Re: How do I find what drivers are installed
On 30/06/2015, The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On 06/29/2015 at 11:59 AM, Bret Busby wrote:
>
<snip>
>> However, after having written that, I think that the web page at
>> https://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/DRM_I915.html
>> indicates that laptop computers with an Intel i7 CPU, should be
>> compatible with the i915 chipset (?) or modules(?), and thus, the
>> existing, installed, driver for the Intel graphics controller, is
>> the appropriate one for the Intel Haswell graphics controller?
>
> If you look into the details, that Web page indicates that support is
> present from kernel 2.6.36 onwards. That would seem to imply that it is
> not present earlier. What kernel version are you running? ('uname -r'
> would be the command.)
>
"
root@bret-av3-772g-deb6:~# uname -a
Linux bret-av3-772g-deb6 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Jun 17 16:09:06 UTC
2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux
root@bret-av3-772g-deb6:~#
"
and, in having just ran
apt-get update
and
apt-get upgrade
no later kernel version is shown as being available.
But, anyway, as indicated in my last post, I have gived up. After
about two years of trying to get it working.
:(
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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