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I have installed Ubuntu 11.10 on my laptop, but I did not get any drivers for Ubuntu 11.10 for that laptop.

When I had installed Windows 7, the performance was not optimal without the drivers.

What happens in Ubuntu 11.10 if I don't have the drivers?

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  • Ubuntu provides all drivers. Do you experience any problem?
    – slhck
    Commented Jun 6, 2012 at 16:28
  • yes,it is about battery notification, VGA is not detected, and screen brightness
    – TOFIK
    Commented Jun 6, 2012 at 16:32
  • Well you already asked about the battery thing. Please ask a concrete question about your problem, rather than some hypothetical thoughts!
    – slhck
    Commented Jun 6, 2012 at 16:49
  • i still don't have a solution about battery notification, it caused of driver or my hardware i am still confuse.
    – TOFIK
    Commented Jun 6, 2012 at 17:19
  • Your other question is very vague to begin with. You might just have to wait, sorry.
    – slhck
    Commented Jun 6, 2012 at 17:21

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There are only very few "drivers" not supported (or partially supported) by default: certain older wireless cards and AMD/Nvidia GPUs. If you plan on using 3d graphic then install the proprietary version of the driver from nvidia/AMD, and if your wifi doesn't work google it's model name for help. Other than these, there is no reason to worry about drivers in linux

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  • is there any differences of performance if AMD display driver installed or not ?
    – TOFIK
    Commented Jun 6, 2012 at 16:46
  • There is an open source driver, that is installed by default. The proprietary one is needed to use 3d graphics.
    – Bruno9779
    Commented Jun 6, 2012 at 16:58
  • The open-source driver should give you reasonable performance, except for heavy 3D graphics.
    – Renan
    Commented Jun 6, 2012 at 17:24
  • but I often found it hangs (all process stopped and i can't do nothing) on Ubuntu 11.10 when I run multiple processes
    – TOFIK
    Commented Jun 6, 2012 at 17:35
  • You need to tell up more about that. When you have those freezes, does Ctrl+Alt+F1 work? If it does, what is the output of the command top? What applications do you hae opened when the freeze happens?
    – Bruno9779
    Commented Jun 6, 2012 at 18:10

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