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Problem with installing my drivers

Asked by woods

I have Unbunntu installed and I am ready to install the drivers for my video card, motherboard, wireless network card, keyboard, and mouse. But it wont let me do that. I keep getting an error, my friend says its because they are executable files and only windows can run those. I'm not really sure what the problem is but i would really like some help from someone more experience with this os. Anyone that can help me get my drivers installed please let me know what to do.

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woods (skatermike34) said : 		#1

here are the parts i used:
Motherboard: ASUS A8N32 - SLI Deluxe
CPU: AMD Athalon 64x2
Video card: GeForce 7900 GS
HDD: Seagate Ultra ATA/100 250GB

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Jim Hutchinson (jphutch) said : 		#2

Ah, I see you did post this as a new question. Just found it. Here is what I mentioned in the other thread just to keep things straight...

"Are you sure you need to install drivers? Linux by default has built in driver support for a lot of hardware. Based on your hardware spces, I would think that the only thing you need to do is install the nvidia driver(for linux) if you want to do anything 3D. It should do regular video without anything special. What are seeing that would suggest you need drivers? If your mouse, keyboard, network and such are working then you are good to go. You might need to do something with wireless depending on the hardware and video as I mentioned.

If you do need to install drivers the windows ones won't work. They are designed for windows. You will need linux specific drivers."

First, lets start with what works and what doesn't.

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