[GRLUG] drivers

[Bob Kline]

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I installed a copy of Linux Mint on an
> > Acer Laptop last night, hoping it would
> > solve some display issues.  The hardware
> > on the Acer 5000 does not seem to be
> > particularly well supported.
> > Anyway, at one point during the installation
> > it said something like "new drivers available
> > to support your hardware."  I did not have
> > the network cable plugged in, and the
> > message went away.
>
> It probably noticed your GPU or wifi chipset brand, and was going to
> suggest the proprietary drivers.
>
> > Now,  any suggestions about how I can go
> > about getting those updates post installation?
> > i.e., is there a standard way of updating drivers
> > for a machine?  Is that just part of something
> > like Synaptic, or is there another, more direct
> > procedure?
>
> It'll be distro-specific. I'm not particularly familiar with Mint, so
> I couldn't tell you.
>

How is it done in some other distro's?
i.e., if support is not there already, how
does one go about it?  I've never encountered
this before - things either just worked, or just
didn't work, but I don't remember seeing the
OS make a suggestion during installation.

The problem here is the display, naturally.
I compared the settings with those of Puppy,
which works just fine, and they are nominally
the same.  Something's missing.

     -- Bob


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