<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Michael Mol <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Bob Kline <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I installed a copy of Linux Mint on an<br>
> Acer Laptop last night, hoping it would<br>
> solve some display issues. The hardware<br>
> on the Acer 5000 does not seem to be<br>
> particularly well supported.<br>
> Anyway, at one point during the installation<br>
> it said something like "new drivers available<br>
> to support your hardware." I did not have<br>
> the network cable plugged in, and the<br>
> message went away.<br>
<br>
</div>It probably noticed your GPU or wifi chipset brand, and was going to<br>
suggest the proprietary drivers.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Now, any suggestions about how I can go<br>
> about getting those updates post installation?<br>
> i.e., is there a standard way of updating drivers<br>
> for a machine? Is that just part of something<br>
> like Synaptic, or is there another, more direct<br>
> procedure?<br>
<br>
</div>It'll be distro-specific. I'm not particularly familiar with Mint, so<br>
I couldn't tell you.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>How is it done in some other distro's? </div><div>i.e., if support is not there already, how</div><div>does one go about it? I've never encountered</div>
<div>this before - things either just worked, or just</div><div>didn't work, but I don't remember seeing the</div><div>OS make a suggestion during installation.</div><div><br></div><div>The problem here is the display, naturally.</div>
<div>I compared the settings with those of Puppy,</div><div>which works just fine, and they are nominally</div><div>the same. Something's missing.</div><div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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