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?
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?
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?
I mean it depends on the hardware. (if we knew what hardware youre talking about it would make this much easier)
You can check to see what drivers were compiled as modules or into your kernel by reading the kernel configuration at
/proc/config.gzor/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