For a given device, sometimes one linux distro perfectly supports a hardware component. Then if I switch distros, the same component no longer functions at all, or is very buggy.

How do I find out what the difference is?

  • linuxPIPEpowerOP
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    2 months ago

    That’s what I’m thinking!

    I am asking a really basic question here. How do I find out about the drivers in the distro?

    • Katlah@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      I mean it depends on the hardware. (if we knew what hardware youre talking about it would make this much easier)

    • PaX [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      2 months ago

      You can check to see what drivers were compiled as modules or into your kernel by reading the kernel configuration at /proc/config.gz or /boot/*config*

      There might also be out-of-tree (not included with the kernel) drivers installed as packages on your system but this is very rare outside of like… having an NVIDIA card and running the closed-source vendor driver