Questions tagged [drivers]
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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Ethernet controller is sometimes not listed in lspci
I am using a CPU Board PCE-3029G2-00A1E from Advantech and I am facing an issue. Sometimes (not always) one of my ethernet controller is not detected by the system (not listed by lspci command). This ...
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Laptop keyboard and touchpad not working
My friend just installed Debian on his laptop, a Lenovo Ideapad Slim 3 14. He has Linux version 6.1.0-12-amd64.
However, his integrated touchpad and keyboard don’t work. The issue happens on both ...
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Tool for monitoring kernel driver messages? What are the options?
I'm working on a kernel-level device driver that sends requests to an underlying piece of hardware. Those requests have a fixed length and a given layout (including multiple fields with encoded values,...
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How to install printer drivers on Arch Linux when there is no official Arch package provided?
I am trying to print to Epson WorkForce WF-2650 All-In-One Inkjet PRinter from my Arch Linux desktop. Both the desktop and the printer are in network range 192.168.0.1/24.
Initialize Printer Service
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Does getting WiFi working on Debian 12 really require an internet connection on the device in question?
When booting a fresh install of Debian 12 Bookworm I'm met with a message saying I need to go to https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download the correct firmware ...
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Wifi driver not ready
I am facing issues with Realtek Wi-Fi card (8852be) when dual-booting Kali Linux alongside Windows on your HP Pavilion 14 ec1000x laptop wifi automatically gets disabled or not able to connect so give ...
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Possible to revert Linux Mint back to using previous drivers?
I was asked by Linux Mint whether to update a driver for my GPU yesterday, an NVidia driver, and I clicked OK. However, it is almost certainly responsible for ruining the wired connectivity on my ...
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Nvidia driver install on Ubuntu 22.04.3 TLS
I tried to install Nvidia driver on my Asus laptop GU603H powered by rtx 3060 max-q mobile graphic card. I couldn't update my driver via GUI so I tried to tty1 using following steps:
1- purging all ...
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Wi-fi adapter not recognized on Kali Linux
I bought a wireless adapter Realtek 8812BU Wireless. It came with a small CD for the driver but since I don't have a CD-ROM I looked for the driver on the Internet.
After a few searches, I managed to ...
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Linux Mint 21 - Broadcom 43142 - wifi stopped working
I'm using Mint 21 on an HP 17-y002na laptop. It's been connected via ethernet cable for much of the time since I updated to 21, but has had wifi capability at times. Last week I noticed that the ...
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What is wrong with the recognition of this HID device?
I have a Panasonic CF-31RECAXDR Toughbook with 6.3.0-kali1-amd64.
(https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=2c021f93de)
Kali does not recognize the HID device Fujitsu Component Limited USB Touch Panel, no ...
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How do I write a kernel driver for a custom partition table format?
I have a number of hard disks that use a proprietary partitioning system. The disks don't contain partition tables themselves, but each have a known number of partitions at fixed positions with fixed ...
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GPL/CCO: Fedora 38 driver module build takes hours instead of minutes
FYI: The driver's Linux specific content if GPL. Everything else is CC0.
I made a virgin installation of Fedora 38. To verify that all was setup suitably, I went on to build one of my drivers. The ...
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Removing old kernels seemingly removed graphics driver, is it safe to reboot?
Removing old kernels seemingly removed graphics driver, is it safe to reboot?
While doing a routine sudo apt upgrade, I received a No space left on device error. It turned out that kernels kept ...
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Realtek 8822CE Wireless LAN 802.11ac PCI-E NIC drivers for fedora 38
my Internet connection is not working well, where can I download the driver for my Wi-Fi adapter Realtek 8822CE Wireless LAN 802.11ac PCI-E NIC?
My laptop Huawei D14 nbl-waq9r
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CP210x driver on debian?
I'm trying to get the Columbus P-7 Pro unit working on a Debian 11 VM, the readme notes are the following
Build instructions for Ubuntu:
make # (your cp210x driver)
cp cp210x.ko to /lib/modules//...
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Moving hard disk from one laptop to the other: how to update OS drivers?
I have moved a hard disk containing openSUSE Leap 15.5 from one laptop to the other. The two laptops are from two different manufacturers.
