[GRLUG] drivers

[Steve Romanow]

Bob,

Go to System--Administration-- Hardware Drivers

HTH,
Steve

(Sorry for the top post, stoopid blackberry.)

On 2/8/10, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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