn't show anything.

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    Re: Installing Drivers

    if everything works fine... why bother?
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    Re: Installing Drivers

    I was trying to get Team Fortress 2 to work, but I would get a black screen after the valve splash.

    So I assumed it was my drivers, I downloaded EnvyNg and it said that my drivers werent supported by Ubuntu. Nor could I see my drivers in the "Hardware Drivers" panel.

    So here I am.

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    Re: Installing Drivers

    I guess I have a driver problem too. A few days ago I reinstalled a computer with Ubuntu 8.10. It seems to work fine, but the computer is freezing every half hour or three quarters of an hour.
    Could this be a driver problem? and how do I fix it?
    The machine does not turn off or go to sleep or anything in that direction. It just stops reacting.

    Thanks for your help
    Suingi

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    Re: Installing Drivers

    Quote Originally Posted by prions View Post
    I'm totally new to Ubuntu and don't know where to view my drivers. I looked in system>administration>hardware drivers but it didn't show anything.
    We're not mind readers, here. Can't help you with specifics without first knowing what model video card/chip you're using.

    If you're running an ATI card/chip, entering "fglrxinfo" in a terminal will indicate whether or not you're running the ATI restricted drivers.
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    Re: Installing Drivers

    Code:
    buntu@ubuntu:~$ fglrxinfo
    display: :0.0  screen: 0
    OpenGL vendor string: DRI R300 Project
    OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R300 20060815 x86/MMX+/3DNow!+/SSE2 NO-TCL
    OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 7.4

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    Re: Installing Drivers

    OK, so you're not running the restricted ATI drivers. Do an "lspci" in a terminal and look for information that will tell you which video chipset you're using.
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