The OS runs fine on the new laptop. But there are some ...
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What is brcmfmac exactly showing me during the core check?
I've been playing with tweaking the nvram text file for my wireless card (BCM43602 on a macbook pro).
I've found a couple wireless nvram programming references on which certain parameters (for example ...
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nouveau error message appears on boot after upgrading nvidia driver manually
My Linux PC has a Nvidia GPU. I used to manage the graphics driver by the nvidia-driver package. However the stock is a bit behind so I decided to install the latest one myself from Nvidia.
I made the ...
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LAN drivers causing Layer 4 corruption
I'm relatively sure that my drivers are causing some level 4 packet corruption on my system. I'd like to know how to solve this..
Diagnostics:
any form of git clone on large repos will invariably ...
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Reading from socketCAN inside a driver
I am attempting to read a socketCAN device inside a driver.
I am setting up an skb and passing that along with pertinent information to the can_rx_register call to register a callback named sc_rcv.
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apt wants to remove essential packages after manual update of nvidia driver (Debian 11)
I needed the latest version of my nvidia driver to use OBS, so I decided to replace mine which was the official package. I downloaded the .run file from NVIDIA website and installed it, after removing ...
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My PC crashes because of nouveau drivers
Have problem with my nouveau driver I use i3 if it matters I had a nvdia 340 driver before.
This is the journalctl command log
nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for nouveau/nv84_xuc00f failed ...
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Fail to install nvidia-driver-525 nvidia-dkms-525
I have a NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX(ubuntu20.04), I want to install the nvidia-driver.BUT,It shows ERRORS every time when i try. I use "sudo apt install nvidia-driver-525 nvidia-dkms-525". How ...
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Debian missing firmware that should be present
I am currently switching from Windows to Linux on all of my Systems and now there is only my Laptop left. It is a Acer Nitro 5 AN517-52-514, on which I am trying to install Debian 12.0.
The problem: ...
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Fingerprint doesn't work in linux (Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS)
I am trying to enable fingerprint, but when I run sudo fprintd-enroll it shows this Impossible to enroll: GDBus.Error:net.reactivated.Fprint.Error.NoSuchDevice: No devices available.
can anyone help ...
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Webcam keeps on disconnecting and reconnecting
I am on Debian unstable with swaywm. I could also reproduce the same issue on i3.
On running sudo dmesg after launching cheese, I get this.
After the initial run, cheese straightaway goes into a dark ...
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MacBook Pro's wifi doesn't work on a fresh Pop!_OS install
I have a MacBook Pro 16, and decided to install Pop!_OS on it.
My system info is:
OS: Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS x86_64
Host: MacBookPro16,2 1.0
Kernel: 6.2.6-76060206-generic
My Network controller is a ...
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how to remove a blacklisted module linux mint
I recently updated my nvidia drivere through update manager and when I did that all my monitors went blank, I waited about 20 minutes and they stayed blank so i restarted and now I get the error: &...
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kernel BUG at drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c:154 (after minor Mint upgrade)
After an effortless and straightforward upgrade of my Linux Mint Cinnamon to version 21.2, I got a malfunctioning Nvidia driver again, it booted alright. It showed my desktop, but I could not launch ...
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Lenovo V15 g4 AMN mouse and keyboard is not working under linux
I have a Lenovo V15 g4 AMN with AMD Ryzen 5 7520U
Tried to install multiple distros (Fedora, Ubuntu), but internal touchpad and keyboard are not working.
Usb mouse and keyboard work perfectly, also ...
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When should I create a device driver?
I am working with an embedded system which has lots of code written by people, usually with more expertise than me.
Part of the embedded system kernel has a custom device driver based in I2C and V4L, ...
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A process using CUDA gets stuck, then all others get stuck as well - what do I do?
I’m writing some program using CUDA CUDA 12.1, running on a Linux system (Devuan Daedalus, kernel version 6.1.27).
For some reason (which may be a bug of mine, although I kind of doubt it) - the ...
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Network Unclaimed intel wifi 6 AX210/AX201 ubuntu 16.04
For a project i needed to work on ubuntu 16.04, unfortunately i cant access wifi rn i'm using usb tethering for internet but for project in need wifi.
