Re: Proprietary drivers

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On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 00:39:40 +0330, Ali Aminian said:

> I am wondering how should i install proprietary drivers on mainline
> kernel. I have NVIDIA Corporation G98M [GeForce 9300M GS] graphic
> chipset and Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 network adapter. in Broadcom
> case the driver source is available although the compilation process
> is not very clear to me but nvidia source code is not available and i
> don't know if there is a way to use drivers available in ubuntu's
> repository.

In general, proprietary drivers should come with installation instructions.
You get the NVidia driver from either NVidia, or Ubuntu, there should be
some documentation on how to get it installed.

> And also how can i find linux certified laptop. i mean a laptop  that
> has all its driver in linux source tree. i have seen ubuntu certified
> laptops that again use nvidia chipsets.

There's the open-source nouveau driver for nvidia.  Run that and install Mesa,
and you're pretty much all open.  Performance? Depends what you're doing.

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