A device driver or software driver is a computer program allowing higher-level computer programs to interact with a hardware device.
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linux mint cinnamon - AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter keeps disconnecting
Lately I got a DELL inspiron 15-3521, I installed the latest Linux mint cinnamon. I have been having some problems with my Ethernet card, when i start my pc everything works perfectly for about 10 to ...
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Problem compiling a driver : “No rule to make target”
First of all I am running a CentOS 6.4 installation.
My computer is a laptop and I am trying to install the drivers for my ethernet card, because this week end I lost my ability to connect to the ...
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Virtual mouse driver, possible X11 problems
I created virtual mouse driver according to Essential Linux Device Drivers book. After I wrote coordinates echo x y > /sys/ ... /coordinates into sysfs node, my program generates event packets ...
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How to use better driver (nouveau) instead of generic VESA with NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M?
I've got laptop with NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M and have no Gnome-shell which I like very well.
I use:
Debian GNU/Linux jessie /sid \n \l
When I run Debian as live USB everything works fine.
How to ...
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Which is has higher performance? Nvidia proprietary or Nouveau open source?
System: Manjaro 0.8.5.2 x64
Core 2 Duo P8700 @ 2.53Ghz
Nvidia GT 240M
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Missing “version.h” when installing fglrx
I have downloaded the fglrx driver installer from the ATI drivers page.
when I start the installation, everything goes smoothly until I hit an error message, telling me to check ...
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Should I restart after a pacman upgrade?
after running
sudo pacman -Syyu
or
sudo pacman -S [something to install]
should I restart just to be safe?
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Running Ubuntu of a USB stick. Can't install wireless driver
I've installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my 8 gb USB stick, and got it running. It seems like I don't have the full Ubuntu OS on the stick though, and that was my intention. Anyway, I can run a "demo" version ...
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What considerations need to be made when choosing the version of kernel for an embedded device?
I have used buildroot to successfully create a kernel, root file system and cross-compilers to enable me to write application code to run on an embedded device. Currently I have no need to write ...
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What is the relation between the Linux device drivers “domains”?
As I'm reading about the Linux device drivers and power management API I keep encountering terms like "system level", "subsystem", "platform", "class", and so on.
What is the relation between them? ...
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Nouveau drivers 'init failed'
I am receiving errors from the nouveau drivers on boot. I receive the errors
twice: once about 8 seconds after the kernel starts and once again about 19
seconds after the kernel starts.
[ ...
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Data transfer between ATmega16 microcontroller and Linux?
Can any one tell me how can I know status of any pin of an ATmega16 microcontroller using Ubuntu?
When I connect ATmega16 to my system a file in /dev/ is created by name ttyUSB0. I am using an ...
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Fedora won't boot after installing Nvidia drivers
I followed this tutorial about Nvidia drivers installation and I accidentally forget to do 5th point (disabling nouveau drivers), so now I can't boot my system. I know I am idiot but is there anything ...
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Determine whether kernel built-in driver supports a device
I'm trying to find a way to accurately determine whether all the hardware on some system has a valid driver installed either via a kernel module or built-in to the kernel.
I'm working with RHEL 5.5 ...
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Is there a list of NICs that work with linux?
I built a new computer and want to install Linux on it. I loaded a couple different flavors and they detect there is a NIC but it won't connect to the network. It looks like it tries and tries but ...
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An easier way to print from a live CD than Puppy?
After several failed attempts to burn an Ubuntu CD to live boot from (they wouldn't boot, maybe because my CD burning software wouldn't burn slower than 4X speed?), I've managed to get a boot disc ...
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What distro has excellent AMD PowerXpress support?
I have a laptop with an AMD 6630M/Sandy Bridge hybrid GPU. I've struggled in Ubuntu to get fglrx installed. It would run on the discrete card in 12.10, and wouldn't work at all in 13.04.
I'm ...
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How to install precompiled ath9k driver?
