Comment 3 for bug 403765

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Marcus Haslam (marcus-haslam) wrote : Re: [Bug 403765] Re: hardware drivers should pop-out on fresh install

I'm out of the office until 1st August.

On 12 Apr 2011, at 12:24, Ubuntu QA Website
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/403765
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> Title:
>  hardware drivers should pop-out on fresh install
>
> Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
>  Invalid
> Status in “jockey” package in Ubuntu:
>  New
>
> Bug description:
>  When a new user has finished his Ubuntu setup and boots for the first
>  time, the "Hardware drivers" should pop-out by itself (or a little
>  reminder, among the lines of "You can use
>  system>Administration>Hardware Drivers to install closed-source
>  drivers for your hardware").
>
>  It can be annoying for the new user to find out that his expensive
>  video card is not working properly, or maybe the wireless isn't
>  working, so he should be shown where to search for those drivers in
>  the first place.