[GRLUG] drivers

[Michael Mol]

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.

Well, on Ubuntu, you'd find it System->Administration->Hardware Drivers.

Any other distro, and I'd run lspci and google around for whatever
device I hadn't gotten working yet. Typically, that'd be some
bleeding-edge component like a wifi driver.

>      -- Bob
>
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