ubuntu

[numan43]

i bought a barebones system and installed ubuntu os, do i still need to install my motherboard drivers that came with the PC ?....sorry for the dopey question

[shbris]

probably not unless anything doesn't work ie. network etc.

[alsenior]

usually not. what barebones is it.

[CrazyMonkey]

i bought a barebones system and installed ubuntu os, do i still need to install my motherboard drivers that came with the PC ?....sorry for the dopey question

Chances are those drivers will be for a Windows OS. You may need to look for relevant graphics, sound and network drivers for your hardware. Although perhaps many of them were installed automatically.

[aidanjt]

i bought a barebones system and installed ubuntu os, do i still need to install my motherboard drivers that came with the PC ?....sorry for the dopey question

Nope, the system driver disc is 100% useless. Unless there's some system feature which isn't working, then you don't need to give it any further thought. So if you have a system with Intel integrated graphics, then 3D will likely work out of the box, if it's nVidia ION, then jockey will offer to install the nVidia proprietary drivers for you.

[numan43]

thanks guys

[numan43]

Description Intel Core Duo E6700
Cache 2MB
Clockspeed 3.20Ghz
Manufacturer Intel
No. of Cores 2

Memory
Speed 1333Mhz
Description 2 x 2GB DDR3 1333Mhz Memory

Case
Dimensions 402*180*410
Drive Bays 5 1/4" 4
Drive Bays 3 1/2" 2
Description ATX Tower Case With 400w PSU
Colour Black

Motherboard
Form Factor Micro ATX (9.6"x 7.7")
CPU Support Supports LGA 775 for Intel Core 2 Quad, Core 2 Duo, Pentium Dual-Core processors,Supports Intel 45nm multi-core CPU
Chipset Intel G41 & ICH7 Chipset Motherboard
Audio 5.1 channel by Realtek ALC662
IO 1 x PS/2 keyboard port
1 x PS/2 mouse port
1 x VGA port
1 x Audio jack supports 3 jacks
4 x USB 2.0 ports
1 x RJ45 LAN port
1 x Serial port
LAN Gigabit LAN by Realtek 8111DL
Socket Type 775
USB 4
SATA Ports 4
IDE Ports 1
PCI 2
PCI-EX 1* PCIe x16 slot
# 1* PCIe x1 slot
Memory Slots 2
Max Memory Capacity 8GB
Description Intel GMA 4500 Graphics

[peterb]

Ubuntu (and most of the modern distros) have pretty good hardware support straight off the install. And as others have said, the drivers supplied will be to get additional features out of the hardware.

The usual areas where you might need additional drivers are to get the best out of Nvidia or ATI graphics cards. I see you have an Intel graphics chip, which Ubuntu should support anyway, although you might want to do a Google search to see if there are any Intel drivers for Linux for it.

[Behemoth]

Anyone else notice whats wrong with this PC ? DDR3 on LGA 775 ? Surely this should be DDR2 unless some very late LGA 775 boards supported DDR3 ?

[watercooled]

Most new LGA 775 chipsets support DDR3, it's just optional to put the slots on the motherboard. My previous P35 motherboard had slots for both DDR2 and DDR3.

[aidanjt]

P/G4x was purely DDR3 IIRC.

[Behemoth]

Oh well I've just learnt something new today.

[numan43]

thank you all for the advice

[MSIC]

I've personally never seen a driver disc that came with anything other than MS Windows programs, drivers and "useful extras" (ie bloatware). I am only referring to the consumer products here, enterprise could well be different.
But i also concur, you're probably best off not amending anything much from the default install, at least until you become more familiar with using Ubuntu.
There is however one section, under 'Admin' i think IIRC, with an icon that looks like a PCB / graphics card, and is called Hardware (or something very similar).

Basically Ubuntu, being a Linux-based OS, is 'open source' as I'm sure you know, and that most of these OSes (to a greater or lesser degree) try to bundle non-proprietary drivers as standard. For graphics, this would typically mean not installing the AMD or Nvidia-made drivers, but open source ones that are usually created by the community. The proprietary drivers however (for graphics, chipsets, RAID cards, just about anything in principle) can often be better however, so as long as you dont object philosophically, then it is in this 'hardware' section above that you can easily install all extra relevant drivers.