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determining why/how hardware is supported in one distro but not another? (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 7 months ago by linuxPIPEpower@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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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?

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[–] thequantumcog@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Could be varoius reasons. Some common ones:

  • distros can have different kernel parameters
  • unloaded kernel modules
  • different kernel parameters
  • older kernel/packages
  • missing packages

You can narrow down which distros work and which hardware support is missing. Also look at archwiki for that specific piece of hardware. You can find a lot of useful information even if you don't use Arch.

[–] linuxPIPEpower@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

  • distros can have different kernel parameters

  • unloaded kernel modules

  • different kernel parameters

  • older kernel/packages

  • missing packages

how do I find out about these?

Are they specific to my system? Some kind of decision the installer makes? So I would investigate locally on the device?

Or will it be a general distro thing? Am I looking on their website to find out?

[–] thequantumcog@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

No, look up what drivers/modules/packages your hardware need and load them/upgrade/install on the buggy distro