On Sun, 28 Mar 2021 18:10:52 +1100 terryc <ter...@woa.com.au> wrote:
> > Back in ascii, there was a program "update-pciids" which you could run > to ensure you had could run to ensure you had the latest device Ids. > > However, it doesn't appear in the programs for beowulf (amd64) > It is part of pciutils, and is available on beowulf. > > You didn't say which laptop/model you have. > Ubuntu seems to have connections where it can provide drivers for > certain laptops/models. You may have just lucked upon one that it so > does. > The laptop may be an odd ball with weird components requiring a patch or two. I have an old one here for which the display stopped working properly since Buster/Beowulf, as the support for the screen eventually got removed from Xorg. To be fair, it's not a good hardware at all and nobody actually uses the thing. So maybe ubuntu has a patch for Steve's specific laptop?
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