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Install video drivers
If required/desired, install hardware specific video drivers (nVidia or ATI). Go to System→Administration→Hardware Drivers and enable the drivers for your video card. You will need to reboot to make this take affect. Read more
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Install Multimedia Codecs in Ubuntu 8.04
Web designers in the multimedia business have been slow to embrace open standards. Most websites feature content in the proprietary mp3, wmv, or Adobe Flash formats. In order to get many multimedia files to work with Ubuntu you need to enable the Medibuntu repositories. So fire up your handy, dandy terminal and enter the following to add Medibuntu to your sources list. Read more
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