I have a Ubuntu and I have cross compiled an ath9k driver for an ARM architecture. The problem is a can't make the install work as I want to work.
README says the following:
Building for external ...
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Ricoh Aficio SP C240DN driver
I have seen the driver here, but that is a black/white laser printer.
So the question here is: does it support color?
I'm getting the same printer, and hope, that I can find a solution to this. ...
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grub2 ubuntu 12.04.2 flashing screen
Okay, so I've been searching a bit and either by my lack of understanding (I know just enough to be about as dangerous as a fluffy kitten) or because I am just not searching for the right stuff (maybe ...
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Mint update with NVIDIA breaks Cinnamon
I have Linux Mint 14 64-bit Cinnamon on a desktop with an NVidia GTX 680 graphics card. I downloaded and installed the drivers from the NVIDIA website (installed on TTY1 with sudo service mdm stop). ...
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programming an Atmel Board with a USB to Serial converter, in Eclipse
I am actually trying to program an Atmel Evk1100 board directly from Mac OSX.
My MCU is UC3A0512
I used to use Atmel32 Studio on Windows, but It looks like there no Mac Version.
So, from what I've ...
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USB-Serial Driver(Exar Xr21v1414) Run Error
I'm currently trying to run the bellow driver in linux-3.8.3 on Exar xr21v1414
http://www.exar.com/connectivity/uart-and-bridging-solutions/usb-uarts/xr21v1410,
but when i install the driver ...
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ihome fastrack 6000 linux driver
How would I go about using this mouse in linux? ihome fast track 6000. I like using this mouse, but I can't find a linux driver for it. I have a windows driver that controls the programmable buttons ...
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brcmsmac does not work
I am attempting to enable my wireless interface in Slax Linux, so far, I know the driver I need is brcmsmac, since I have a broadcom card; and this work in Slackware.
The driver is available and does ...
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Would someone please explain lspci -vv output?
I have the following output from running lspci -vv -s 00:00 on my single board computer running linux.
07:05.0 RAID bus controller: Adaptec AAC-RAID (Rocket) (rev 03)
Subsystem: Adaptec ASR-2230S + ...
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Unable to install LAN driver in RedHat (*** /lib/modules/2.6.32-358.el6.i686/build: No such file or directory)?
I tried to install the Realtek LAN driver on my RHEL Server (running version 6.4).
In the folder extracted: autorun.sh log.txt Makefile README src
\>type command: ./autorun.sh
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RT3290 Wireless still not working
I've been trying to get my wireless working for two weeks now. I have 1814:3290 wireless card. I am on Linux Mint 14 64-bit. I have tried all the suggestion on here:
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Fix keyboard chattering/bouncing on the software side
I have a mechanical keyboard (Noppoo Choc Mini with Cherry MX Blue switches) and after a few weeks, some key presses are getting sent two times even though I press a single time. I found out that this ...
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Cups configuration does not consider my new PPD driver (Debian Wheezy)
My Brother HL-4040CN is very impredictible when trying to print images or PDFs. Searching around, I found an accurate driver description file at openprinting.org: ...
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Unable to install Atheros AR8161 Ethernet controller driver for centOS 6
I've installed CentOS 6.3. However, eth0 does not show up on ifconfig.
So I figured out that I need to install alx Ethernet driver from here.
Since my internet is not working, as ethernet drivers are ...
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Drivers for GMA 4500MHD
~$ lsmod | grep ^i915
i915 296139 3
2:2.15.0~maverick~ppa1 (xserver-xorg-video-intel)
from https://launchpad.net/~glasen/+archive/intel-driver?field.series_filter=maverick
~$ ...
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Screen not refreshing properly after installing Fglrx drivers
Im having some trouble with my brand new Fedora 18.
I have a laptop with a radeon 7500m in it, and I recently installed the fglrx drivers, following some tutorial I found.
Im running LXDE, and ...
