When it comes to improving hardware support for Linux, there are two traditional strategies: The Do-It-Yourself method, by which geeks write their own device drivers, and the Beg-And-Plead approach, or asking OEMs for open-source drivers and hoping they comply.
So heres the problem:
Hi.
I've seen this problem, or similar, been posted on the forum earlier. I also know that is not a good line to start a new thread with.
Laptop: HP Pavillion tx1020, broadcom 4312, nVidia gf go 6150 graphics.
OS: Clean installed Ubuntu 9.10, downloaded yesterday.
Sorry, I know there are dozens of threads titled "no proprietary drivers are in use on this system," but none of them answered my question. Most of them centered around nVidia drivers.
I just installed Ubuntu 10.04 on an Acer Aspire AM3970. I can't for the life of me get the wireless to work.
Linus Torvalds has released Linux 3.3, which should ultimately remove some of the problems that occasionally caused system interruptions when writing to slow storage devices. Dozens of new and revised drivers improve the kernel's hardware support so there is progress in the open source drivers for AMD, Intel and NVIDIA graphics.
Hello there, i am trying to get more into Linux by trying distributions which are a bit of a challenge for the normal end-user such as Slackware, Debian and Gentoo but i am having a lot of trouble due to hardware support.
I was wondering are there any good specialised hardware support websites for certain distros?
I find for example Ubuntu is very good with hardware support, all i had to do was
Just installed ubuntu on my old acer aspire 5515 laptop for testdriving my first shackel free OS.
sofar so good....looks promising, but running really reaally sluggish compared to windows, its a fresh install and assuming i need drivers.
I go to system settings>hardware>addition driver.....
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I had 9.04 on my HP Pavilion DV6570, everything worked fine until I decided to install 9.10. I installed a fresh setup and now I can't use my broadcom wireless, when I go to Hardware drivers to enable proprietary drivers there is nothing to activate, no wireless driver, no graphic driver!
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