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no proprietary drivers are in use on this system!

Asked by lonniemac

Hi guys,

I have removed the Window vista and installed the ubuntu 10.04. I reinstall it again because of some problem. but now in "System-administration-Hardware driver " its message came "no proprietary drivers are in use on this system".

What shall I do please.

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Best Andrea Corbellini (andrea.corbellini) said : 		#1

Sorry, I can't understand your problem. You should be happy if you don't need restricted software! :)

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lonniemac (madden06champ) said : 		#2

Thanks Andrea Corbellini, that solved my question.

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lonniemac (madden06champ) said : 		#3

i dont understand you

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Fred (eldmannen+launchpad) said : 		#4

Some hardware devices (such as some brands/models of wireless network cards) require a proprietary device driver.
This is because the hardware vendor/manufacturer have not released the specifications/documentations required in order to develop a open source device driver.

Proprietary device drivers should avoid, they are bad because they are proprietary software, they're without source code, and the user cant modify them.

Sometimes proprietary device drivers are needed though, else the hardware device does not work, if there is no open source device driver available.

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Simon Bazley (sibaz) said : 		#5

That's not helpful.

The nouveau drivers provide a subset of the features that I expect from my Nvidia graphics card. I don't like that nvidia don't release the code to their drivers, but it's the way it is, and the Ubuntu forums (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia) direct me to use the 'Hardware Drivers' app to install these. Whereas the Manual instructions (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NvidiaManual) direct me not to install the drivers manually.

Hence it's a reasonable question how to make ubuntu work, as instructed, and this isn't 'solved'.

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Simon Bazley (sibaz) said : 		#6

It may help others that come across this message to know that the exe behind 'Hardware Drivers' on my machine is jockey-kde. running jockey-kde --help from the command line gives some interesting options, including jockey-kde -u and jockey-kde -c which respectively query the database for new or updated drivers and check if your machine has any hardware that might benefit.

running both of those a few times from the command line, seems to have kicked the app into life, and now it attempts to update the drivers list whenever I open the app. Not sure why it didn't work first time, I guess that's a bug in there somewhere.

Unfortunately in my case, I'm looking for drivers to get my nvidia GeForce GT 440 working. It seems the latest lucid drivers are still behind the ones I need to support the nVidia features on my card, so I'll need to do a manual install anyway :-(