[GRLUG] drivers

[Bob Kline]

Sure enough..

Thanks.

   -- Bob


On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Steve Romanow <slestak989 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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