Most of these distros are binary based, i.e., they are compiled for generic hardware. They detect the hardware and load the appropriate driver modules. what i am trying to say is, between the time their kernel was compiled and now, drivers for newer hardware may have been written and to use those drivers you need to either update your kernel via the package manager or if that doesn't do the job then compile the latest kernel.
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Sanjay Arora <sanjay.k.ar...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 9:51 PM, chandrakant kumar <k.03chan...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > Drivers are the part of kernel not the distro. As per my knowledge all > > distros use same kernel with some custom patches. If you want support > > for latest hardware, download the latest kernel source from kernel.org > > and compile it. > > > > Sure....drivers are now mostly kernel loadable modules. But, drivers are > written for particular hardware and need to be included in the distro, for > it to support that hardware. > > Earlier, they used to be in kernel, now dynamically loaded as kernel > modules, but the responsibility to include them still rests with the > distros. > _______________________________________________ > Ilugd mailing list > Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
