Is installing drivers necessary?

[Florian Diesch]

"Roy M." <setesting001 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am a newbie to ubuntu and just tried installing latest 9.04.
>
> Every work fine, good!
>
> But do I need to install custom drivers for performance?
>
> E.g. display card, sound card, network card etc.?

For some hardware there are additional non-free drivers available that
are not installed by default (e.g. Nvidia and AMD graphic cards)


> Especially for the display card, I am using Intel integrated one, but
> I have enabled full desktop effect.

Intel drivers ate usually free and installed by default. 9.04 has some
problems with Intel graphics cards but if it works for you that's
fine.

<http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1130582> and
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/IntelPerformance> may be interesting.



   Florian
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