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Attaching USB-Serial device with custom PID to ttyUSB0 on embedded
I'm attempting to get an FTDI USB-Serial device with a custom PID to automatically (or even manually) attach to ttyUSB%n, without much success. The device's normal VID/PID is 0403/6001. When ...
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Webcam Device Driver to support H.264
I have a Creative Live Cam Connect HD (id: 041e:4093) and this webcam has an on-board H.264 encoder. Unfortunately v4l2 only inputs the feed as MJPG.
$ v4l2-ctl --list-formats
ioctl: VIDIOC_ENUM_FMT
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Where do the device option values beginning with “Monitor-xyz” come from in xorg.conf?
Trying to install prop drivers for my Radeon HD6850 card on crunchbang (debian-based linux).
Followed these instructions for install from repo and used aticonfig instead of amdconfig to create an ...
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Turn off TCP checksum offload [closed]
I am programming a linux networking driver. It is almost done. When I ping between 2 PCs, everything is perfect. And then I try to use some TCP/UDP protocols, and the receiver never reply. I used ...
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How to create a driver for Linux from within Windows?
I found a wonderful tutorial on how to install my driver here but I quickly ran into a problem. Let me explain the problem i am facing. I want to install a Linux distro (still looking into different ...
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Loading extention GLX : screen freezes
I installed Ubuntu Server edition 12.10 on a server (with 16 GB RAM and 500GB hard disk).
The installation was successful, after which I tried installing GUI using the below command
sudo apt-get ...
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How to configure buildroot to add a sound device?
I've used a given board configuration to reconfigure it for my individual board. My board has a CS4270 sound device of Cirrus Logic. My uImage is booting successfully on my target hardware, but an ...
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Installing AMD GPU drivers on Fedora 18
How can I install the AMD graphics drivers on Fedora 18? I downloaded the driver from the amd website. I unpacked the driver and ran the "amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13.1-linux-x86.x86_64.run" ...
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Light linux for disk operations
I have old computer with Windows XP system and it started crashing randomly. I need light OS, which can be booted as Live CD/DVD in which I could copy all data from hdd to external hdd.
I have tried ...
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Help compiling a Linux driver for a TV card stack
I've been trying to get my Raspberry Pi to work with one of two TV Cards that I have available on me. Unfortunately I live in Hong Kong where due to the digital broadcast standard, leaves me with few ...
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How to disable Nouveau on Fedora 18?
I want to install the proprietary Nvidia driver. Downloaded it from here. I have the 64-bit one.
However, when I try to install it, I can't because the Nouveau driver is already there. I have spend ...
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How to list all present optical drivers?
How can I list all the installed optical drivers with udev or any other core-based tool (perl is also very good) ?
P.S.: I know about the wodim --devices command, but it's an undesirable ...
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RAID Drivers and Support for an AMD SB950 Chip?
I have an Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2 motherboard which uses the AMD SB950 chipset to create a fakeRAID array (setup for RAID 5 in my case). It is recognized as a RAID array in Windows after install of ...
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How to setup GParted video mode in Oracle Virtualbox?
I'm trying to boot GParted live 0.14.1-6 within Oracle Virtualbox 4.2.6 r82870 (Extension Pack installed).
The host OS is Windows 7, the physical graphic card is an AMD Radeon HD 6900.
The physical ...
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how to install elo touchscreen driver
i need to install elo touchscreen driver on an intel series panel pc. i do not have any idea whether to install the driver from elo download link as it only supports kernels 2.4 and 2.6! it is better ...
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ATI/AMD driver problem: Screens turn black/random colors random times
We've recently installed Linux Mint 13 64bit Mate on a Dell Studio 1558. We have since had issues with getting the drivers for the graphics card (ATI Radeon HD 5400) to work. Installing the Linux Mint ...
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Video Gibberish (once every week or two)
Trying to track down an odd video problem. I was running Ubuntu (Precise Penguin) before and running Lucid before that. In both cases the video was running fine (over the last two years).
However ...