I tried to manually update 5.1 as for these ...
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How to confine Wi-Fi driver to use IEEE 802.11ac mode and lower?
I have a notebook with wi-fi chip that supports IEEE 802.11ax as most. Below is lspci output.
5d:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX210/AX211/AX411 160MHz (rev 1a)
And when I used ...
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MT9721K wireless adapter Drivers randomly stop working on debian and ubuntu based systems
After a certain amount of uptime, the OS is irreversably unable to detect the wireless adapter (MT7921K in this case). I previously "fixed" this by restoring the original Windows 11 install ...
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How to Inject a .ko Driver into a Linux ISO?
I'm currently working on a project where I need to inject a .ko (kernel object) driver into a Linux ISO (CentOS). I've been trying to find a way to do this, but I haven't been successful so far.
Here'...
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How to correctly map the express keys on my Huion H950P drawing tablet?
I am using a Huion H950P USB drawing tablet on Manjaro Linux (KDE, Kernel 6.1.31).
As a driver I installed the digimend-kernel-drivers-dkms from the AUR I also use the official kcm-wacomtablet package ...
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How to install xhci_hcd driver after accidentally deleting it?
I accidentally deleted xhci_hcd driver after trying to install realtek usb network driver.
I found out about it When I connected the Hub and it didn't recognized by the OS, so using dmesg command, I ...
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Linux Kernel Memory Leak with Mediatek mt76x0u USB WiFi Chipset Related to skbuff_head_cache
I am running Linux 6.1 on a 32-bit ARM Microchip SAMA5D27 processor. The board has 256 MB of RAM. I am attaching a USB dongle to the board with the Mediatek mt76x0u chipset.
On bootup I use SystemD to ...
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How can I diagnose a software "stuck" mouse button?
I'm running arch on a Lenovo X1 Carbon. I can go about using it mornally, usually for a day or two but at some point my mouse buttons become "stuck" in the software (though I suppose it ...
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How can "glfw error 65543" be fixed?
After updating my drivers to the latest version available (nvidia 525.116.04) multiple apps are broken, such as KiTTY and Minecraft. They both have variations on this error:
[glfw error 65543]: GLX: ...
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Unloading KMS driver / Replacing NVIDIA Linux drivers without rebooting
In the past you could trivially replace NVIDIA proprietary drivers on the fly after switching to the text console, killing X.org and unloading (rmmod) the appropriate NVIDIA modules, and installing ...
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Wi-Fi drivers cause a stream of error messages on Void Linux
I installed a Void Linux partition on my Macbook Air and needed the Broadcom Wi-Fi drivers to enable Wi-Fi. I used the script found here to install them, but after installation when I boot into the ...
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Arch Linux can't detect drives after update without reboot
After I do updates with pacman -Syu, I always have this annoying problem that I can't connect any new USB devices (External hard drive, USB to serial etc.) to my computer until I reboot.
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Is it possible to reactivate (not reload) a driver from running kernel?
Struggling with some devices often not functioning upon suspend, I came across the SE U&L question of reloading drivers.
In my case, a few devices are not detected, and I can see the driver (...
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Does every USB device have a vendor id and product id?
I have a random speaker and I want to develop a driver for it so I can report statistics, battery, etc to the dev file system. However, I'm having a hard time finding the speaker's vendor and device ...
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hub 6-0:1.0: config failed, hub doesn't have any ports!
AMD CPU:
green kernel: usb usb6: We don't know the algorithms for LPM for this host, disabling LPM.
green kernel: usb usb6: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0003, bcdDevice= 6.02
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Failed to unload kernel module: Resource temporarily unavailable
I am working on an embedded Linux (kernel-5.10.24).
I hit an error when I tried to unload RTC driver module, it was:
# lsmod
rtc_test 6490 1 - Live 0xc02f5000
# modprobe -r rtc_test
modprobe: remove '...
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What is the reason for: ERROR Transfer event TRB DMA ptr not part of current TD
I enabled xhci debugging via echo -n 'module xhci_hcd =p' > /sys/kernel/debug/dynamic_debug/control according to lore.kernel.org/lkml/55B228A4.2020604.
The off-by-one-error mentioned there has been ...
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